Pilgrimage to Mount Virgin
personal notes and digressions.
The traditional climb to Monte Vergine that the last Thursday of May from San Cipriano Picentino (SA) and arrives at the Sanctuary of Monte Vergine Avellino goes back at least fifty years. The route is about seventy kilometers, starting from early in the morning (three - four) to the Sacred top eight o'clock at night, In my country we were in the three to join the large group composed of two - three hundred people , we did not expect such participation, and now with my country takes out a comment: "Who knew? For years and years that pass through a small stretch of Montoro and no one has ever said ... "Together about the diagnosis of why we were agree in saying that nowadays you do not advertise nor do they highlight the good and beautiful things, here are three hundred Eugene told us and nobody will care if they speak on the following day whereas just one throws a stone from overpass and this will be discussed for days in radio and television. Good reason to Plato in his Republic had established the general rule pedagogical never put out the evil and error and speak only when necessary and where you can do something to eliminate or reduce it. I wonder now, what need is there to show how depraved four video shot inside a house spend the time? or is there just to talk the occasion of 'last rape on television? At this rate, negativity and pessimism are going to change the negative perception of natural reality but metaphysics reminds us that each entity (the thing created - what it is) has three requirements: good - true - and good about what I have to say that the pilgrimage has the merit of good will recall to mind this metaphysical definition of reality. Now go back down to earth on the road of our pilgrimage, where occasionally some improvised Rosario, did not look at me when I say that not even the unknown faces of my fellow prayer, we were one spirit and that was enough for me, of course I grieved a bit 'at certain moments the part of some person of high dignity of being undisciplined el'inconsapevolezza-Catholic Christians: scantily clad could be seen occasionally here and there and a general increase svacca was produced every time we stopped in a rest stop and rest . However, the hardening of those people was really good, for a simple man, gruff and good wine is offered and clumsy ... gruff answers: Do I have to foil the Madonna!. With this kind of people I just talk to us because it seems almost to pollute their natural and unconscious moral rectitude with sophistry and useless chatter. I'm sure that even the most learned and fine spirit avran found it convenient to adapt to the narrowness of the environment (People-farmer) to jump without fear and shame in shouting vulgar jubilation and devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Not only in the mountainous traverse our pilgrimage but also often passed through the villages inhabited, for example, we went for the course of Avellino and there I was moved, sang in choirs alternate men and women a long and ancient song-prayer in here here some verse (in Italian): "Women: Come on with the cool and the sun, let's go find Mom Schiavone - A walk to walk back to Mount Virgin is good to go; Men: confess and communicate, the 'we want to save our souls; Women: O how beautiful you are Madonna, you're dressed as a young monk; Men: Dressed in fine silk, give us grace so my Lady. "As it was sweet and clear as the chorus of women and was noisy and confusing chorus of men! and as in the male partner dance moves steps rather than to have fun and dance around to see his woman again so we were forced to sing non-stop for those still hear white voices, what then passed for the mind of women do not know tell you. Avellino there on the course seemed to be with the southern insurgents led by Cardinal Ruffo, who exposed itself to the head of 25,000 men, marched under the banners of St. Anthony Glorioso throughout the South of Italy to enter the final victory in Naples on June 13, 1799 (Feast of St. Anthony). I happened to see similar occurrences in popular non-religious and ideological infiltration of leftist elements but just tried to sing "Hello Beautiful" they were badly treated by the old group because they said, the Communists were stealing the land! How well are often those that go away to the sanctuary (often the same) only to get drunk and play the drums and so the communist dream of riding the shame of the people is excised from the reactionary spirit is not well calculated for the working class. On the journey with us, there was also a priest, unfortunately unrecognizable from his civilian clothes, many people do not even know and who knows how many during the way they would approach him to confess if they had known, once the priests fought to snatch souls from the devil, but now who knows with those who fight, if fighting, my Lady give us holy priests and Holy Family. Advancing from the slopes of the mountain to the shrine there is a path that I call "the scalzatoio" because there the pilgrims used to take off your shoes and go barefoot on sharp stones and several of our group have also offered this additional sacrifice to the Virgin Mary. Once at the top we stopped for almost an hour a few hundred meters before the sanctuary awaiting the arrival of pilgrims past and at that point we were all meeting procession, we were so full of ourselves ... but we had emptied of everything (drop)! But this is normal and accurately highlighting the perennial theology ever for that - the man is the only creature that God willed for itself - that's when the man then becomes a gift and all it offers to as it were "together" because it obeys an order exceeds pre-addressing of his own being and find the peace of who does the will of God we are always down to earth (we are reminded of the cold) and when stronger throughout the day has just begun, having excited the minds of the Shrine, there in front of a hundred of people waiting for us to not miss this historic event, we all bunched up in procession, part of the continuation of the song with additional verses that specifically say the shrine, the pilgrims reached the Holy Stairs go up while kissing each step. This time from below creates a beautiful stage, a branch seems to dam up and moving is not over! At the first step of the entrance and knelt on his knees on the ground is always proceeds to the altar singing .... also followed or alternated singing litanies were sung in Latin slurred speech but all responded, as he does! even if you do not understand what is important is to enter the dimension of prayer, to feel close God that's what counts. Benedictine priests celebrated the Mass of the place; intronatosi The preacher in a chair in the place of Jesus in the Tabernacle will be a lecture along the lines of confrontation Jesus - Mary. In practice say that if we did all that just to make a pilgrimage to Our Lady and vow not to ask her to make us love more than Jesus would not be served anything at all ... nothing to see? I hope it is not well weighed words, because the Christ of faith is never separated from Mary, the Madonna is assumed that leads us to Jesus, we praise praise Jesus and Mary Mary just as he points out the Montfort commenting on the visit of Mary Santa Elisabetta, Elisabetta If not Maria says she praised the Montfort would not be raised to the sky that beautiful hymn of thanksgiving to the Lord who is the Magnificat. If we put ourselves often in the spiritual presence of Our Lady in prayer She will soon be done to create in us the spiritual characteristics of Christ his Son, thus making them acceptable to God, is Cristi - trainer! What contrast between Christ and Mary then?! As Paul said sixth if we are Christians we must be Mariani. In any case, the fervor of those people was immovable and at the end of the Mass as it wants the practice to the contrary we left without taking his eyes off that miracle and blessed part of Our Lady of Mount Virgin. At least five buses to take you back at home, come back next year and if we return we have already pleaded with the song "If I is not coming next year - Madonna I do not forget me." then it is certain that in one way or another we will be under the beneficent influence of our good Heavenly Mother, and this is enough to roots with certainty in the hope of achieving our ultimate goal: God!
Francesco Diana.
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