text: This is among the very best descriptions of the refugee journey I've come across. It is the accompaniment insights and understandings that helps communication to become communion. Encountering the Scalabrinians, and their model of accompaniment was where I first saw what became the icon for the Year of Mercy. Holding that icon of the Year of Mercy in my heart and reading of the work of the JRS is prayerful. JRS resonates with the Scalabrini's historic model of accompaniment that go back to the World Wars... it is Doing what you can do, while leaving others to do what they can do. Always searching out the one excluded, the one ignored, the one abandoned.
  This truly is the Good Shepherd who isn't embarrassed to smell like the sheep, who brings the face of Jesus to those living the Beatitudes.
  Praise God for such love as this.