The singer Andrea Bocelli and his wife expressed their faith into a jotting on their daughter’s “joyful commitment. The note affirms the whole of life with unprecedented strength.”
Popular Italian singer Andrea Bocelli has a powerful faith that he is happy to share with the world like his music.
On the occasion of his youngest daughter’s First Holy Communion, Bocelli and his wife, Veronica, shared the celebration with his fans on social media.
The singer shared a letter that he and his wife had written to their daughter for the occasion. While you read the letter, you will understand how life can lead as simple and faithful to God.
Here is the translation of the letter:
It is a celebration, it is a joyful commitment that affirms with unprecedented strength the whole of life: the earthly one, which accompanies you today in your springtime as you blossom, and which besides you will remain in the seasons to come; the otherworldly one, of the heavenly Father who has willed to remain beside us and who does not abandon us.
Dear Virginia, how much grace (divine and earthly) filled this day when you approached the Sacrament of Communion for the first time! That smile that lit you up tells us how you yourself perfectly understood the sweet responsibility and the reason for the great joy that this rite encloses and gives us: “communion,” a wonderful word, communion with the world, in which we are brothers, communion with heaven, whose children we are.
Because, as Pope Francis reminds us, making First Communion means “growing in friendship with Jesus and desiring that others may also enjoy the joy he wants to give us.”
The Bocellis’ letter is not only faith-filled, but it’s also inspiring for any other parents wondering how to make their child’s Holy Communion that extra bit special.
Our congratulations and prayers to Virginia, and to others receiving their First Communion!
(This article is an adaptation from Aletia)