The Archbishop of Milan, monsignor Mario DelpiniSaturday 8 June, at 9 am in the Duomo in Milan, will order 17 new priests of the Ambrosian Diocese. Among these is the well-known Legnano area Giole Asquini, 34 years old, from the parish of San Paolo di Legnano. The celebration in the Duomo will be broadcast live on Telenova (digital terrestrial channel 18) and in streaming on www.chiesadimilano.it It is on Youtube channel. On June 20th, at 11.45am, in the weekday chapel Cathedral, the Archbishop will inform the new priests of the parishes in which they will carry out their ministry.
In addition to the family members of the future priests, the friends and faithful of the parishes of origin and those in which the seminarians carried out their first pastoral experiences will participate in the solemn celebration. After the Mass, the new priests will be celebrated, as per tradition, outside the Cathedral. «In the vast majority of cases the spark for the vocation – explains Don Luca Andreini, spiritual father of the four-year seminar – arose from the meeting with a specific person: the life of a priest, a provocative question or the sharing of a profound experience . The intuition of one’s vocation always appears as a question that opens up, like a doubt that creeps into one’s present, like a life that arouses fascination and desire.”
The new priests
Five new priests come from Pastoral Zone IV (Rho), four from Zone II (Varese), three from Zone I (Milan) and V (Monza), one from Zone VI (Melegnano), while one comes from Nicaragua and has completed the last part of the training course in Venegono. Below is the name, age and origin of the 17 ordinands: Michele Ascari, 37 years old, from Giussano (MB), pastoral community of San Paolo di Giussano; Giole Asquini, 34 years old, from Legnano, parish of San Paolo di Legnano; Davide Beretta, 28 years old, from Carnate (MB), pastoral community Madonna del Carmine of Carnate; Paolo Bottelli, 31 years old, from Varese, pastoral community Beato Samuele Marzorati of Varese; Matteo Foppoli, 29 years old, from Milan, parish of Santa Francesca Romana in Milan; Marco Garrini, 26 years old, from Milan, All Saints parish of Milan; Andrea Giuliani, 29 years old, from Inzago (MI), parish of Santa Maria Assunta of Inzago; Edoardo Mauri, 26 years old, from Desio (MB), parish of San Pio Manuel Mazzucco, 28 years old, from Milan, parish of San Gottardo al Corso in Milan; Stefano Pedroli, 30 years old, from Varese, pastoral community of Sant’Antonio Abate; Patrick Pescialli, 26 years old, from Cornaredo (MI), parish of San Pietro in San Pietro all’Olmo in Cornaredo; Ludovico Pileci, 24 years old, from Ispra (VA), parish of San Martino di Ispra; Alessandro Tacchi, 26 years old, from Vanzaghello (MI), parish of Sant’Ambrogio di Vanzaghello; Piercarlo Tettamanti, 25 years old, from Beregazzo con Figliaro (CO), parish of Saints Ilario and Remigio of Beregazzo con Figliaro; Erick Torres Torres, 32 years old, of the Diocese of Juigalpa (Nicaragua); Federico Valvassori, 30 years old, from Boffalora sopra Ticino (MI), parish of Santo Stefano di Santo Stefano Ticino; Matteo Viscomi, 27 years old, from Senago (MI), parish of Santa Maria Assunta of Senago.
Together with the new diocesan priests, two Capuchin Friars Minor will receive the sacrament of presbyteral order, a religious belonging to the Congregation of Charity Schools – Cavanis Institute and a young Italian from the Diocese of Huari (Peru) belonging to Operation Mato Grosso.
