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Cardinal Krajewski presided over the celebration of the suffrage Mass for Don Roberto Malgesini in the Cathedral of Como – Michele Luppi
The Pope’s beggar, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski presided this morning, in the Cathedral of Como, the celebration of the suffrage Mass for Don Roberto Malgesini. Bishop Oscar Cantoni and the diocesan presbytery concelebrated in the presence of civil, military and faithful authorities.
«I welcome you all with gratitude – was the initial greeting of Bishop of Como, Oscar Cantoni -. We offer our pain for our beloved Don Roberto. The Holy Father Francis – added the prelate – prays, suffers and rejoices with us. He is present here through the person of Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, who presides over this liturgy and is the one who distributes the Pope’s charity throughout the world. We thank Pope Francis for his closeness, which is a consolation for us.
In addition to the Cathedral, the faithful gathered in three squares to participate in Mass through the maxi screens. The presence of volunteers and charities, who shared the daily commitment with Don Roberto and who are now taking over from him, the faithful of the parishes where Don Roberto developed his pastoral care and the many people he met Tireless and silent work at the service of the most fragile. In the first benches of the Cathedral, pressed together in their pain, Don Roberto’s sister, Caterina, and the brothers Mario and Enrico.
Faithful in the Cathedral of Como – Michele Luppi
“Mom and Dad are not here among us – said the bishop – I ask you to bring me once again my affectionate hug.” A hug that will be concrete. As the Pope’s own beggar has announced, this afternoon, in a strictly private manner, he will meet with them “to console them and kiss their hands.”Cardinal Krajewski said at the end of the mass.
“Don Roberto’s sacrifice – was the emphasis of the bishop in his homily – was a sacrifice of love that opens up to the Church and to the whole of society the possibility of an extraordinary, unimaginable fruitfulness, which it is up to all of us to develop with determined evangelical courage” . Don Roberto, for Monsignor Cantoni, was not only a “martyr of charity”, but also a “martyr of mercy”, with a soft and reserved style, to become “weak with the weak, poor with the poor”, inserted in a long line of saints of good who “fill the path of our life with light.”
Bishop Cantoni’s Homily – Michele Luppi
Seven Lombard bishops and the designated Apostolic Vicar of Alexandria in Egypt (Father Claudio Lurati, a native of Como) were present to concelebrate the Mass. “What good is the death of Don Roberto?” Bishop Cantoni wondered. It is the incarnation of the Gospel: “What is the use of loving those who love you?” Cardinal Krajewski asked the same question. He is dead, he observed, then he is alive. Love never dies, because there is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for friends.
The cardinal brought, in the name of the Pope, rosaries for all: for the poor, for the young “of Don Roberto”, for the relatives, a special pearl for the parents, and one also “for that bastard who killed him and who is in jail. I ask the authorities to bring it to him “. And he looked towards the director of the Como prison. Thinking of the importance of continuing the work of Don Malgesini, the cardinal assured that if “no priests and laity arrive, I will arrive.”
At the end of the mass, an emotional hug to Don Roberto’s sister and brothers, and then a visit, in prayer, to the place where Don Roberto was assassinated and to the church of San Rocco, where Don Roberto began every morning at 4. the day praying, before going to his poor.
Accepting the wish of the family, the funeral was held on Friday in the parish church of Sant’Ambrogio in Regoledo di Cosio (Sondrio). The Bishop of Como presidedOscar Cantoni had concelebrated, due to understandable space needs, a very small number of priests representing the diocesan presbytery.
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