Our presence among the Churches and among men
The prior, br Enzo, has again in these last few months been occupied in his ministry of preaching in various cities in Italy and abroad, in addition to taking part in meetings, Biblical weeks, and retreats for priests given at Bose. Other brothers and sisters of the community have also carried out a service of preaching at local churches and religious communities in Italy and abroad and have spoken at church or monastic conferences
Bose, December 2010
The prior, br Enzo, has again in these last few months been occupied in his ministry of preaching in various cities in Italy and abroad, in addition to taking part in meetings, Biblical weeks, and retreats for priests given at Bose. In this period he was asked by various bishops to preach to the faithful in general and to priests in the Italian dioceses of Turin, Vercelli, Cuneo, Pavia, Parma, Padua, Pitigliano and Orbetello, Spoleto (where he led the common ten-year retreat of the Umbrian Bishops’ Conference and of Umbrian diocesan priests), Foligno, Pisa, Lucca, Pistoia, Anagni-Alatri, Naples, Bari, Taranto, as well as in the dioceses of Ghent in Belgium and Metz in France. In March, at the invitation of the cardinal prefect Franc Rodé, br Enzo preached the Lenten retreat to the members of the Congregation for religious of the Roman curia, while in November, at the invitation of the cardinal president Gianfranco Ravasi, he gave a talk in “Mystagogical communication” at the plenary assembly of the Pontifical council on culture. Two contributions to religious life were offered by the prior on the occasion of the assembly of the Union of Italian women major superiors (USMI), held in Rome, and of the Italian conference of major superiors (CISM), held in Milan.
One theme on which he spoke several times in different contexts (Gaeta, Santa Margherita Ligure, Genoa, Brad), was receiving foreigners. He also participated in conferences and round tables of a cultural character: at the Book Fair of Turin, the Turin Spirituality Festival, the Biblical Festival of Vicenza, and Philosophy Festival of Modena, at the Gregorian and Urbanian Universities and the University of St Bonaventure in Rome and at the University of Bologna; at the Cittadella of Assisi on the occasion of the 68th Course of inter-Christian studies organized by Pro Civitate Christiana; qt the 38th study week of the Association of professors of liturgy at Paestum; at Rome at the international congress of the Catholic Biblical Federation on the post-synodal exhortation Verbum Domini with a lecture, “The Bible and lectio divina”.
Abroad the prior participated in the conference of the movement Vivre ensemble l’Évangile aujourd’hui, held at Lourdes, with two talks on the topic The specific characteristics of Christianity. In Paris at the Centre Sèvres he gave a talk at the Jesuit Theological Faculty of France on the topic Transmitting the good news today. In Spain he gave a talk in Barcelona, then in Madrid he preached to the abbesses of Spanish monasteries. In Istanbul he was the principal speaker at the international conference Recent studies on the councils in the presence of the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I.
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