Daniele growing
There was an interesting study last night in the cell group, where someone was present who had been in Catholic religious orders for 9 years (as a Jesuit, as a monk, and in other forms); he is now studying theology at Trento, but believes after having read Luther and other Protestant theologians that the Catholic teachings miss the mark. The Chinese lady who has been witnessing to her priest friend (who goes back to China on Saturday) was very surprised and encouraged to meet him, and see that God does indeed change peoples’ thinking, despite what seems to be the case with her friend.
In the family, Daniele has been arriving at some milestones in his life. On Tuesday he turned five months, and the next day had a programmed check up in which everything is still going fine. Then today there was his second set of vacinations, and he didn’t react at all when he got the needle. (It is not how I remember vacinations in my childhood – they hurt!) Then today he had his first real food – a couple of weeks earlier than what is recommended, but it works out better this way with Pinuccia working now. In any case, we have seen in the past few weeks that he was very interested in eating, following the food or trying to grab at the cutlery when he was close to other people eating. And in fact he loved the meal that Pinuccia prepared for him, and ate almost a whole plate. I remember that it took a while for Stefania to get used to the new diet, and would only eat a couple of spoonfulls without much enthusiasm.