31 years have passed since the day Sister Maria Alfonsa del Bambin Gesù left the earthly life but the scent of holiness that has always emanated continues to break out in the hearts of the many devotees linked to her. A modern vocation that of the religious of the congregation of the repairing maidens, aka Elena Bruno, who became a model of life for the heroic professed virtues enclosed in the physical suffering procured by the disease that forced her for 25 years to the infirmity in the wheelchair, its royal “throne”.
Cathedral crowded in a riot of white and red roses for the celebration of the pious transit that every year on August 23 becomes an indispensable appointment despite the heat for families, religious and religious, secular aggregations – first of all the Pia Associazione “Friends of Sister Maria Alfonsa of the Child Jesus” chaired by Nino La Greca – and with great amazement also for young people. It was the deputy postulator of the cause of beatification/canonization between Tonino Bono to preside over the celebration, during which he recalled “the value of the announcement always proclaimed by Sister Alfonsa, underlining the ability to” make infallible spiritual diagnosis, dispensement of love to all brothers and sisters “. To bring the greeting of the Congregation was the superior general Sister Maria Chiara Adam. Congregation, founded by the venerable Msgr. Antonino Celona, reiterated the strength of collective prayer so that the miracle is attested that will allow Pope Leo to proclaim him blessed.
There was no shortage of thought and prayer for Sister Maria Elsa Ciraolo, who disappeared on 10 May last, who for about 26 years has joined and assisted her sisters in the long term of the disease, a proof also lived by her with the same dignity and faith. At the end of the mass animated by the diocesan choral of renewal in the spirit, the roses offered by the association “Friends of Sister Maria Alfonsa of the Child Jesus” were blessed. The diocesan phase of the beatification/canonization process of the servant of God Alfonsa was started by Archbishop Giovanni Marra in 2002 and ended on March 17, 2009; It is currently underway in Rome at the Congregation of the Causes of Saints.