"This book is a Molotov cocktail." Words publisher Giuliano Ladolfi. Tuesday evening, the auditorium of the College "Don Bosco" in Borgomanero, was presented "He is risen - the luxury we can not afford to be sad" with which the director of the Salesians, Giuliano Palizzi, has developed four themes: faith, God, Church and joy. Were the teacher Giovanni Campagnoli, the catechist Daniela Sardano, Mayor Anna Tinivella and poet Milena Simonotti confronted with the same Don Giuliano on these topics that also have been the focus of a series of questions-video that Mario Metti , president of Mamre, addressed to borgomaneresi and not.
The meeting was enriched by the music of Antonio Dreams on sax, it was moderated by the professor Ladolfi and introduced precisely to Put; of this work proceeds will go to the shelter for women in distress "Small Bartholomew", apartment for homeless men in Via Matteotti and the new project of the mother-child community "Casa Irene" to be built in via Republic in Borgomanero . "There are many forms of poverty that await our response, awaiting justice. This is a special night - showed the same Metti - how special is the author that every Sunday, the homily of the Mass at 11:15 in college, shows us the way forward. He speaks of the Gospel of joy and love in a language that looks a lot like that of Pope Francis. "
Palizzi recalled that the contributions collected in the book have already been published by the journal of the Sanctuary of Mary Help of Christians (the 'team orders was cause "), and then suddenly he spoke about faith:" It is all that we do not understand, it meets someone who deserves our trust. But when I was a boy at the center seemed to be only sin and fear of God's punishment; mercy I discovered only after many years. " Moreover - he noted - for a long page of the adulteress, and that the Pharisees wanted to stone Jesus saved, was not even included in the Gospel of John.
"When I go to Rome - he has taken - I always stop in Campo de 'Fiori where Giordano Bruno was burned alive. I do the same in Florence where he was killed Girolamo Savonarola them paid with their lives for saying the things which everyone recognized. Confirmation that what are called "heretics" are often just people early, born with a few centuries prior to the understanding and acceptance of their reflections. Jesus himself is not finished on the cross for what he had done, but for the new image of God that has given us. "
Sardano asked Palizzi advice on how to introduce young people to the faith. "You can take them - he responded religious - where there is no mercy. There, you can be sure, there is God. And then it goes debunked all quell'iconografia of a Jesus beautiful, with green eyes. I assure you that as soon as I ask the afterlife to St. Peter also to meet the inventor of the confessional. He just want to know if you ever read the parable of the prodigal son ... Ah, then I'd like to know how do you give the prayer, which is conversation with God, as penance .... " Tinivella, however, has pointed the finger of Pharisees and tax collectors: "Who are the first and who the second in our modern world?".
"The Pharisees - so don Giuliano - people are prepared, who knows theology; are those who know how to behave God. For a while 'was Peter also that he might wash the feet of Jesus. The publicans, on the contrary, they understood that faith is something to be experienced every day. Here there are two types of Churches. One focused on the celebration of the rites and the processions, and another, more humble, for example, is dedicated to welcome the migrants. " And finally the "joy": "For me - he concluded - is to keep the heart everything. I admit it: in my life I even crossed
times when I came to think he was a bit 'abandoned by God. But later I realized that those were difficult times I served as a preparation. "
Sums has pulled the Provost of Borgomanero Piero Cerutti: "Intellectual charity has personified Don Julian, the temporal Mario. A duet that awaits other players. " And Tuesday 21 at 20.45, at the Franciscan convent of the Friars Minor of Mount Mesma of Ameno, new presentation of "He is risen". Invited by the ecumenical religious culture "City of God", will dialogue Palizzi and Metti