On 24 September at 6 pm, in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna, on the occasion of the Franciscan Festival, a meeting will be held for the 100th anniversary of the San Francesco magazine on inclusivity and poverty with the Archbishop of Bologna, Card. Matteo Maria Zuppi, Cecilia Strada and father Enzo Fortunato.
Every month in dialogue in a different square in Italy to celebrate the Saint of Assisi and his passage.
The appointment will be broadcast in live streaming on the sanfrancesco.org website and to participate in the meeting it is necessary to register at this link: https://www.festivalfrancescano.it/product/parole-povere/
After Assisi, Foligno, Alviano, Ascoli Piceno, Perugia, Ancona, Alessandria and Rome the journey continues towards Bologna where, according to the Franciscan sources, all the people of the city come to the city to see it; and the crowd of people was so great that with great pain they could reach the square. And the whole square being full of men and women and schoolchildren, and Saint Francis rises up in the middle of the place, high, and begins to preach what the Holy Spirit touched him. And he preached so marvelously, that he seemed to be preaching Agnolo rather than a man, and his heavenly words seemed like sharp arrows, which so pierced the hearts of those who heard him, that in that sermon a great multitude of men and women converted to penance ... '.
'In a moment of loss like the one we are experiencing due to the pandemic, let us allow ourselves to be reached by Francesco's gestures - said Father Enzo Fortunato -.
Encounters like this are the sign of a recovery to 'normality' that is entering our life in small steps'.
The event will be broadcast in live streaming on the sanfrancesco.org website and on the Facebook channel of the editor of the magazine Padre Enzo Fortunato.
