Progress in the life of Sister Luisa Dell’Orto a year after her sacrifice

A stained glass window in the parish church and the naming of the municipal playground. Through these important gestures, the Christian and civil community of Lomagna in the Brinza region of Lecco remember the Sisters in recent times luisa del’ortoGospel’s younger sister was born in the village in 1957 and was brutally murdered in Haiti a year earlier on June 25, two days before her 65th birthday.

Cardinal in the Church of Santi Pietro e Paolo Oscar CantoniThe Bishop of Como celebrated a solemn Eucharist on Saturday 24 June, before which prayers were offered in the cemetery where Don Vittorio Ferrari, his friend and ordination partner, and Sister Luisa rest. “Whoever gives his life to the Lord Jesus Christ has not perfected his choice, but has long developed it,” underlined Cantoni before opening and blessing the stained glass window, in which the nun is depicted with Jesus. Depicted under the gaze of the deity, to whom he dedicated his life. The style of Charles de Foucauld.

Window in the Parish Church of Lomagna – Don A. restelli

instead on Sunday 25 in the presence of the mayor Christine Citterioof the prefect of Lecco sergius pomponiofamily members (sisters) carmen, mary adelefather brother Joseph, Barnabite religious) and some sisters of Sister Luisa, the naming ceremony of the playground via Silvio Pellico. Plaque, blessed by the parish priest Don Andrea Restelliwritten in creole kenbe fame (Pause): An invitation to revive the memory of the woman who in twenty years of missionary service to the Haitian people has sown the seeds of new life for children and youth in social and emotional circumstances of extreme hardship.

A moment from the naming ceremony – D&F Cernusko

But Sister Luisa’s memories go far beyond the borders of her country of origin. Tomorrow, Tuesday 27 June, at the Monastery of San Francesco in San Giovanni in Persicito (Bologna), the correspondent of to come lucia capuzzi book submission Universal Sister. Luisa Dell’Orto: woman, philosopher and martyr”, This volume is published with a foreword by San Paolo marcus tarquinius, begins with the human experience of Sister Luisa to present an original synthesis on the meaning of mission. The event was enriched by a video message from the Archbishop of Bologna, Cardinal matteo zuppi

Who remembered the powerful message of fraternity given by Sister Luisa.

Zuppi attends the presentation of the book by Lucia Capuzzi – assistant Italo Calvino and Terre d’Acqua