Appreciation : Fr Arthur Vella SJ

Abstract

Young and old, simple and sophisticated people, priests, male and female religious and married couples, unbelievers, those who had lost their way and were trying to find it again, all were won over, especially by the one quality that stood out above the rest: his sense of acceptance of the person in front of him.

It was a quality foreshadowed in his work on Aquinas so many years back for his doctoral dissertation, ‘Love is acceptance’. This was no sentimental ploy.