{"id":308048,"date":"2021-02-17T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T09:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=308048"},"modified":"2021-02-17T11:59:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T09:59:04","slug":"dialogue-between-a-deafblind-girl-and-a-priest-ask-christ-to-help-me-for-at-least-five-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/dialogue-between-a-deafblind-girl-and-a-priest-ask-christ-to-help-me-for-at-least-five-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialogue between a deafblind girl and a priest: Ask Christ to help me for at least five minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deafblindness is a severe multisensory deficiency that often generates significant communication difficulties, impairs access to information, orientation and mobility.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A dialogue between Father Mirel Ilie, the coordinator of the hearing-impaired community in Bucharest, and a little girl suffering from this condition highlights how complex and sensitive the mission of the priest is:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were at Christmas time, and she asked me in sign language: If you ask Christ for something, can He bring it to me as a gift? I said: Yes, how not? I thought to myself that I would buy her what she wanted, no matter how much it cost.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said to me, \u2018When I sit here in my wheelchair and look at my mother and read on her lips, she prays in tears to Christ, Lord, help my little girl to walk for at least five minutes. Let me run after her and not be able to catch her.\u2019 Please pray Christ to help me for at least five minutes so I can do this, and I promise Christ I won\u2019t cry afterwards that I can\u2019t walk. I\u2019m going to sit back in my wheelchair, but I want to be glad I made my mother happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The story made the clergyman value, even more, the gifts we humans receive from God.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went in the car and cried for a long time, thinking that I was a hypocrite because I don\u2019t thank God for what He gives me and, above all, I can walk, I can see and I can run after my children and have them chase me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deafblindness can be congenital or acquired; the problem is just as complex in one case as in the other. In congenital deafblindness, vision problems can be evident from birth, while hearing impairment can be observed in the child later.<\/p>\n

Photography courtesy of Raluca Ene \/ Basilica.ro<\/p>\n

Read more: A priest\u2019s mission among deaf people: \u201cI can be their voice in the face of daily problems\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow us on Twitter: @BasilicaNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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