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LA PREGHIERA DI GESÚ:
IL PADRE NOSTRO
It has become a tradition for the Spoleto Festival to offer in its program a cycle of "Sermons" that, thanks to qualified speakers, offers to those who want to listen to them some food for thought and insight.
After the happy experiences of past years, 2017 addresses the theme of prayer starting with the text Jesus of Nazareth delivered to his disciples: the Our Father. With Tertullian, a writer of the second century CE, the tradition of the Christian churches sees in those words a compendium of the whole Gospel. They contain the essential dimensions of Jesus' preaching and are found as the introduction to his teaching and the very mystery of his existence.
Even today, retracing this text and delving into the questions it formulates-from daily bread to mutual forgiveness-leads to to discover what it means to pray, whether it is possible to talk to God, whether it is not an illusion, whether we can actually ask him for something. For in order to pray it is indispensable to find the path of the heart; the heart understood not as the place of emotional life and emotions, but as the center of the person, the precise point where man knows himself in truth. It is for this reason that prayer cannot be defined as a discourse addressed to God or an intellectual reflection on God's being. Christian prayer is on another plane. It is a dialogue between two beings.
+ Renato Boccardo
to care of theArchdiocese Spoleto-Norcia
in collaboration with Spoleto 60 Festival
program
Saturday 1 July at 17.00
Our Father who art in heaven
Card. Giuseppe Betori, Archbishop of Florence
Sunday, July 2 at 5 p.m.
Hallowed be thy name
Sister Roberta Vinerba, Lecturer at the Higher Institute of Religious Studies - Assisi
friday 7 July at 17.00
Thy kingdom come
Dom Donato Ogliari, osb, abbot of Montecassino
Saturday 8 July at 17.00
Thy will be done
Card. Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture
Sunday, July 9 at 5:00 p.m.
Give us this day our daily bread
Prof. Marco Impagliazzo, President of the Community of St. Egidio - Rome
friday 14 July at 17.00
Forgive to us our debts as we forgive our debtors
P. Ermes Maria Ronchi, sm, Lecturer at the Pontifical Theological Faculty "Marianum" - Rome
Saturday 15 July at 17.00
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
Msgr. Renato Boccardo, Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia
Born to Foligno (Perugia) in 1947, ordained priest Sept. 26, 1970, he has been archbishop of Florence since Oct. 26, 2008. He studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Pontifical Biblical Institute, where he earned a doctorate in Sacred Scripture. He has been a professor of introduction to Sacred Scripture and New Testament exegesis at the Theological Institute of Assisi. He has written several publications of a biblical and pastoral nature. A former director of the National Catechetical Office and then undersecretary of the Italian Bishops' Conference, he oversaw the publication of several volumes of the Catechism of the Italian Church, the organization of the Ecclesial Convention of Palermo (1995) and that of Verona (2006), the launch and development of the "cultural project," and the preparation of the 15th World Youth Day (2000). On April 5, 2001, he was appointed from Pope John Paul II secretary general of the Italian Bishops' Conference and titular bishop of Falerone. He is appointed archbishop of Florence on Sept. 8, 2008. In the Ordinary Public Consistory of Feb. 18, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI created him a Cardinal of Holy Roman Church.
A Franciscan diocesan nun incorporated in the Diocese of Perugia - Città della Pieve, she holds a licentiate in Moral Theology and a doctorate in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University. She collaborates with magazines, radio and TV, with columns on to issues in the world of youth and social issues in general. A professor of Moral Theology at the Theological Institute and the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences in Assisi, he is president of Circolo Giorgio La Pira, a political formation school for young people in the Diocese of Perugia. An adult catechist, she is from many years involved in the evangelization of youth and adolescents