The Garden of the Ulivi at the first track of the Central Station turned for an afternoon into an open -air church to gather the 12 employees of the various companies of the Italian State Railway Group (RFI, Blujet, Trenitalia and FS Security) who received the sacrament of Cresima at the end of a journey undertaken unexpectedly, together with the Head of the Central and Maritime Station of Messina between Giuseppe Maggiore.
A significant place the chosen one in which workers and workers have pronounced their “here I am” to the Lord. It was the archbishop Giovanni Accolla To celebrate the confiring rite for the first time in the station, aware that “in the workplace everyone manifests and testifies their faith, building authentic and transparent relationships, making their professionalism available to the community with intellectual honesty”. Accolla spoke of the strength of the meeting that daily between the tracks, in the frenzy of departures and arrivals, becomes testimony of life: “With our life we are mediators of the presence of Jesus,” he said.
A moment of celebration for the confirmations, their families, the religious of the Franciscan Messina family and the parish community of S. of Andrea Avellino who together with Fra Maggiore have made Corona at this moment; To animate the musical band the rest of Israel. “I come looking for you“The theme that marked the path of the 12 young people:” It was the Lord who sought these young people and meet them at the first track, in the atrium of the station, next to the newsstand, in the chapel, not a precise place, but any place, not at a precise time, a sign of the dynamism of the faith that is lived life. It is in the order that God makes himself in mind and not from hours to hours, but always “said the religious who for years has been taking care of the pastoral station for the central station by giving warmth and smiles to poor, clochards and those who live in the discomfort.