«He truly loved the Lord»
Interview with Pia Luciani,
nephew of John Paul I
by Francesco Marruncheddu
CHow did you, as a family, receive the news of the beatification of your uncle, Albino Luciani, by Pope John Paul I?
We always knew that it would come, that sooner or later it would happen. We welcomed her with joy and also with a lot of normality. We thank the Lord for this gift: not everyone is given to have a blessed uncle! I know families who have a saint among their relatives, but it's not something usual or something you get used to... . For us he was equally "blessed" before, we already considered him a saint, but now it is the Church that officially recognizes him. But it was worth taking it out of the darkness and placing it like a candle on the candlestick…
The Lord loved his humility so much
The beatification of Pope John Paul I, Albino Luciani, which will be celebrated
next September 4th, proposes once again the mysteriously short days of a pontificate entirely dedicated to the essentials.
by Lucio Brunelli
To read his name solemnly inscribed among the blessed of the Catholic Church, Albino Luciani would blush. Like the time when Paul VI took off his papal stole in Venice and placed it on his shoulders as a sign of esteem. «I had never turned so red in my life», he confided in his first Angelus after the papal election. People felt that thehumbled in the new pope it was not a pose.
Holy Thursday inside the Cenacle
Father Ibrahim Faltas of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land talks about the two years of the pandemic in Bethlehem and the confident prayer to Saint Joseph
edited by Alba Arcuri
EIt was December 8, 2020 when Pope Francis announced the year dedicated to Saint Joseph. In the midst of the pandemic, he perpetuated "the entrustment of the entire Church to the very powerful patronage of the Guardian of Jesus". Unfortunately the closure of the churches, and then the reopening with distancing also means sending someone home, inviting them to follow mass remotely, renouncing the Eucharist. It happened all over the world, it happened in the Holy Land.