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to edited by Lucetta Scaraffia, Monsignor Renato Boccardo
organization **Spoleto57 Festival of 2Mondi **and Archdiocese Spoleto-Norcia
Under the patronage of the Pontifical College for the Promotion of the New Evangelization
program
Saturday 28 June
Msgr. Rino Fisichella Wisdom
Sunday, June 29
Sr. Catherine Aubin Fortress
friday 4 July
**Cettina Militello**Science.
Saturday 5 July
**Dom Alessandro Barban **TheMercy
Sunday 6 July
Card. Gualtiero Bassetti The council
Friday, July 11
Father Raniero Cantalamessa The intellect
Saturday 12 July
Msgr. Renato Boccardo The fear of God
The unique and successful experience of the sermons at the Spoleto Festival will be resumed again this year. The sermons in the church of St. Dominic - a successful initiative now in its third year - have allowed a journey of approaching more strictly spiritual themes. At first we started with the deadly vices, interpreted by the preachers as obstacles to the happy fulfillment of the human being, and then moved on to the works of spiritual mercy, a forgotten set of suggestions that are instead valuable for a real maintenance of human relationships.
This year then-after the denunciation of vices and after the indication of the path to improve our relationship with our neighbor in the perspective and in the light of Christian love-we arrive to at a positive milestone: the preachers we have chosen will in fact present and propose to us the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit (in Hebrew, ruah ha-kodesh). According to Christian tradition they can be considered as the ways through which divine grace, sent mysteriously to human beings, helps women and men of all times to progress and advance on the spiritual path. These gifts are seven in number: wisdom, intellect, counsel, fortitude, science, piety, and the fear of God. Taken individually and as a whole, they involve an increase in the spiritual awareness of each person who receives them and knows how to receive them with humility and love.
Since then the usual attribute by which the Holy Spirit is called in the oldest Christian writings is "the comforter" (in Greek, ho paràkletos) we can infer from this that the growth of wisdom - understood as various forms of awareness of the meaning of life, combined with piety and humility, interpreted to in turn as fear of God - constitutes a gift of consolation for human beings. Indeed, the very gift par excellence, the only one that can help us to overcome the afflictions that living entails.
This year's sermons will thus to help us discover these seven gifts and welcome them into our lives, remembering, however, that God's intervention is never predictable and indeed always amazes us. Because, as Benedict XVI has written, "where he bursts in, the Holy Spirit always disrupts the plans of men."
Lucetta Scaraffia
Born to Codogno (Lodi) on August 25, 1951. Ordained priest for the diocese of Rome on March 13, 1976 and Auxiliary Bishop of Rome in 1998. Received, in 1980, his doctorate in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he taught "Fundamental Theology" from 1981 to 2001. Invited professor in several Italian and foreign universities. From 2002 to 2010 he was Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical Lateran University. From 2008 to 2010 he was President of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Since June 30, 2010, he has been President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization. He is also a Member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Pontifical Council for Culture, the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses. He is considered among the most influential Italian theologians to international level. He is currently the author and editor of twenty-five volumes translated into several languages, and numerous articles for scholarly and international journals. He has lectured in several European countries (Germany, Great Britain, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Hungary) and in Brazil, the Philippines, Turkey, India, Korea, Taiwan, and Colombia. In 2005, he received the Gold Medal for Culture from the President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
Born in France in 1959, a Dominican of the Roman Congregation of St. Dominic. She graduated in psychology then in theology at the Faculty of Theology of the "Institut Catholique" in Paris, then obtained her doctorate in Spiritual Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas to Rome where she teaches Sacramental and Spiritual Theology as at the Institute of Theology of Consecrated Life. He contributes to Vatican Radio for several spirituality broadcasts. He has written books on spiritual anthropology translated into several languages.
Cettina Militello holds doctorates in philosophy (University of Palermo, 1968) and theology (Pontifical Gregorian University, 1979). A former permanent lecturer at the Theological Faculty of Sicily, she is an extraordinary lecturer at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute (Rome). He also currently teaches at the "Marianum" and "Teresianum." Former president of the Italian Society for Theological Research (SIRT), she is currently director of the Costanza Scelfo Institute for the Problems of Laity and Women in the Church (Department of SIRT) and of the "Woman and Christianity" Chair at the Marianum Pontifical Theological Faculty. Her disciplinary interests are directed toward Mariology, ecclesiology (and related topics: laity, religious life, ecumenism, women's question) and the relationship ecclesiology-liturgy (and therein that between ecclesiology architecture and liturgy).
Several published volumes, either her own or from she edited. More than 250 scientific articles. Recent publications include: The Church. The Chrism body, EDB, Bologna 2013 (reprint); Women and theology: stocktaking of a century, EDB, Bologna 2004; The house of the people of God. Ecclesiological Models Architectural Models, EDB, Bologna 2006; Vatican II and the Interpretation of Women, EDB, Bologna 2007; Faces and Stories, Effata, Cantalupa (TO) 2009; The Dream of Vatican II, EDB, Bologna 2010; Virtues and Vices, San Paolo, Cinisello B. 2012; The Works of Mercy, San Paolo, Cinisello B. 2012.