End of an unending "Pilgrimage":
"I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith" (2 Timothy 4.71 ). These words of St.
Paul describes well the priestly life and mission of Mgr. Luigi Petris, born 1939, died at UD Ampezzo, on 21.12.2005, the tireless worker in the vineyard of the Lord
in which Providence had placed him - migration - after four years of pastoral service in his diocese of Udine , namely as coadjutor of his priestly ordination in Pontebba 1963.
reaches the autumn of 1967, in fact, Saarbruecken, the capital of the Saarland, Germany, as an employee of another priest from Friuli, Mgr. Micheloni Ascanio, who had founded the Italian Catholic Mission since 1954. And after two years it takes over in perfect agreement with Bishop Micheloni sent to another location, Costanza on Bodensee. I was then director of the Italian missionaries in Germany and so I went with him to Trier to present it to the Bishop and Curia at the beginning of its activity in Saarbruecken. Come back to Don Ascanio said: "you got a good priest to keep that account, and do very well." And I was wrong. Don Luis has made his first mission in that the best of his human qualities - dynamism, creativity, generosity, attention span and dialogue - and the characteristics of its
priesthood, a look of faith, love for the Church, the sense of community.
And it has been wrapped well in hard work and tenacious of his predecessor to the first moments of the Catholic mission in a Land very active and still disputed between France and Germany, the rest of the work awarded to public spending and the construction of the first great Church Centre Italian with the church.
Don Luigi perfects the work. He saw the basic needs of its people and is committed to the unity of the family, training human and Christian education of boys. Is therefore concerned with housing and create public support and cooperation of the faithful an effective network of Afterschool Italian, 15 in all for 1,300 boys. It favors the formation of associations around the mission with particular attention to the dialogue for integration into the local Church and wise in the host society, as well as other forms of association, Italian and local. Pastoral appreciation of the presence of the Franciscan Tertiary Sisters of Brixen also beginning to an educational activity for girls of the town and area, most of Sicily. He also discovers the importance of the media and cultivate positive relationships with local newspapers as well as collaborate with the Italian weekly in Germany, Corriere Italy.
Proud supporter of the specific values \u200b\u200bof its people, and encourages their active participation in the proposed society and the Church.
Twelve years of understanding and intelligent activity that escapes no one, least of the Italian Bishops, on the proposal for which the German Bishops' Conference in 1981 he was appointed "representative for the Italian missionaries in Germany", a task which is also attached to the pastoral care Scandinavian countries.
leave your beloved Mission Saarbruecken and settles in the House of the Delegation of Italian Catholic Missions in Germany, in Frankfurt, with new duties at the national level. There are 130 priests Italian, 90 Catholic missions, 500,000 Italian immigrants.
began ten years of intense dialogue with the German dioceses of continuous collaboration with the Italian Church, to build friendship with the Italian priests in Germany and Scandinavia, with strong education initiatives for priests, religious and laity, of collaboration with many bodies Church and lay at the national level.
Once again its positive action and encouraging its humanity force him to change.
In 1991 he was called to Rome at the Foundation CEI, Migrantes as National Director for the pastoral care of Italian migrants in the world. Until 1995 when the Permanent Council of CEI appointed him Director General the Foundation. In this new task intelligently and continuously monitor the areas of human mobility (Italian immigrants, foreign immigrants in Italy, Roma and Sinti, fieranti and circus, sea and airport), to coordinate and propose general guidelines for the implementation of pastoral activity and no in harmony with the pastoral programs of the Italian bishops in chief attention to the person and the family of the migrant.
E 'of the rest also secretary of the Commission for Ecclesiastical CEI Migrantes (CEMI), making the connection of thought and action between bishops and directors of the industry.
Son also the years of contacts and interventions at the international level, both nature of the Church as the Council of European Bishops' Conferences (CCEE) and civil as the General Council on Emigration (CGIE), besides the presence of the International Catholic Migration Commission in Geneva, Switzerland (CCIC). Ensures the connection with the national relevant international organizations, the Catholic Commission of Government for the Italian immigrants).
E 'Migrantes also actively present in the press, the migrant-press as editorial director and editor.
A tireless work of Don Luigi, carried out with pastoral concern and the priestly spirit.
I went to visit him at Ampezzo (UD) in the house of the brothers along with other relatives have witnessed an exemplary, out of gratitude and friendship. Without knowing it was the day before death. And I whispered with affection: "One day I presented to the Bishop of Trier in the host diocese, now I recommend to the Pastor of Pastors, Christ the Lord."
It really is appropriate the following words of S. Paul: "Now for me the crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me" (2 Timothy 4:8)
"I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith" (2 Timothy 4.71 ). These words of St.
Paul describes well the priestly life and mission of Mgr. Luigi Petris, born 1939, died at UD Ampezzo, on 21.12.2005, the tireless worker in the vineyard of the Lord
in which Providence had placed him - migration - after four years of pastoral service in his diocese of Udine , namely as coadjutor of his priestly ordination in Pontebba 1963. reaches the autumn of 1967, in fact, Saarbruecken, the capital of the Saarland, Germany, as an employee of another priest from Friuli, Mgr. Micheloni Ascanio, who had founded the Italian Catholic Mission since 1954. And after two years it takes over in perfect agreement with Bishop Micheloni sent to another location, Costanza on Bodensee. I was then director of the Italian missionaries in Germany and so I went with him to Trier to present it to the Bishop and Curia at the beginning of its activity in Saarbruecken. Come back to Don Ascanio said: "you got a good priest to keep that account, and do very well." And I was wrong. Don Luis has made his first mission in that the best of his human qualities - dynamism, creativity, generosity, attention span and dialogue - and the characteristics of its
priesthood, a look of faith, love for the Church, the sense of community. And it has been wrapped well in hard work and tenacious of his predecessor to the first moments of the Catholic mission in a Land very active and still disputed between France and Germany, the rest of the work awarded to public spending and the construction of the first great Church Centre Italian with the church.
Don Luigi perfects the work. He saw the basic needs of its people and is committed to the unity of the family, training human and Christian education of boys. Is therefore concerned with housing and create public support and cooperation of the faithful an effective network of Afterschool Italian, 15 in all for 1,300 boys. It favors the formation of associations around the mission with particular attention to the dialogue for integration into the local Church and wise in the host society, as well as other forms of association, Italian and local. Pastoral appreciation of the presence of the Franciscan Tertiary Sisters of Brixen also beginning to an educational activity for girls of the town and area, most of Sicily. He also discovers the importance of the media and cultivate positive relationships with local newspapers as well as collaborate with the Italian weekly in Germany, Corriere Italy.
Proud supporter of the specific values \u200b\u200bof its people, and encourages their active participation in the proposed society and the Church.
Twelve years of understanding and intelligent activity that escapes no one, least of the Italian Bishops, on the proposal for which the German Bishops' Conference in 1981 he was appointed "representative for the Italian missionaries in Germany", a task which is also attached to the pastoral care Scandinavian countries.
leave your beloved Mission Saarbruecken and settles in the House of the Delegation of Italian Catholic Missions in Germany, in Frankfurt, with new duties at the national level. There are 130 priests Italian, 90 Catholic missions, 500,000 Italian immigrants.
began ten years of intense dialogue with the German dioceses of continuous collaboration with the Italian Church, to build friendship with the Italian priests in Germany and Scandinavia, with strong education initiatives for priests, religious and laity, of collaboration with many bodies Church and lay at the national level.
Once again its positive action and encouraging its humanity force him to change.
In 1991 he was called to Rome at the Foundation CEI, Migrantes as National Director for the pastoral care of Italian migrants in the world. Until 1995 when the Permanent Council of CEI appointed him Director General the Foundation. In this new task intelligently and continuously monitor the areas of human mobility (Italian immigrants, foreign immigrants in Italy, Roma and Sinti, fieranti and circus, sea and airport), to coordinate and propose general guidelines for the implementation of pastoral activity and no in harmony with the pastoral programs of the Italian bishops in chief attention to the person and the family of the migrant.
E 'of the rest also secretary of the Commission for Ecclesiastical CEI Migrantes (CEMI), making the connection of thought and action between bishops and directors of the industry. Son also the years of contacts and interventions at the international level, both nature of the Church as the Council of European Bishops' Conferences (CCEE) and civil as the General Council on Emigration (CGIE), besides the presence of the International Catholic Migration Commission in Geneva, Switzerland (CCIC). Ensures the connection with the national relevant international organizations, the Catholic Commission of Government for the Italian immigrants).
E 'Migrantes also actively present in the press, the migrant-press as editorial director and editor.
A tireless work of Don Luigi, carried out with pastoral concern and the priestly spirit.
I went to visit him at Ampezzo (UD) in the house of the brothers along with other relatives have witnessed an exemplary, out of gratitude and friendship. Without knowing it was the day before death. And I whispered with affection: "One day I presented to the Bishop of Trier in the host diocese, now I recommend to the Pastor of Pastors, Christ the Lord."
It really is appropriate the following words of S. Paul: "Now for me the crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me" (2 Timothy 4:8)
MONS. Silvia Ridolfi
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