Castelplanio / “Sul Monte”, a reference point for 36 years

The Vallesina Spirituality Center celebrated its thirty-year activity: “We would like to continue to seek together the meaning of things with the Gospel in hand”

Castelplanio, July 5, 2022 – A intense afternoon that of Sunday 3 July, al Spirituality Center “On the Mountain”run by the sisters who worship the Precious Blood, for the celebration of 36 years of activity in Vallesina.

«And the occasion – every first Sunday in July – is always that of thanking those who collaborate And who participates. And there are always many people“.

In church of the Crucifixadjacent to Center, is went on stage“Wolves time … it takes a lamb” with the presence of a poet, Antonio Cerquarellithe dancer Noemi Donati, there violinist Sara Tittarelli and the reader Aurora Tittarelli, Michele Luminari to the sax and transverse flutemusic teacher.

From the parish priest don Mariano Piccotti read the words of Pope francesco at the time ofrage of the pandemicthe March 27, 2020 in St. Peter’s Square.

Noemi Donati, Aurora and Sara Tittarelli

For weeks it seems that evening has fallen. Dense darkness has thickened over our squares, streets and citiesyes. I am take over our lives filling all of a deafening silence and a bleak emptinessthat paralyzes everything in its path: it is felt in the air, it is felt in the gestures, looks say so. We found ourselves frightened and lost. As the disciples of the Gospel we have been caught off guard by an unexpected and furious storm. We realized we were in the same boatall fragile And bewilderedbut at the same time important And necessaryall called to row togetherall needing to comfort each other. On this boat… we are all there. Like those disciples, who speak with one voice and in anguish they say “We are lost”Like this we too have realized that we cannot go on each on his own, but only together“.

The expression time of wolves – has explained Sister Anna Maria Vissanidirector of the Center e counselor for couples in difficultyindicates bad weather, stormy. It comes from a classic wolf behaviorwhich, during the coldest period of winter in which prey is scarce, they go down to the valley or in the near inhabited centers in search of food. One hundred million people forced to flee, millions of deaths from the pandemicDozens of wars in the world not only in Ukraine, economic recession, hunger, fearin short words… wolf weather“.

Very intense moment there reading the poem by Antonio Cerquarelli, The dance of the castawayof which we report some excerpts:

Brother it’s late, it’s time to set sail,

the sky shatters beyond infinity;

a gust of hope

guide my gaze,

the sun goes out in the cerulean sea …

… Lord You only know, You only feel, You only see

my suffering and my joy together,

my illusion changes

that becomes music and fragrance

like freshly baked bread:

my dance!

You sure will be with me tonight

and tomorrow … and tomorrow again

to lead the white sail

on my prow, to the song of the dawn.

Following the musical piece “Why are you sleeping oh my Lord?” with touching words by don Mariano Piccotti set to music from Giordano Tittarelli (president of Astralmusic) and the dancer Noemi Donati who danced on the words of the text.

Introduced by Sister Anna Maria Vissani, the history of Santa Maria De Mattiasfounder of the congregation of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, “her whole life was uninterrupted restlessness of his heart. A healthy and holy restlessness who pushed her to meet Christ, Lamb meek and immolated, in a society – that of the nineteenth century – even then so violent. She, brave womanmade his life place of peace and reconciliation. During the last hours of sickness and pain, the tapping of a chisel. A man works to put the stones on the pavement of the Street. The sisters would like stop it so that it does not disturb the agony of the dying person. But she does a sign of prohibition: leave him alone while he earn bread for his family! And in the meantime his beating marks the hours and minutes left before the Match“.

“We don’t know what happened in those last hours in the heart of Marybut we imagine it like this, weak in body and strong in soulbecause his restless heart had by now found peace in his God“.

Much intense reading played by the young Aurora Tittarelli who, accompanied by the violin from his sister Sara has, as in one sort of prayerpraised the Lord by calling him several times “My spouse”.

Then a convivial moment for all friends in splendid panoramic garden of the Spirituality Center.

“We would like to continue to look for the meaning of things together... with the Gospel in hand – Don Mariano underlined -, activating the collaboration of all. This is for us synodality“.

Cristina Amici degli Elci

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