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Bret Thoman

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Bret Thoman has a master’s degree in Italian from Middlebury College, a BA from the University of Georgia, and a certificate in Franciscan Studies. He is an FAA-licensed pilot and flew professionally for six years logging over 3,500 hours of flight time. After leaving flying, Bret started organizing and accompanying tours to Italy for St. Francis Pilgrimages, the company he founded in 2004.

Bret has written numerous articles, eight books and translated a dozen more from Italian to English.

He spends his free time reading, watching films, sailing in the Adriatic Sea, hiking anywhere off-road, and wiping noses

Bret lives in Loreto, Italy with his wife and three children.

He can be contacted at: bret.thoman@gmail.com

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“« Je suis âgé de presque 80 ans, et ma journée va bientôt se terminer. Si je jette un regard sur mon passé, je reconnais que dans ma première jeunesse j'ai pris un mauvais chemin : celui du mal qui m'a conduit à la ruine ; j'ai été influencé par la presse, les spectacles et les mauvais exemples que la plupart des jeunes suivent sans réfléchir, mais je ne m'en souciais pas. J'avais auprès de moi des personnes croyantes et pratiquantes, mais je ne faisais pas attention à elles, aveuglé par une force brutale qui me poussait sur une route mauvaise. À vingt ans j'ai commis un crime passionnel, dont le seul souvenir me fait encore frémir aujourd'hui.
Marie Goretti, qui est aujourd'hui une sainte, a été le bon ange que la Providence avait mis devant mes pas. Dans mon cœur j'ai encore l'impression de ses paroles de reproche et de pardon. Elle a prié pour moi, intercédé pour moi, son assassin.
Trente ans de prison ont suivi. Si je n'avais pas été mineur, j'aurais été condamné à vie. J'ai accepté la sentence méritée ; j'ai expié ma faute avec résignation. Marie a été vraiment ma lumière, ma protectrice ; avec son aide j'ai acquis un bon comportement et j'ai cherché à vivre de façon honnête lorsque la société m'a accepté à nouveau parmi ses membres. Avec une charité séraphique, les fils de saint François, les Frères mineurs capucins des Marches, m'ont accueilli parmi eux non comme un serviteur, mais comme un frère. C'est avec eux que je vis depuis 1936.
Et maintenant j'attends avec sérénité le moment où je serai admis à la vision de Dieu, où j'embrasserai de nouveau ceux qui me sont chers, où je serai près de mon ange gardien et de sa chère maman, Assunta.
Puissent ceux qui liront ma lettre en tirer l'heureuse leçon de fuir dès l'enfance le mal et de suivre le bien. Qu'ils pensent que la religion avec ses préceptes n'est pas une chose dont on puisse se passer, mais qu'elle est le vrai réconfort, la seule voie sûre dans toutes les circonstances, même les plus douloureuses de la vie.
Paix et bien ! »

(Alessandro Serenelli, testament autographe, 5 mai 1961).”
Bret Thoman, St. Maria Goretti: A Journey into Forgiveness and Redemption

“Often God’s will and plans are not revealed immediately. They are worked out in time and understood in prayer and discernment (as well as in facts and circumstances).”
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