Homily of bishop Domenico Sorrentino

Not long ago I was coming form a meeting of Caritas, which centered on the crisis that is worrying our times, especially the poor. For them too I read a passage of Nehemiah, not the one that was proclaimed here, but the passage where, facing the challenges of the social crisis, the governor, this time, calls for fidelity and says: “It is a time of global renewal that may touch our hearts and give to our relations a timber of greater fraternity, under the sign of a reciprocal forgiveness of our debts” (cf. Ne 5,1–13), under the sign of a truly common journey, in which we can say with Paul: “May our only debt be mutual love” (cf. Rm 13,8). May this be what is experienced here in this place, in this “Bose of Assisi”. May it be above all the love drawn from the Word and nourished by the Eucharist.

Thank you, dearly beloved, thank you, the sisters too, who will not be here, but who today give us the gift of their presence and who certainly will be here spiritually. Thank you also, the people of God who have wanted to welcome in such a festive manner this new community.

In a little while we will bless the altar. The altar is Jesus, the solid rock that we cling to, the solid rock on which we build. May the Lord Jesus be always the foundation of this house and of this Church. Amen.

mgr. Domenico Sorrentino
bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino