{"id":113096,"date":"2020-04-06T19:35:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fraterinternacional.org\/?p=113096"},"modified":"2020-04-06T19:35:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:35:07","slug":"the-man-who-donates-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fraterinternacional.org\/en\/the-man-who-donates-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Donates Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a silent work, like an ant, he started writing letters to libraries in S\u00e3o Paulo, offering books by Jos\u00e9 Trigueirinho Netto. Twenty-five years later, the number of his selfless actions is impressive because of its magnitude and reach. Since he began and up until December of 2019, he has <strong>donated 52,000 books and 7,011 recordings to 3,183 libraries in Brazil and in 35 countries<\/strong> on all continents, but as he himself explains: \u201cnot all, there is one exception, Antarctica.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This man who acts almost anonymously is Domingos Scatena. Today he is retired and widowed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"O homem que doa livros\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HdP0psPtzRk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:20px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When asked what motivated him to begin this work, he simply responds: \u201cI really liked the books of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trigueirinho.org.br\/\"><strong>Trigueirinho<\/strong><\/a> and felt everyone should come into contact with his work. I didn\u2019t have a definate \u201caha.\u201d I only felt that I had to do something. I realized that these teachings should be made available to more people. But how to do this dissemination? In the beginning I thought about buying a vehicle and going out to distribute the books to the libraries of Brazil,\u201d he remembers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He didn\u2019t buy the car and drive off\u2026 He chose a more simple strategy: he investigated and wrote letters to all the Brazilian municipalities with more than ten thousand inhabitants, offering the works of Trigueirinho and other authors published by the Irdin Editora. He had the help of his Spanish wife, who translated the letters into her mother tongue, and of some collaborators of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irdin.org.br\/site\/\"><strong>Irdin Editora<\/strong><\/a>, who would point him to people who could open the way and facilitate access to libraries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scatena met Trigueirinho only twice throughout his campaign. But for him, Trigueirinho is a benchmark. An example of honesty and of taking a firm position. \u201cTo listen to his talks, for me, has the same significance as going to mass. It always brings up important and good things to move forward with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In those 25 years, many things changed. The emergence of technologies makes it possible to access the works of Trigueirinho and all the other authors of the Irdin Editora through the internet. Besides books in Portuguese, Spanish, English, and other languages, the\u00a0Irdin\u00a0catalogue has more than 3,000 recorded live talks, DVDs, and flash drives of music and instructions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In spite of the changes, Scatena continues to write his letters to the libraries. Now his focus is Brazilian municipalities with nine thousand inhabitants and under. He continues committed to this mission that he chose for himself. The results? They appear in little stories that reach him. Like the story of a girl that read a book by Trigueirinho in a library in S\u00e3o Paulo and today is active in a Light-Community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fraterinternacional.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bastidores-video-escatena-ffhi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-112836 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fraterinternacional.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bastidores-video-escatena-ffhi.jpg\" alt=\"Domingos Escatena - o homem que doa livros\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fraterinternacional.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bastidores-video-escatena-ffhi-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.fraterinternacional.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bastidores-video-escatena-ffhi-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fraterinternacional.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bastidores-video-escatena-ffhi-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.fraterinternacional.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bastidores-video-escatena-ffhi-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.fraterinternacional.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bastidores-video-escatena-ffhi-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.fraterinternacional.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bastidores-video-escatena-ffhi.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0As a learning experience, he points that his ability to organize has improved, his maturing in understanding what he can or cannot do if he did not have the available resources. In his words, what really matters is that he continues to do everything \u201cwith a lot of willingness, a lot of joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, it was his wife who chose the excerpt from a book that is included with all the reports that he sends to the Irdin Editora. There could not be a better definition for this silent work that he does:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn the same way that a bird sings just to sing, because this is one way of glorifying Life, an evolutionary group work, a service, must not have any external objective, but to follow inner indications and use the instruments that each one has to praise and with joy, offer oneself to the Creator,\u201d (from the book \u2018A Time for Healing\u2019 \u2013 Trigueirinho).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a silent work, like an ant, he started writing letters to libraries in S\u00e3o Paulo, offering books by Jos\u00e9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":112844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v21.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Man Who Donates Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a silent work, like an ant, he started writing letters to libraries in S\u00e3o Paulo, offering books by Jos\u00e9 Trigueirinho Netto. 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