The message of the month
of don Angel Caligiore
"We have seen his/her star in the east and we have come to adore him/it" they Say the magis, the wise, those people that learn from the study and from the scientific search the rules of the way of living. And I am able of to cross kilometers to see and to adore the Welcome stranger. As this rule of study and search it is stupendous: that that you know, the verità that you discover, your Lord, the savior of your health and from your felicità . These people we are consulted to welcome this internal and personal coherence Among him "study and the lived one?"
Padre Angelo Caligiore
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Mr., Almighty and Eternal, source of every Holiness, that you have given Martyr to the Saint Sebastiano the strength to testify up to the last one the Gospel of the salvation of the man, called in the Christ to liberty and justice, you also grant to us to be freed by every ambition and rivalry and to walk in the light and in the sequence of the Gospel to build Your Kingdom of peace.
From about 1700 years the Church reveres St. Sebastiano, martyr in the city of Rome and, at the same time it is unknown for his/her origins and for the biography, that is unknown, in defective way, for a' work written by an author of the V century d.c..
The modest documents agiograficis manifest the fedeltà of the Church to the signs of devotion handed down by the Christian people and by the monumental patrimony in Rome, that preserve still the basilica of S.Sebastiano along the street Appia.
The first document that signals the cult to S.Sebastiano, celebrated on January 20, and that it testifies the burial of its body on the street Appia in catacumba the Depositio martyrum of the 354 d.c..
To know what you has made S.Sebastiano it needs to apply to others two back documents. The first one the comment of S.Ambrogio to the psalm II8 and the second the Passion and the Actions of the martyrdom, that, it probably goes up again to an anonymous monk of the V° century d.c.. In these two documents we can know the human qualities that allow the authors to reflect on the Christian fight and on the duty to set the daily life to service of the Gospel. S.Ambrogio says: We take the example of the martyr Sebastiano, of which applies today the Christmas day for the eternal life. He was born in Milan, where perhaps the persecutore had not come yet or if you had not gotten further, or it was rather moderate. Sebastiano realized that here the fight there would not have been or you would have been tired. You depart therefore for Rome, where they raged sour persecutions against our faith; ivi suffered the martyrdom, that is it had its crown.
The Passion says that:
The Sebastianos it is an appreciated soldier so much from the emperors Diocleziano and Max that elect him commander of the first cohort pretoria;
2 Sebastiano hocks him to sustain the faith of the Christians, condemned to the martyrdom, and prompt to the conversion those people that, in various way, they are next to the convicts.
3 Sebastiano declares to Diocleziano, that reproaches him, to always have been faithful to the empire and to pray to the salvation in Rome;
4 - Sebastiano is condemned by Diocleziano to be riddled by the arrows as a porcupine from his stings and since not death subsequently,
5 were struck to death in the racecourse of the imperial building and his you was thrown in the cloaca maxima. These news allows the Church, to teach that a holy ¨ a teacher of life and a coherent person among what believes and that that ago.
In fact, S.Sebastiano freely chose of:
- to go to Rome; - to approach the martyrs and to comfort them in the faith;
- to pray for the good of Rome and the emperor;
- to present himselfthemselves to Diocleziano, after the first martyrdom and the recovery, to solicit anchors it to the conversion.
In the preceding years we have set to the citizens of Palazzolo Acreide the following questions:
The - the devotion to S.Sebastiano has influenced your life?
2 the thought of S.Sebastiano, unjustly condemned, has you helped you to bear some offense? People has responded to the two questions, communicating that the example of S.Sebastiano has positively influenced the behavior of the personal life and you has favored the patience of offenses receipts for the 2/3 of the interviewed ones.
Sac. Angelo Caligiore
Parish Priest of the Basilica of St. Sebastian:
Montepaschi di Siena(Agenzia di Palazzolo Acreide)
Iban: IT61n0103084760 000001283553
Intestato a: Basilica San Sebastiano
(specificando la causale e il tuo indirizzo)
