“I thought of writing you certainly not a ‘recipe’ with ready-made ingredients or an ‘instruction booklet’ on good governance. It’s not my job or my intention. I just want to knock on your door to share with you, almost ‘out loud’, some thoughts that are ‘whirling’ in my head.” The archbishop of Agrigento, mons. Alessandro Damiano, to the newly elected mayors and members of the municipal councils of the towns of Alessandria della Rocca, Caltabellotta, Campobello di Licata, Naro, Racalmuto and Sant’Elisabetta, the day after the administrative elections with “the best wishes for peace and all good ” underlining that “I do this as bishop of this diocese of Agrigento, but also as a citizen who has his sisters and brothers in humanity at heart”.
For the Agrigento prelate “both the Christian and political and civil communities share ‘the passion for man’, for the whole man – for the integral man – and for every man, with his very concrete and unique face, together ‘with the care and promotion of the common good’”. For the Magisterium of the Church – recalls Mgr. Damiano – the common good is “the set of those conditions of social life that allow groups, as well as individual members, to reach their perfection more fully and more quickly”, as we read in Gaudium et spes. “Taking care of a beautiful and good environment, oxygenated with respect and care for every creature – writes the prelate – is a common good, it is an integral human and humanising ecology. Only by putting the ‘common good’ before personal or partial gain can we truly concretely and laboriously build, day after day, the ‘city of men’, so that it is an increasingly lovable and habitable, human and humanising city”. Hence the Archbishop of Agrigento’s wish for “good and fruitful work”: “may you, with the help of God, be weavers of good, healthy, healing relationships and, therefore, be weavers of hope!”.
 to the new mayors, “may you be weavers of good, healthy, healing relationships and, therefore, of hope!”){kind=link}