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Ildefonso Escribano de la Torre was born in Villanueva de Alcardete (Toledo) in 1933 and has been a missionary in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) since shortly after singing Mass in 1959. He lives in a favela in his parish.<\/p>\n

Father Ildefonso Escribano has joined \u201cHumanists of the eBible\u201d for the poetic and spiritual value of his work. His poetry is full of originality, both in its experimentation with form and in its mystical and humanistic content. His life is also an example of dedication to the most disadvantaged.<\/p>\n

Ildefonso describes his life in these terms:<\/p>\n

\u201cSince I was ordained a priest, I left as a missionary and have been living ever since in the troubled favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the underworld of our city, where wheat and weeds grow together. It was Karl Marx who said that in history, as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life. In the favela, life struggles hand-to-hand with death.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt confirms my faith and brings me great joy to hear Pope Francis urging the Church to go out to the existential and geographical peripheries of our society. That is where I am and where I have been all my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing poor, living with them, sharing their suffering, witnessing so many struggles and failures. And in the midst of all that turmoil, being a presence of the Gospel. That is the great challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy verses are cries of faith born of the helplessness (and also the resistance) I feel in the face of a reality that is beyond my strength.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cConfess with your lips, believe with your heart, testify with your hands. You cannot mutilate that process. This is a path of no return.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite everything, drugs, violence, death, God still has a place in the favelas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With the sound of bullets and guns in the background, Ildefonso writes poetry full of spirit and beauty. The mystical feeling captured in his books has not been savored in seclusion, but in his apostolate among the poorest of Rio de Janeiro. That is why he asks God several times the same question that Jesus asked on the cross: \u201cWhy have you forsaken me?\u201d Ildefonso Escribano has given his life to the abandoned, to those \u201cleft by the hand of God,\u201d as he says we say in La Mancha. But he has comforted, educated, and fed them. In this way, he has cultivated his faith, hope, and charity, doing \u201cworks, works,\u201d as St. Teresa said.<\/p>\n

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M\u00e1s all\u00e1 de la noche<\/em> (Beyond the Night), published in Mendaur in 2011, is a mystical book. In this book of poetry, man only loves when he empties himself completely, and God fills the soul in proportion to the degree of renunciation. The flame of love in Ildefonso Escribano is dedication to apostolic work so that God may be recognized and loved by all readers. This mystical experience is accompanied by the power of the word, no longer a mere representative object, but a call to love and to experience time transformed into the enjoyment of the moment.<\/p>\n

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