At the feet of Mary, with her gaze towards her, as if it were the first time: the mass under the stone is the prelude to tomorrow, the solemnity of the Assumption, which for the Messina is faith and devotion that is renewed. Piazza Castronovo crowded on the evening of the eve, between the riot of colors of the lights and the votive candles of the Ceri Messina Group arrived in the procession from Palazzo Zanca shortly before the beginning of the celebration. A prayer in prayer, opened by the Panaghia Orthodox community Sumelà and San Giacomo Apostolo, a sign of that communion that is at home in Messina.
It was Archbishop Giovanni Accolla who presided over the Mass, with the participation of the Parish of S. Maria dell’Arco, of the chaplain of the Vara Father Antonello Angemi, of the Diocesan Interconfratern Center, of the civil and military institutions. “The feast of the Assumption is the identity of the Messina people and options of testimony and evangelization. There is no expression of faith that is not able to generate good and beauty” said Msgr. Beware. From death to life, this is the theological sense of the solemnity of the Assumption (the Virgin climbed in heaven in the body and soul), enclosed in that coffin with the Blessed Virgin Mary Sleeping (the Dormitio Virginis) kept in the Montevergine monastery, which will be placed tomorrow at the base of the stone. The chaplain of the Vara Father Antonello Angemi also recalled that “Vara is the centerpiece of the path of faith of the Messina community”.
Tomorrow after the live RTP of the 7.30 in which the drafting and assembly of the Gomnene will be told, at 11 in the Cathedral the solemn pontifical chaired by Msgr. Beware. At 6.30 pm the departure of the Vara procession (which RTP will broadcast live starting from 17.30) and, after the arrival in Piazza Duomo and the final blessing, the mass in the cathedral chaired by the auxiliary bishop Msgr. Cesare Di Pietro.