This document summarizes the path and activities taken from January 2018 to August 2018 regarding a project focused on migration. It discusses focusing on four verbs from Pope Francis: accept, protect, promote, and integrate. Initiatives included changing perspectives on migrants, purifying vocabulary, restoring hope to migrants, engaging with migrant workers, and focusing on homeless people without shelter or school. The summary concludes with reflecting on a song about migration through prayer and meditation.

1. ATTACHMENT
Here is the path taken from January 2018 to today, regarding the project "For a common
home in the diversity of peoples". We can all feel we are an active part of this project and
really commit ourselves to a world "home of all", "home for all!".
We focused on four other verbs indicated by Pope Francis in the message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees:
"Accept, protect, promote, and integrate".
With the beginning of Lent, we proposed making a practical exercise: to change our gaze regarding migrants. Change
our gaze inside and outside the community! Remove from our eyes every prejudice, every attitude of condemnation,
rejection or indifference.
With purified gaze toward our migrant brothers and sisters and the commitment of true and sincere listening to their
sufferings and difficulties, we took a further step: the purification of our vocabulary!
In the Easter atmosphere, the invitation was to restore hope to a migrant or migrant family and transform their
experience of darkness and uncertainty into a moment of grace, blessing, resurrection.
Month dedicated to Mary Help of Christians; open to the action of the Holy Spirit, we desired to set out once again, and
we went to migrant people (or with stories of migration) who work in our places.
On the 150th anniversary of the consecration of the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians, which made us hear the voice of
Our Lady: "This is my house, from here my glory!", we committed ourselves to think about homeless people without a
roof , but also without another house called a school: our children, teenagers, girls and boys.
We let ourselves be guided by a video clip by Fiorella Mannoia, a song to listen to, to "watch", to "read", to meditate ...
entitled "It's not a movie". I hope that all the FMA were able to know the content of this song and live a moment of
prayer with eyes focused on those who are forced to migrate, on those who die in the desert or the sea, on those who
are rejected or find the ports closed, on those who see hope beyond a barbed wire but cannot cross it, to those who find
walls not bridges, to those born on the "wrong side" of the planet!
Rome, 14 August 2018.