A request for grace, a prayer of comfort, the need to rediscover one’s faith through the link with tradition: devotion for S. Antonio of Padua It is among the most felt and recalls thousands of faithful and pilgrims from Sicily, Calabria and Puglia every year in the city. In the signs of the Blessed Bread and the Gigli, there is the whole fragrance and simplicity of those who still believe in the cult of the saints, as “current models that speak to the hearts of people”. The faithful Messina celebrates him on his liturgical day, on June 13, pending the 12th edition of the White Night – sponsored by the Municipality of Messina and the Regional Sport and Entertainment Regional Department – which will take place tonight starting from 8 pm in the vast pedestrianized area around the Basilica of the Rogationist Fathers of via S. Cecilia which will be the heart of the evening.
Among the most important moments, the awarding of the “Sant’Antonio and Sant’Annibal” award, dedicated to solidarity, charity and universal brotherhood, to the Messina surgeon Enrico GringeriHead of the hepatabiliopancreatic surgery unit and liver transplants of the University of Padua. It was Msgr. Giuseppe Sciacca, former secretary of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature to preside over the solemn Mass concelebrated by the rector of the Father Sanctuary last night Mario Magro and participated by the mayor Basile And from many faithful who have gathered in prayer at the foot of the saint’s relic bust to make or ask for thanks. “S. Antonio is one of the most beloved protagonists of the Church, of history, of Christian life and distance of many centuries his figure continues to be current, because it is characterized by full adhesion to Christ” said the Acese Bishop. Tomorrow evening the procession of the triumphal wagon with the relics returns to parade through the streets of the center; Starting from 19 RTP there will be a part of the live event. In the morning at 11, the pontifical chaired by the cardinal Claudio Gugerottiprefect of the Dicastery for the eastern churches.