was not a man for the big windows. His superiors, thinking about the way how to use it, imagined for him, more and less important assignments.
Sometimes, in the Church, what happens does not seem to have a precise meaning. This, however, in the eyes of those who, to assess, using the usual measure of human feeling. Neglects, in fact, that behind every decision you hide the transcendence of the divine knowledge. There is always, therefore, a precise determination. That is, to allocate everything in the right place because you accomplish a precise plan. And, just thinking about this, as inconsistency dissolves, any disharmony revert the order of the melody which will win and make you understand.
A father Antonino Nastasi, on the other, in a ceremony of thanks to those who had shared with him the joy of the order, the mother had expressed wishes for some kind of allegations. No. At the end of his speech, as a good omen, had given the message that's delivered with three symbols that represent their meaning.
In his simplicity he said, 'Son, I give you a white lily because of its candor that you can play your soul, a violet because of his humility could make a rule e un ramo di acuminate spine perché tu sappia quanto difficile sia il cammino che porta a Dio.
Il giovane sacerdote, dopo provvisori incarichi di supporto in varie parrocchie, venne destinato a Braidi, una piccolissima frazione di Montalbano Elicona. Nascosta tra le irte pendici dei monti Nebrodi e servita solo da viottoli e mulattiere. Raggiunse Falcone in treno e poi in cammino, a piedi, con il peso della sua valigia. Dopo una sosta per dormire, in un’aia dove i contadini trebbiavano le messi, alle prime luci dell’alba, entrò nell’abitato di Braidi.
Solo un gruppo di case, sparse qua e là per le campagne, una piccola chiesa ed un buon numero di persone, per lo più contadine.
Il tempo di rendersi conto della realtà nella quale era chiamato ad operare, dei tantissimi bisogni esistenti , anche i più elementari, di apprezzare la bontà di quella brava gente che portò sempre nel cuore e poi un trasferimento.
Santissimo Salvatore, una frazione del comune di Rocca Valdina, ancora più piccola di Braidi.
Di essa, le cartine geografiche, anche le più dettagliate, non facevano alcuna menzione. E c’era più che una ragione per non farla. Si trattava infatti di un aggregato di casette, di tipo agricolo, posto sulla riva destra del torrente S. Salvatore, capace di accogliere un centinaio di persone. Poco più, poco meno. Nessuna strada. Solo viottoli a fondo interrato. L’acqua per bere, per le pulizie, veniva attinta da qualche pozzo. Niente fognatura. Il modo come rischiarare l’interno di quelle piccole case era quello del dopo guerra: qualche lume a petrolio e per il resto piccole “lumere” ad olio.
Una stanza attrezzata a cappella ed una campana erano gli strumenti a disposizione del giovane parroco.
In compenso, tra tanta penuria, scoprì tanto amore tra la gente. Nel suo animo scattò come una molla. In maniera forte e prorompente esplose in lui l’esigenza di dare aiuto a quella gente della quale si sentiva sempre più padre e custode. Pensò di sensibilizzare le autorità comunali, di indurle a riflettere sullo stato di insopportabile disagio nel quale vivevano those people. He shouted to all and in all places respect for human dignity. He spoke of human responsibility and moral. He did it with what the man had Nastasi in: courage, strength and willingness to fight for the protection of those inalienable values.
Many fine words in response. We will see many, many will. In reality, no concrete action and that, increasingly exacerbating his soul, gave him a further boost to insist, to fight the good fight.
He decided to give substance to his initiative. He thought of leading a real protest movement. So peaceful, as decided.
the early hours of dawn of an established day, with the vigorous ringing of her bell gathered around the church all his parishioners. Men, women and children that many mothers brought in baskets tied behind the back. He gave them a brief speech. On his way, vibrated, and convincingly, why not moving. He said that their task was only to follow it. With great dignity and without events broken down. It was up to him alone to talk, just had to be his responsibility.
were all present those of S. Savior. Obedient and faithful around the young priest who, increasingly, it appeared to their eyes as the symbol of their freedom, their rights. To achieve
Rocca Valdina there was no other if not inaccessible paths that we all knew. Around eight o'clock all were in the square outside the town hall. Nastasi father thought that some of his own parishioners, "if it was sung because there waiting for them, not only found the Mayor and other administrators as well as Lieutenant of Police with many men, equipped to stave off any manifestation of disorder .
Ben knew that the officer in charge of that movement was the young priest. Indeed, he spoke with the admonition to dissolve immediately quell'adunanza people. Nastasi father showed no signs of slowing down. Recognized as an unorthodox but his initiative, his heart in his hand, asked the lieutenant to see the state of need of those people, to voice and if it falls within its powers to certify that its inhumane and unsustainable situation.
man in uniform, all in one piece, shown to have feelings of deep understanding and a strong sense of professional responsibility and ethics.
followed his father to San Salvatore Nastasi, took note of the seriousness of the situation and then became the star of several reports that paved the way for a new era.
Since then, father Nastasi establish relations with various politicians. Attitudes towards them but never allegiance. For them, he kept the back straight but jovial and pleasant ways. He often said: the politicians, being with me and engaging with the needs of the weak have learned to regard their task as a task assigned by God
Since they had the aid so they could make mains, sewers, waterworks, roads internal and connection, a new church, schools, housing, works for the leisure of young people and anything else necessary to the population, meanwhile, was growing in population and civic consciousness. This
Nastasi the man. What, in the silence, it was appreciated, admired and loved for the depth of his feelings and for their generosity, even of his niente.
La statura della sua personalità, pur se lievitata senza osanna, sembrava avesse finito col isolare entro limiti angusti ed impropri, la spiritualità profonda che animava invece il Nastasi sacerdote. È motivo assai ricorrente, infatti, che i riflettori orientati sugli aspetti più appariscenti di un individuo finiscono con l’oscurarne i valori più nobili, quelli su cui si fonda la dimensione spirituale della sua anima.
Le sue omelie, intense, toccanti, dense di riferimenti biblici ed accostamenti alla vita dell’uomo, erano una sorta di biglietto da visita del suo essere sacerdote. Un modo, quasi, di pregare a voce alta, una maniera forte ed incisiva per trasferire nell’animo the strength of its faithful to the Word of God is a prayer that made it more intense, to the sublime, with the singing of its choir.
And when, towering above the moments of apparent aridity of the soul, thought, liked to recall, I possess a refuge: the moral, the central point of human life and the good Christian.
Nastasi Goodbye Father, through the power of your mind, for humility raccomandatati from your mom, God, Father of the humble and strong, appreciating the difficulties experienced on the path that leads to Him, we are more than certain, it will become that crown of thorns in the crown that encircles the righteous.
Peppino Scibilia
San Pier Niceto 11.06.2010
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