Another saint born into a family and raised in the suburbs
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Sister Clelia Merloni will be proclaimed blessed on November 3rd
by Graziella Fons
Holiness is a flower that blooms inside a person, soars in the sky of his freedom and walks the paths of men sowing goodness. There is no saint equal to another, the seeds of the divine bear fruit where God has established, even if sometimes it is difficult to find the field where God has hidden his presence. Many saints have struggled to find the ground on which to build the edifice of their loving relationship with God.
A helmsman with his bow towards the world
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The canonization of Paul VI
by Gabriele Cantaluppi
When he was appointed Patriarch in Venice, Cardinal Roncalli joked by saying: "now I would only have the papacy left, but the next pope will be the archbishop of Milan" and, on the eve of the conclave that would have elected him, "if Montini had been there, I wouldn't have had a single hesitation, my vote would have been for him." He will be the first in the list of cardinals he created on 15 December 1958. Among the hypotheses on the removal of Montini from the Vatican Curia by Pius XII, there is also that of having sent him to Milan, the largest and most prestigious diocese of the world, aware that that passage would have put him on the candlestick and would have prepared his pontificate.
The saints next door are the beautiful face of the Church
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Apostolic exhortation Gaudete et exultate
by Angelo Forti
Pope Francis, as in a musical overture, constantly returns to the theme of the joy of being Christian. The three apostolic exhortations of his pontifical magisterium are sung to the melody of joy. He began the first exhortation with the Evangelii gaudium, in the second exhortation to joy joy was added as the flowering of love, Amoris laetitia and, now, in the third exhortation, the note of joy returns with the rejoicing that leads to 'Exultation Gaudete et exsultate.
These joyful notes become jubilant, running through the musical score of the Beatitudes, a evangelical page that the Indian poet Gandhi called: "The highest words of human thought".