[IL RICORDO] 4 years without Don Meli, Lorefice: «Witness messianic presence» – PHOTO

A passionate memory with testimonies and the homily of the Archbishop of Palermo Monsignor Corrado Lorefice who reiterated how Don Baldassare Meli was a “witness of a messianic presence”. Thus, on the fourth anniversary of the death of the priest of the Santa Lucia parish of Castelvetrano, Don Meli was remembered. An initiative organized in Palermo, a city that for a long time was the “home” of Don Meli, a Salesian at Santa Chiara in the Ballarò district of Palermo. A bus left from Castelvetrano with parishioners, the “Colibrì 2.0” group and friends of Don Meli. In the Cathedral the Holy Mass was concelebrated by Monsignor Lorefice, Monsignor Angelo Giurdanella (Bishop of Mazara del Vallo) and Monsignor Domenico Mogavero (emeritus of the Diocese of Mazara del Vallo). «Don Meli made him the cry of the little ones, of the requests that came from human flesh – said Lorefice – he was among the others». At the beginning of the celebration, Rosy Costa, one of the animators of the Santa Lucia parish and close to Don Meli until his death, traced the profile of the deceased parish priest, telling of Don Meli’s difficult path, especially after the complaints of pedophilia when he was in Santa Chiara . The holy mass was animated by an intercultural choir. After the celebration, at the Salesian house Santa Chiara in Palermo, a moment of remembrance of Don Meli was held and some women from different countries of the world who frequent the center offered the typical dishes of their culinary tradition.

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