Elijah Fiorenza
Pazzano (RC) - Approaching the night of the Assumption celebrated in the ancient hermitage-Sanctuary Montestella in Pazzano. All thanks to the praiseworthy and painstaking job of rector Fr Enzo Chiodo, inter alia, the diocesan director of the Office for Cultural Heritage Church in recent years has been "resurrected" the sacred place of Marian devotion. A retreat nestled in the limestone cliffs of Mount Stella, where a statue of the Virgin beautiful white marble, with an attitude of prayer invites us to look to the sky, collecting the joys and anxieties of so many pilgrims and tourists who invade the sacred mountain especially in the month of August. It 's a place calling in search of himself and of God as our time of loss, comes the need to discover the truth in the silence of the hermitage, like the ancient monks. During the festival, this year the management of the Sanctuary, under the guidance of Enzo rector Don Chiodo, has organized an exhibition of sacred art of icons on the life and theology of St. Paul, the work of the monastic community Diocesan Sisters of Jesus ", which will be inaugurated by Bishop Femia, vicar general of the diocese on August 6 at 19. On 11 August and 23 days at 18.00, the hermits will do two conversations on the cultural life of St. Paul updated today. Two important meetings with Sister Leone Ross who will discuss "The Calling of Saint Paul through the language of the icon" and Sister Renata relazionerà sketches on "Theology of the Cross and Pauline spirituality through the language of the icon. On the night of August 14 at 23.00 Bishop Giuseppe Fiorini Morosini, bishop of Locri, Gerace, bless the Via Lucis which will expand the sanctuary of 14 new works of art, they will invite the pilgrim and the tourist needs to recover light to face the way of the cross of every man. "The Assumption of Mary body and soul - explains the rector Don Chiodo Enzo - is the precious gift of the Risen Lord. It anticipates that to which men aspire to be always the hope of eternity as a force to deal with this. Invite everyone to rediscover the value of the cross as a privileged way to get the glory, the need to be able to face the difficulties with the light of the resurrection of Jesus Only in him can be passed from darkness to light. " The "Via Lucis" explained Enzo by the Rector Don Chiodo
153. In recent times, in different regions, spreading it came a pious exercise called the Via Lucis. In it, in the guise of what happens in the Via Crucis, the faithful process while meditating on the various appearances that Jesus - the Resurrection to the Ascension, in view of the Parousia - manifested His glory to the disciples waiting for the promised Spirit (cf. Jn 14, 26, 16, 13-15, Lk 24, 49), strengthened their faith, brought to completion his teaching on the Kingdom and more closely defined the sacramental and hierarchical structure of the Church. Through the devotion of the Via Lucis, the faithful recall the central event of the faith - the Resurrection of Christ - and their discipleship in virtue of Baptism, the paschal sacrament, have passed from the darkness of sin in the light of grace (cf. Col 1, 13, Ephesians 5, 8). For centuries the Via Crucis mediated participation of the faithful at the first moment of the Easter event - the Passion - and contributed to fixed in the consciousness of the people. Similarly, in our time, the Via Lucis, provided they are conducted through fidelity to the Gospel text, can effectively convey a living understanding to the faithful of the second moment of the Passover of the Lord's Resurrection. The Via Lucis may also become an excellent teaching of the faith, because, as they say, "to crucem to Lucem. Using the metaphor of the road, the Via Lucis moves from the experience of pain, which in God's plan is not part of life, hope of reaching the true end: liberation, joy, peace , which are essentially paschal values. The Via Lucis, finally, in a society that often bears the imprint of the "culture of death", with its expressions of anguish and destruction, is an incentive to establish a "culture of life", a culture that is open to the expectations of hope and the certainty of faith.
