Piazza Armerina. Celebrated the World Day of the Sick
afternoon full of prayer and meditation, the anniversary of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin at Lourdes and the XIX World Day of the Sick at St. Anthony Church in Piazza Armerina, strongly backed dall'UNITALSI piazzese led by Professor Castro Alfina Trebastoni with other members of the group Unitalsi and the many disabled members.
After initially dedicated to the recitation of the Rosary, the afternoon continued with the Mass led by Bishop Michele Pennisi: "We need to consider carefully - Pennisi said during the celebration - the message of the Holy Father" By his wounds you were healed "because it is a cruel and inhuman society unable to accept the sick."
"The initiative of this morning - said the President Alfina Trebastoni - aims to celebrate the anniversary set in 1992 by Pope John Paul II, to arouse and strengthen in all the feeling of welcome to our sick brothers. The water we drank during the celebration and that comes directly from the source in the Massabielle grotto in Lourdes, I hope to bring comfort and spiritual ills that plague us during our earthly journey, and to devote our hearts and our families. " The
Unitalsi (Italian National Union of Transport of the Sick to Lourdes and Shrines International) founded in Italy in the early '900, by Giovan Battista Tommasi and established in Sicily in 1927 by the Duke of Misterbianco Salvatore Trigona, has the specific aim to conduct service for the sick and disabled, promoting pilgrimages to Lourdes and the Shrines Italian and international, through the work of volunteers who are committed to provide free help in a spirit of true Christian charity. Section piazzese, to date, and is attended by about 150 members between animated Disabled, ladies and stretcher-bearers. Marta
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