« Here goes a request of a man with no house to live and no place to hid from the rain and without a family, but I?ve got a big family now.
When somebody called me: « Fellow, I heard about a lady Mary who gives us food. Let?s go there so that we can eat! », I said: « Where in this world does somebody remember of miserable poor like us to feed us? ». And he said: « There?s more: she gives clothes as well. They say it?s a very nice place. I won?t die of hunger. » He insisted so much that I finally went there. Then, when I saw, it was the house where the poor go there and eat very well.
This place is a piece of glut, affection and tenderness, where everybody wash hands and pray before eating. I didn?t know how to pray, but I?ve learnt quickly. When I got out of there, I thought: « Can it be that I am dead and God is taking care of me? » The next day I went back there: the same thing again.
On 11th January this year I felt ill inside Mary?s House and vomited blood. The Maries1 were serving, but they left everything and came to help me. One Mary called Samu2, it seems it was raining a lot; he stayed with me all the time. He took care of me while the others served. I had to stay in a hospital for one month.
I?m already back to my Mary?s House. I sleep in the streets, but I?m no more hungry or cold, because Mary?s House exists.
I don?t have a piece of paper, that?s why I write here3. May the world see this letter I write to Mary. I am a beggar, nobody listen to me, but there is much love in the depth of the donors? heart, so that a house like that can exist. God bless this house and all the Maries who help. In my prayer, at night, I say: « God, take care of Mary?s Houses and all the donors. »
Amen
Beggar
1 « Maries » are the volunteers who work in Beth Myriam. People who are fed there call every one of them « Mary ».
2 Samu is a mobile health care service for emergencies. It seems that the beggar thinks that Samu is a person, maybe the doctor who helped him.
