“Who was there, will hardly forget that day”: with this post on the Facbeok page of the Don parish Giuseppe Giunti He recalled the dramatic fire which, on July 25, 2023, razed the territory of the masses to the ground. It was a real Apocalypse For the communities of the villages that have suffered damage to homes and land. That night as in a film, the sound of the bells of the church of Massa Santa Lucia attracted everyone to the danger: to tame the flames pending the intervention of the firefighters and the civil protection volunteers the young parish priest Don Giuseppe Giunti, who challenged the danger in order to remain next to his people. Among the completely destroyed structures, the “Monsignor Fasola” Oasis, home to summer camps for many generations of young people and groups of priests.
To resist the flames only a small statue of the Madonna that Don Giunti found on a window of the Oasis Chapel, among a pile of ash.
Two years have passed since thenthe memory of those days did not go away but hope took care of everyone’s hearts, returning beauty and joy of life. Young people, the elderly, families all protagonists of a rebirth that goes on day after day.
In these days the community is engaged with the patronal feasts: after that of Massa Santa Lucia it is up to Massa San Giovanni: After the Eucharistic adoration under the stars, tonight the Instrumenti Pacis company will propose the musical “History of a Dancing Queen” inspired by the masterpiece of the Abba. Tomorrow evening the square of the church will turn into the large game of the living Jubileopolies (a game inspired by the classic monopoly) but reinvented in a Jubilee key; They will play adults and children. Sunday evening, at 19.30, after the mass, the procession of the simulacrum of San Giovanni through the streets of the town.