Good participation in the evening on Father David Maria Turoldo. Tuesday 22 in Sant’Antonio for Cantiere Speranza.
At the introductionand Riccardo Calvo recalled the 30th anniversary of the great’s death theologian, writer, poet, member of the order of the Servants of Mary; and in Casale the Servites worked in Torcello di Rolasco and among them Father Bernardino Zanella, perhaps the one who was the first to denounce the pollution of Eternit (where forty years ago he was a worker priest, ed).
For Turoldo, research always combined with history remains current to show us paths to peace and the future: Quote: “No one should kill hope, because every man is an infinite possibility” The evening opened with the church in the dark to listen to the Musical Chapel of the Cathedral conducted by Anna Maria Figazzolo (on the organ Matteo Camagna). All texts by Turoldo open from the hymn “O Redeemer of man, descend,/
come and reveal the mystery of God:/
what is hidden in a heart of flesh,/
how much he loves our nature…
The lights then turned on on the reading proposed by Theater Collective (title “You feel that it is too much …”). Mini scenography, lights, intense interpretation with an excellent choice of immense material made it an intense “show”, in our opinion to be repeated alone in the theatre.
We start with Turoldo’s childhood (lots of polenta and…imagination, using the story ‘I was not a boy’), then the beginning of studies and the priesthood (with a testimony from Camillo De Piaz). Poems: No longer a man – Fears – Towards the desert – So I oscillate between pity and fury – I have no hands.
The arrival in Milan and support for the Resistance. The meeting with Cardinal Schuster and the homilies in the Cathedral from which emerges its relationship to the Gospel. Poems: Let’s go back to the days of risk – Send, Lord, more prophets.
Initiatives of the ‘Mass of charity’ in San Carlo al Corso in Milan in which he wants to lead assisted persons to economic and spiritual self-sufficiency and for this purpose he intervenes, with the donations collected, in favor of cases of particular poverty, which are examined and then presented on the last Sunday of each month, the Domenica della Carità, involvement with Nomadelfia.
The clashes with the ecclesiastical apparatus, expulsion from Milan and exile, until the return to Italy and the making of the film ‘The last ones’. Poems: Feel that it’s too much – Letter to Christmas (From the Mont Blanc bridge in Geneva) – I make your death bitter too.
Finally, the choice of Sotto il Monte and the years of illness. Poems: In autumn alone, in Varenna – Barely Nothing – Yesterday, at the ninth hour… –
In closing the report of Armando Bonaiuto director of “Turin spirituality” and the words of the bishop mgr. John Sacchi (flanked by the bishop emeritus monsignor Luciano Pacomio and the rector of Crea monsignor Mancinelli)
The next
For Cantiere Speranza-Crescere con la parole the next appointment is on 11 January in the Sala Cavalla of the Seminar with prof. Steers.
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PHOTO. The Musical Chapel on the organ of Sant’Antonio (photo Luigi Angelino)