Pietro Maso

Very good days.

Last Wednesday, January 20, the Italian weekly magazine “Chi” published an interview with Pietro Maso.

“My name is Pietro Maso. In July I turn 45 years old and I have been in prison for 22 years for having killed my parents on April 17, 1991. I was evil.”

Maso, helped by three accomplices, massacred his parents when they returned from a religious ceremony. The cause was inheritance.

In the interview, Pietro, who in prison had a process of coming closer to faith and found God, says that he also enjoyed the intercession of another pontiff, John Paul II.

“My crime was so horrendous that everyone wanted to erase me, even when I was in jail. Only Monsignor Todeschini, supported by the Pope Juan Pablo IIHe extended a hand to me. Only he defended me against everyone. Even more, the Pope Francisco He has had compassion on me. I wrote him a letter that my spiritual father, Monsignor Guido Todeschini, gave him, and after a few days, the Pope called me by phone. He and Don Guido are holy people.”

It was in 2013 when Maso had written to the Pope saying: “I ask forgiveness for everything I have done, I ask for prayers for my co-workers, who have accepted me despite what I have done, I ask for a prayer for those who work for the peace”.

“It was ten in the morning, and the phone rings. I was with Stefania, my partner, I answer and hear: “I'm Francesco, dad Francesco.” Full of emotion I say out loud: “Holiness.” Then I told him: “The one who went to John's bar with his friends is worth nothing compared to Pietro today, if he had known, he would have behaved well from the beginning.”

Pietro Maso has now decided to radically change his life and dedicate himself to others. Now Maso, he has settled in Spain, in Valencia, because he wants to create there, a house that welcomes those who have made mistakes with society and are on the streets.

“I want to give a different meaning to my life. Only the foreigner understands the foreigner, only the one who has been in prison understands the one who has been in prison, only the one who has made a mistake understands the one who has made a mistake. I am worthless, but this idea deserves more than me.”

Good day.

Priest Gerardo Gómez Villegas is director of the Salesian Work in the city of Los Mochis. Originally from León, Guanajuato, and born on October 3, 1953, he did his first studies at the Salesian seminary in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco; Jalostotitlán, Jal; Zapopan, Jal, and he completed them in Tlaquepaque. His priestly ordination was on December 16, 1978 in the same Tlaquepaque and, later, he obtained a doctorate in Canon Law in the city of Rome at the University of San Juan de Letrán (1984-1987). He has collaborated in Ecclesiastical Courts. He has just finished a Master's Degree in Human Personnel Management at Utel and, for now, he is happily a Mochitense citizen.

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