After receiving episcopal ordination, on 26 January Monsignor Franco Moscone will begin his pastoral ministry in the Diocese of Manfredonia – Vieste – San Giovanni Rotondo. The new Archbishop will be welcomed at the Basilica of S. Maria di Siponto by the Chapter of the Cathedral of Manfredonia, by that…...
Monuments looking for an actor: the video
Can monuments be able to speak? This is what the project “Monuments in search of an actor” aims for: a calendar of events aimed at discovering the spiritual and historical messages that preserve the “stones” of the centuries-old monuments of the City of the Archangel through music and prose. Sunday,…...
Episcopum!
On the afternoon of 12 January Fr. Franco Moscone received the episcopal consecration for the laying on of hands of Bishop Marco Brunetti, bishop of Alba, Msgr. Andrzej Suski, bishop emeritus of Torun (Poland), and of Msgr. Donato Negro, Archbishop of Otranto and president of the Apulian Episcopal Conference. Numerous…...
Peregrinatio for images
The Peregrinatio of the statue and the sword of the Archangel is increasingly taking on the connotations of a special event that mobilizes thousands of faithful and, above all, conveys the Michaelic message of fidelity to God against the assaults of evil. Within a month the Prince’s statue visited two…...
The Feast of St. Michael for images!
Joy, prayer, participation, sonship, devotion, gratitude, faith: some of the numerous nouns that can define the Feast of the Archangel Michael and that, in the contents, can represent its legacy. During the novena the ecclesial communities of Monte Sant’Angelo and neighboring cities, together with the many faithful who came from…...
Be a sign of God!
On Saturday 22 September, the September novena was enriched with an exquisitely vocational meaning: the novice Pier Paolo Latini and the seminarian Jaroslaw Lechininski issued the first and renewed the second, their religious vows. A celebration of and in the family: the two young men have, in fact, promised God…...
Inauguration of the new pipe organ
The Shrine of the Archangel Michael is unanimously recognized as a wonderful and unique place in the world. For centuries the Sacred Grotto has welcomed thousands of pilgrims who, wishing for peace, mercy and forgiveness, experience the encounter with Jesus in the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist, as well…...