“We need the courage to make strong choices” (VIDEO)

Now it’s official. The new bishop from the Diocese of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea is don Attilio Nostro, since 2014 parish priest a San Mattia in Rome ma native to of Calabria, by Palmi. The choice of Pope francesco – after all tensions which led to the resignation of the previous bishop Monsignor Luigi Renzo (we talked about it WHO) – was therefore to choose a person outside Calabria but who loved it, who was tied to it, so as to better hold one Local church that absolutely needs a real “Revolution”Of the way of understanding relations with the population and also within the clergy. A “shepherd”, capable of strong choices, that was it stranger at – sometimes harmful – local logic.

Who is the new bishop.

1 meter and 90 high, Recently turned 55, teacher of religion at the scientific institute “Nomentano”. He obtained a Baccalaureate in Philosophy and Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University and was ordained priest gives Pope John Paul II on 2 May of 1993. Lived in Palmi, a place that defines “wonderfully beautiful“. A passion for the basketball which leads him, every summer, “to return to Calabria to play a tournament with my old teammates”. A approach to faith happened mainly as an adult, because – he said in an interview with “L’Ora Solare” on Tv2000 last November (the video above, ed) – “I was looking for answers that I could not find” after death of the brother Francis. “To seek answers, I arrived in Assisi”, where the story of Mary’s “yes” – described “as a young girl still immature perhaps for her age, certainly not for her courage, because he had said yes to a crazy, crazy project“- it affects him deeply:”From that day on I realized how important it was to have the courage to make strong choices, which also involve the person, even all the projects that one has done “.

Closeness to young people.

In the past he was on his way to doing the business consultant, “But as far as they are messy I would have ended up in jail “, jokes always on Tv2000. His recently mission was close to young people. In addition to teaching in schools, since 2014, he tells of his joy in the oratory: “What fascinated me the most was the oratory, i young, the teenagers“. And tells with pride when in thesummer of 2020, a difficult period due to the Coronavirus pandemic, even with all the precautions and respecting the anti Covid measures “we have kept the oratory open for 9 weeks, we were the only oratory in Rome that managed to do this: I’m very happy of the fact that that place has become a landmark for the neighborhood “.

The humility and the “fun” of God.

And to the compliments he receives, even during the broadcast, he responds with great humility: “The thing I notice is that God enjoys our poverties to show how large is it: it is true that people can have a wrong impression of me that I am bravo, in gamba, that I can do everything. It is not so. Is that Gave and amuses a make us capable of great acts of joy where sadness would reign“.
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