Two arms stretched ready to welcome, share, bear, love: this is the meaning and strength of the cross, a sign of hope for everyone, especially those who suffer pilgrims on the path of life. The Cross of the Jubilee among the Italian Misericodie, the spiritual icon promoted by the National Confraternity Confraternities that is crossing the Peninsula, stopped yesterday morning at the Polyclinic departments. Welcomed by the director, prof. Carmelo Romeo, and from the chaplain of the Father William Rivas Literate Hospital, the caravan of the yellow Cyan volunteers led by the spiritual corrector Father Giovanni Pelriti gave smiles and the joy of sharing to the little ones of the departments with their mothers and the stories, between games, dances and prayer.
The strength and courage of those who generate life, but also of those who defend it and take care of it as the professionals who carry on their mission every day in hospitals. The message that Father Pelleriti delivered to those present, speaking on behalf of the volunteers who testify to charity through their service. Together they invoked the peace engraved on the back of the cross in all the languages of the world. The peregrinatio della Croce, who arrived in Messina on Friday evening by Letojanni, ended yesterday evening in the church of San Nicolò in Pistunina with the mass presided over by the Archbishop Accolla and the passage of witness to the group of the Misericordia di Spadafora. Mercy is a voluntary partnership having for purpose the constant affirmation of Christian charity and fraternity through the testimony of the works of spiritual and corporal mercy, to the rescue of individuals and the community contributing to the formation of consciences according to the teaching of the Gospel and the Roman Apostolic Church.