What if one day you received a package with a diary and a letter that said, "I have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. I am going to die"? That's what happened to Lucia. One day she received the diary of Teresa, a childhood friend, who was suffering from a life-threatening illness. Through these intimate pages, Lucia discovered how Teresa was coping with her illness, the questions and feelings that assailed her and the reflections that came to her about life itself.
Teresa writes that she no longer needs to write in order to vent; now she has Someone with Whom she can talk: God. She's at peace with God, she's not alone, and she's not afraid to meet the Lord. But there is something that worries her: the final exam. It is one about love. It's the most important examination in life, and she wants to be prepared for it. For this to happen, the Lord has to find her loving. Will she pass?
Teresa finds her mother crying in the living room. She can't take it any more. She is tired and, moreover, her mom is crying because of her. How can she cope with this situation? Only He will be able to sustain them. To suffer and to be joyful are not opposites: it is possible thanks to Him. Heroic virtue is to give a little more.
Teresa's friend visits her and breaks unexpected news: she has a religious vocation. How does Teresa take it? This news will give Teresa a new way of seeing things that she didn't have before.
This moment had to arrive. Teresa caved in. She feels very sorry and knows that what she did was wrong. And all this just to be, even for a second, who she used to be. She succeeded, but at what price? Yet, Teresa discovers that God’s mercy is always there to run to: you go to confession and you get back up again.
Teresa returns to class after a few weeks and discovers that "her friends" don't treat her the same way. In fact, they disdain her. Teresa is no longer into the same things and her friends know it. A girl in class who she used to pick on begins to talk to her. In these conversations she discovers that this young woman is a true Christian, that she practices her Faith, and that she genuinely cares about Teresa.
In the diary entry that Lucia reads in this program she discovers that Teresa has begun to see God in creation. In addition, she begins to do mental prayer and to pray the Rosary.
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