Don Guanella allowed himself to be grasped by the essential vision of the Gospel from a young age: God is a provident Father and merciful, who treats man as a son, object of his care and gifts, even more so if he is weak and in need: "God the Father is as rich as a sea, which as many waters it receives as it scatters to the earth and never diminishes. God the Father rewards you for the services you provide to him and looks at you with kindness, as if he had only you in mind. this resembles the sun, which is in the middle of the sky and sends its light and its heat both to the mountain and to the plain, to the rock and to the sea, and looks at everyone and at the same time directs its rays to you, as if he only had to provide for you" (Don Guanella).
In Don Guanella's thought, every person's life is one love story between God the Father and his children. Every man, even the most humble and needy, is called to be part of the Family of God. And thus Don Guanella's field of intervention is clearly outlined: orphans or street children, the elderly, the mentally disabled, who Don Guanella calls 'Good Sons' and all those who risk marginalization or are considered 'rejects' of humanity.
To God who is solicitous with his Providence lthe man replies with faith, prayer, trust in God Providence and with the commitment to become a Good Samaritan towards those who lie wounded on the sidelines of the road of life.
Pedagogy of his two religious families is summed up in a simple binomial: giving "Bread and Lord" to all. “Bread”: as attention to the human promotion of the person, to his physical, intellectual, psychological and social development. “Lord”: with a watchful eye also on the irrepressible needs of his spirituality, to be cultivated to that maturity to which each one is called both in the relationship with God and in society.
