This year marks the 30th anniversary of the passing of Father David Maria
Turold.
November 22 was the 106th anniversary of his birth.
The “Growing up with the Word” cycle of Cantiere Speranza has decided to dedicate a special evening to him
Tuesday 6 December at 21 in Sant’Antonio mobilizing two very important and significant realities
of the cultural world of Casale: the Theater Collective and the Musical Chapel of the Cathedral (with Matteo Camagna organ).
The aim of the evening – illustrated in the Cavalla room on Tuesday in a press conference presided over by Riccardo Calvo flanked by Edda Gastaldi – to make known to a wider public, thanks to the joint testimony of these two teams and Dr. Armando Buonaiuto, head of “Turin Spirituality”, what was perhaps the Italian intellectual who most knew how to enhance the biblical text in a poetic and prophetic key during the twentieth century.
Turoldo – as Calvo recalled – is also linked to the history of our territory
presence in Torcello, near Via Larda of the Friar Servi di Maria whom they knew well
David Maria Turoldo and shared many paths with him. A brother Served a lot
known in Monferrato was Bernardino Zanellaperhaps the one who first has
denounced and was able to represent the related issues in a very competent way
to the pollution of Eternit.
Last, but certainly not least, the guest invited to remember Turoldo: a character
truly extraordinary because Dr. Armando Bonaiuto is director of “Torino
spirituality” and has been collaborating with RAI for years in cultural in-depth programs
with great knowledge and communication skills.
For those who follow the radio program “Men and prophets”, this young intellectual
Turinese, he is a very familiar and welcome figure.
For his presence “Cantiere Speranza” we thank the journalist Chiara
Genisio who will accompany him on his trip to Monferrato.
The Collective Theater on Tuesday was represented by Mario Saldì who plays Turoldo, Ramona Bruno and Andrea Coppa.
The proposal of “Cantiere Speranza” and “Crescere con la Parola” follows in the wake of
what has been done in recent years precisely in collaboration with these two precious realities of
Casale cultural landscape. The work with the “Collettivo Teatrale” began years ago with
paths to enhance Holy Week and Dante’s great heritage
With the “Musical Chapel of the Cathedral”, however, “Cantiere Speranza” animated the
International Day of Peace and proposed moments of knowledge deepening e
liturgical.
From Genesis to the Apocalypse with very strong episodes dedicated to the Psalms to Job al
Qoelet Turoldo’s work in the service of the Word has made him an interlocutor for many
believers and non-believers who recognized in him a voice as the
cardinal Martini “prophetic and scandalous”; Carlo Bo, on the other hand, defined it as “capable of
to sing faith and to believe by singing”
The friar served has left over an enormous amount of material that is
become, as we will be able to grasp through the Musical Chapel of the Cathedral,
constituent element of our liturgy and simultaneously succeeded with a
autobiography that “contains three or four different lives” as Cardinal Ravasi said
to bear witness to the experience of research, restlessness, the ability to share
of fatigue in all the different junctures of life as they will try to attest to
performers of the Theater Collective.
Of extraordinary interest certainly the last part of his life when, crossed
from the disease and from the torments of the same, several times he wondered about the “silence of God” on the
“Good Friday Cross” and on the condition of abandonment and closure, of indifference
of contemporary culture.
“We believe that the evening – the organizers underlined – could be useful as a moment of reflection in view of Christmas to encourage us to look at the liturgy and the Epiphany of the Divine Child with the eyes of those poor people whom Turoldo loved and defended so much”.
-Always for Cantiere Speranza on Friday 2 at 21 in the Sala Cavalla (former Seminary) meeting “Freedom and industriousness”, speaker prof. Don Gabriele Maria Corini.
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PHOTO. The presentation of the event