Non ci siamo mai conosciuti “dal vivo”, ma se dovessi dare il primo nome che mi viene in mente alla condotta di un vero cristiano, di uno che conduce la propria vita con il vangelo in mano e nel cuore, beh…quello sarebbe Don Andrea Gallo , ed evocherebbe subito l’immagine di quell’uomo in abito da prete, col red scarf around his neck and a cigar in his right hand, and a stentorian voice trailed well in a Genoese, who screams in the face of respectability right-thinking his ignorance and his cowardice, but with the sweet look of forgiveness and always ready to accept in its community of San Benedetto al Porto in Genoa , everyone, absolutely everyone, from toxic, prostitutes, gypsies, immigrants, all those characters who populate the poetry of another of his great friend, who died ten years ago, and whose voice I can not do without, Fabrizio De André .
against a priest, " angelically anarchist "(As he described himself in a book), the" priest of the past ", the ones that society rejects, which likes to call a subtle form of complacency" different "and that he feels close to him as well if sinners ...
E 'nice what he said to his celebration yesterday (early twenty hours per common).
was reported verbatim: "I did bullshit, but I was always on the side rights . The worst thing is indifference , so I say to all: on the head. " Andrea Gallo priest, happily eighty ("Okay boys, there is still some twenty hours, but tagliamoci 'is pie "), even before the first sailor and even partisan" and my master was my brother, Dino, there he sat, he was great, seven years more: and the motto our brigade was "dare to hope," and is still valid today. 80 years to see that democracy is subject to security: no, no, we did not. Times are bad, but we have a compass, ie Constitution, the first twelve articles I will recite prayers after the other, I also called the Cardinal Tettamanzi. Then there are Jesus and the Gospel , compasses other important but, like the grain of wheat, must remain hidden in the deep. " Pretty uncomfortable, the last priest. "Communist? Oh, Madonna! Socialist? Last of the anti-globalization? I have been assigned many labels - he said - but I did not choose an ideology, in 20 years I have chosen Jesus, we exchanged business cards and was written on his 'I have come to serve and not to be served ' ".
Greetings Don Andrea and thank you, what you do and say people like you make life an eternal agnostic, doubtful and pessimistic as I do to be less hard and more hopeful ... ... Gramscian Christian !
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