RUTI Carlo (Father)
Rome, 4 July 1937 - Genzano di Roma, 17 July 2021 (Italy)
Fr Carlo was accustomed to the liveliness of the youth of the school and of the ‘Santa Rosa’ parish on the outskirts of Rome. ‘Roman by birth’ like them, he was frank, almost surly sometimes. He could at the same time show respect towards his superiors and engage in bitter discussions. He was an invaluable guide during Summer youth camps in Orvinio, then a solitary shepherd on the Sabine mountains (a region north of Rome). With his face tanned by the sun and his unmissable black cassock, he devoted himself to the little flocks of the faithful who still lived in the villages scattered on the slopes of that land, who had experienced a phase of depopulation while able to give birth to a modern saint, Saint Agostina Pietrantoni of Pozzaglia, the parish of Father Carlo.
A sort of ‘lone wolf’ but a sincere religious and a Betharramite ‘at heart’, Father Carlo lived out the mission as a “missio ad gentes”, from the periphery, with courage, in accordance with a poor and fundamental lifestyle and with serene and total devotion.
Thus Father Franco and Father Carlo met each other again on the way to the Father’s house, where they could tell each other about their life experiences and about their pastoral ministries before enjoying together the reward reserved for faithful servants whom He called and who had always simply answered: “Here I Am!”.
Fr. Piero Trameri SCJ
Regional Vicar in Italy
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