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NoonOctober 24, 2022 – 13:17
Father Giuseppe Galliano can no longer celebrate mass or administer the sacraments I have rented a room and will talk to the people, in Italy thanks be to God there is freedom of speech
from Gabriele Bojano
open war between father Giuseppe Gallianoresigned from the congregation of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus for obstinate disobedience to the legitimate provisions imparted by superiors in serious matters, and its ecclesiastical leaders. The expected religious on 25 and 26 October at the Social Center of Salerno for two days of spirituality meetings despite the archbishop of the diocese of Salerno, Monsignor Andrea Bellandi, has communicated to all the faithful that the liturgical actions performed by Father Giuseppe Galliano, even in places other than places of worship, take place in violation of canonical norms and the provisions of the competent ecclesiastical authority. Bellandi is not the only prelate to have launched the anathema against Galliano: in the joint note released to the press, a case more unique than rare in the ecclesiastical high spheres, there are also the signatures of bishops of Milan, Monreale, Novara, Palermo and the cardinal vicar of Rome.
From Rome to Palermo
What is happening to me cannot be rationally understood – says Father Galliano, who enjoys a following of several hundred people at every meeting, even if considered illegal – before issuing a statement full of accusations and in which the readers of think of the most varied atrocities that I would have committed should have called me and give me the opportunity to explain myself and possibly defend myself. The troubles for the former missionary from Palermo began on May 17 last when the superior general of the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, father Mario Alvaion Avalardo Tovar, discharged him from the institute. A provision that no longer allowed Father Galliano to exercise sacred orders, face to face and online, unless he found a bishop who authorized it. My superior – explains the religious – did not agree with my line of work, the way of preaching with spontaneous songs and choirs in the style of Charismatic Renewal. And on June 24, through a letter, he imposed obedience on me, that is, to leave the order, after more than 30 years, to move from Rome to Palermo in a religious house and no longer say charismatic mass.
Silent meditation
But Galliano is tough and disobeys. By not accepting this unjustified provision, I have not complied with the vow of obedience that religious are bound to respect. He does not therefore move to Palermo and continues to meet the faithful. But without celebrating mass or administering any sacrament, as the superiors imposed on him. Father Giuseppe Galliano remains a priest – explains his lawyer, Francesca Fratini – and he can certainly give lectures of a religious nature. We are in Italy and thank God in Italy there is freedom of speech – Father Galliano adds to the dose – I can rent a place and talk to people. Can Jehovah’s Witnesses Do It, And Why Not Me? Consider me a “free lance” priest The two salernitan appointments much awaited by the priest’s followers fall within this perspective. Among the activities foreseen the Lectio Divina on the Word of Sunday and the prayer for healing and liberation. On the 25th, in addition, there will be a silent meditation practice in the dark of which Father Giuseppe is a recognized expert. When you are victims of an injustice – wrote the religious on fb quoting Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov – do not let yourself be gnawed by sorrow or by the desire for revenge. Wait and keep working on yourself. All that is inspired by the divine world will remain and will one day shine in all its glory.
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