The card. Matteo Zuppi, metropolitan archbishop of Bologna and president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, at the invitation of the bishop of Trieste, mons. Enrico Trevisi, will be in Trieste on Monday 29 April, at 5pm, in the church of Sant’Antonio Taumaturgo.
This visit follows the lectio magistralis on the theme “For peace. The resources of humanitarian diplomacy”, which, on the morning of the same day, the cardinal will hold at the Gorizia campus of the University of Trieste, in the year of the centenary of the Julian University.
The meeting with the diocesan and city community of Trieste is thought of as a moment of prayer and reflection and is placed in the context of the preparation process for the Social Week of Catholics in Italy, which will be held in Trieste from 3 to 7 July and will have as theme “At the heart of democracy: participating between history and future”.
“In communion with the entire Italian Catholic Church, in harmony with the prophetic stage of the Synodal Path, in the light of the Word of God of 1 Cor 12,12-30, we will listen – we read in a note from the diocese of Trieste – the words and reflection of the card. Zuppi on ‘Participate: building the Church and the city together’, as a single body of which we feel like important and precious members, participants in the lives of all the others for the health of the entire ecclesial and social body. The meeting will end with the prayer prepared by the bishop of Trieste Enrico Trevisi for the visit of the Holy Father Francis to our city, at the conclusion of the Social Week of Catholics in Italy, on 7 July”.
