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Don Mario Colabianchi, pastor of the Pastoral Unit will introduce the theme of the evening. Aldo Caporaletti, cultural promoter and curator of the meeting, will present the guests and the initiative, the sixth appointment in a cycle dedicated to figures of Christian spirituality. The meeting will give space to the speech that Pope Francis gave on 20 June 2017 on the occasion of the visit to the tomb of Don Lorenzo Milani, buried in the small cemetery of Barbiana. Paolo Landi, a former pupil of Don Milani at the Barbiana School, will report on the theme: “Don Milani, the man, the educator, the prophet”. At the end of the evening, the solo voice Maria Cristina Domenella, soprano, will perform the piece “I Care” by Aleandro Baldi in homage to Don Lorenzo. Actress Emilia Bacaro, narrator, will read some selected passages from the “Letters of Don Lorenzo Milani”, underlining the theme of the power of the word in Milan’s thought. The texts read by the reciting voice will be taken from the Letter to the military chaplains, from the Letter to the judges, from the Letter to a teacher (composed with the students), from the correspondence with the archbishop of Florence, Cardinal Ermenegildo Florit, from the “Testament of don Milani ”to the boys of Barbiana.

To give back to the poor the word, because without the word there is no dignity and therefore neither freedom and justice: this is what Don Lorenzo Milani teaches. And it is the word that will open the way to full citizenship in society, through work and full belonging to the Church with a conscious faith (Pope Francis, from the speech in Barbiana, Vicchio del Mugello, 20 June 2017). “Faith – writes a very young Don Lorenzo Milani in” Pastoral Experiences “- is not something to be put into speeches at the first opportunity, but a way of living and thinking” (Don Luigi Ciotti, in Mario Lancisi, Don Milani, life , Piemme, Milan, 2015). “Where the superiors thought of stemming a man – sending him to the exile of Barbiana – they created the pedestal

suitable. Here are the paradoxes that God prepares for his best servants “(Father Ernesto Balducci,” The Prophet Don Milani “, in” I and Don Milani “, Edizioni San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo, April 2017).

Some utterances of Don Milani left us petrified, like the voices of the prophets, who know no nuances of any kind. Is it God who dictates certain condemnations to them? It seems we have to answer in the affirmative (Monsignor Loris Capovilla, Famiglia Cristiana, issue of March 5, 2017). “I folli di Dio” is the title of a book by Mario Lancisi also dedicated to Don Lorenzo Milani. In Russian spirituality they are the bearers of wisdom. This expression also indicates the exponents of the Christian Church in post-war Florence (Cardinal Elia Dalla Costa, Giorgio La Pira, Father Ernesto Balducci). There are no more teachers of those levels and we are all poorer.

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