Daneo Human & Spiritual Developm

Paul Daneo was an 18th century man whose intense interest and actions
around human suffering and its profound meaningfulness, has applications
for us today. His theological reflections brought a powerful and positive
image of how God is drawn to us in our brokenness and how we can unite
our suffering to His. This brings light and life out of darkness and death. Thus the memory of suffering (memoria passionis) becomes a memory of life or resurrection (memoria resurrectionis.)

As we reflect on these themes we come to see the cross as God's solidarity
with men and women, young and old, in the condition of human suffering .

And so the cross enters the history of love. Paul Daneo referred to the cross
as an unfathomable sea of Divine Love . In this the traveller can find hope, a
hope that draws us out of cruel despair. Hope in the face of self-rejection
transfigures the meaning of the sufferer's torments.

Hope is the sensation that the last word does not belong to the brutality of
facts with their oppression and repression. It is the suspicion that reality is
far more complex than realism would have us believe, that the frontiers of
the possible are not determined by the limits of the present, and that,
miraculously and surprisingly, life is readying the creative event that will
open the way to freedom and resurrection. (Rubem Alves)

Daneo Services is a hope based initiative that seeks to embrace the radical
implications of the memoria passionis particularly as it translates itself in the
lives of those plagued by despair. We seek to be a project of love that strives
to draw hope and resurrection from within the face of human suffering. We
work to integrate the strengths of psychotherapy and healthy religion.