Carissimi, il Signore vi dia pace.
Eccomi di nuovo a voi dopo il mio rientro in Cile. Desidero ringraziare per quanto I lived in the months spent in Italy: I had the opportunity to be with my family, to meet the brothers to share a little 'time with many people.
Thank you so much for the warmth and fellowship experienced: this helps us understand how we
faith constitutes the only family of God among men, beyond space and time.
Thanks also for the Eucharist and the shared moments of prayer: they are the source from which to draw
live the faith in which the Lord has placed us. In my heart all this and praise the Lord for this gift.
After returning from my fraternity brothers and the people left in town (we are here in summer and those who can went to the sea) I was greeted with celebration by asking me to tell them what was experienced during this month.
I brought them your greetings, your memory, and through some photographs I took during our meetings, I made them see your faces. When all are back from vacation (late February), will organize an evening to share experiences.
And speaking of summer, the heat is felt here: the day the temperature is high, while the evening falls considerably allowing the night, sleeping in a cool place. People who have the chance, go to the beaches along the ocean beaches where often there are no buildings, where people take the necessary to create a small camp here and take advantage of this wonderful place. Many families who can not qualify for leave, to depart Saturday morning and stand out to sea until Sunday evening, thus escaping the heat of the city.
Thank God there are pools in the city where you can spend a little al fresco 'time during the day: I say they are very popular with families who have children
.
And in the heat, you begin to prepare proposals for the journey of the Christian community for this new pastoral year. Already in January he was made the parish pastoral council with the verification of the progress made and the planning for what we are about to begin. Now you have to bring it in the different way in realizing the proposed: a bit 'you can do it now, a bit' after the holidays.
conclude by telling you briefly what the city has experienced over the past week. In town there is a shrine dedicated to Our Lady Candlemas (Candelaria) which houses a statue of the Madonna was found by a farmer in the mountains of the Andes. The sanctuary is well known (the Candelaria is the patron saint of miners) and the feast of February 2, celebrated 12 days holiday (one day for each month of the year). Each day was devoted to a reality (family, miners, youth, elderly, sick, etc.).. There are plenty of people who participated in this event: daily Masses were celebrated at 6:00 to 7:00 -
8:00 in the morning and another two or three in the afternoon. In any mass turnout was very large: for the people of the Virgin Copiapó Candelaria is the patron of the city (on the occasion of the accident at the mine
San José, the statue "original" was brought before the entry of
mine and stayed up until the last miner) and a popular devotion to Mary very strong.
Sunday after the final Mass presided by Bishop, in the afternoon there was a procession with the statue of Our Lady: two and half hours of procession under a scorching sun with groups of religious dance that preceded the statue dancing non-stop, around the perimeter surrounded by so many people of all ages. Of course, next to some "folk", there is a devotion to understand and respect: a popular religion that persists over time and asking to be sustained.
conclude by sending you a warm greeting dear friends: we continue our journey together in prayer.
you all the best wishes in the Lord. A hug. Hello. Fr Franco
Odorizzi
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