The BOOK
May 1st 2018: in Bangui, Capital
city of Central Africa, armed people enter the parish church of Fatima, throwing
grenades and shooting on the crowd gathered for the Mass. They leave at least
16 dead, including the priest which I know. The people really strained organize
a march bringing with them the bodies of some of the victims to the Presidential
Palace, where the march is broken up by the military.
It's a terrible news. The fear that
violence is unleashed is reality: 80% of the Country is in the hands of rebels,
and in the Capital itself there are entire neighborhoods in the hands of armed
bands.
The Cardinal, Archbishop of Bangui,
has launched a message calling for prayer and calm, but at the same time asks
that the truth be made about what happened at Fatima parish church. Peace is
still far away!
The first week of May, after a brief
visit to my confreres of Bocca di Magra, where I give a press conference about
the book just printed containing the texts of this blog, beginning from January
1st of 2008, to the other 320 texts from 2011 to the whole 2017.
As I said newly printed, the book is
titled: "Courage. We must fight so
that God grants victory ".
Thursday evening there is the
official presentation of the book in Cuneo, in a beautiful location: a
greenhouse full of plants and flowers, made available by some friends like Roagna.
Paolo Silvestro (but not only) who worked on the making of the book, and together
with Fabrizio Brignone, the author of the foreword, all of them introduce the
meeting, and then leave me the floor. At this happening there is a good number
of person. Some of my Carmelite confreres are also present. And at the end of
the evening, we sell the first 77 copies. On Friday, I am guest of the
University of Turin, where I speak of Bozoum to a hundred third-curriculum
students. And in the evening I'm in Dogliani, where Rai-Italian Television
interview me and where I can talk about the book.
Take courage!
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| Università di Torino |
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| A Dogliani con RAI 3 |
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