In Sesto Calende a week of Lenten spiritual exercises


To get closer to the festivities of the Easter triduum to Sesto Calende the pastoral community St. Augustine organizes a week of spiritual exercises of Lent.

From the 3 to 9 Aprilin the presence of the Our Lady of Batnaya, statue from the Plain of Nineveh (Iraq) now revered as a pilgrim after being desecrated in 2014 by ISIS, the community catholic proposes for the faithful eight days of prayer, adoration of the rosary and meetings, as the final event, entitled “Reconstruction, return and rebirth: hopes and challenges for Christians in Iraq 5 years after Isis”, meeting-testimony by don Steven Esaam Yako Azabo to be held Saturday 9 April on zoom.

THE PROGRAM OF THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES

SUNDAY 3 APRIL:

9 PM: Arrival of the statue of the Madonna in San Bernardino, vespers presided over by Monsignor Giuseppe Vegezzi, episcopal vicar of the Varese area.

MONDAY 4 APRIL:

8.45 am: Holy Rosary and Mass, followed by Eucharistic adoration and the possibility of confessions until 10.30 am

15.30: Chaplet of Divine Mercy, Eucharistic Adoration for i parish groups

21: Mass presided over by Father Mario Piatti for the whole pastoral community and in particular for the pastoral council, the economic affairs council and the liturgical group

TUESDAY, APRIL 5TH:

8.45 am: Holy Rosary and Mass, followed by Eucharistic adoration and the possibility of confessions until 10.30 am

15.30: Chaplet of Divine Mercy, Eucharistic Adoration for parish groups with nuns

21: Mass presided over by Don Fabrizio Corono for the whole pastoral community, with the priests and faithful of Castelletto Ticino.

WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL:

8:45 am: Holy Rosary and Mass, followed by Eucharistic adoration and the possibility of confessions until 10.30

15:30: Mass for the sick with anointing of the sick.

21: Mass presided over by the dean Don Maurizio Villa for the whole pastoral community, with the priests and faithful of the Sesto Calende Deanery

THURSDAY 7 APRIL:

8:45 am: Holy Rosary and Mass, followed by Eucharistic adoration and the possibility of confessions until 10.30

14: 30-17: 30: Prayer meetings for all children of catechism.

21: Procession from the Abbey to San Bernardino with the miraculous Crucifix presided over by Don Luca Corbetta, parish priest of Sesto Calende

FRIDAY 8 APRIL:

8:45 am: Holy Rosary e Way of the crossfollowed by Eucharistic adoration and the possibility of confessions until 10.30

15:30: Via Crucis and confessions

21: Via Crucis, testimony of the Reggiori spouses and consecration of children and young people to Mary.

SATURDAY 9 APRIL:

8:45 am: Holy Rosary and Mass.

17:30 Mass for the closing of the spiritual exercises, presided over by Monsignor Francesco Brugnaro, archbishop emeritus of Camerino-San Severino Marche, with Eucharistic consecration of the pastoral community to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

21: Meeting “Reconstruction, return and rebirth: hopes and challenges for Christians in Iraq 5 years after ISIS”: Testimony of Fr Steven Esaam Yako Azabo, former parish priest in Batnaya, Chaldean diocese of Aloqosh, Iraq. The meeting will be on Zoom, to participate write to the number 3473249783


In Sesto Calende a week of Lenten spiritual exercises