Bose, Enzo Bianchi’s reaction to the Vatican statement: amazement, search for a home and hope Cellole

Astonishment. It is the feeling that Enzo Bianchi, the founder of the community of Bose, I tried to read the press release from Holy See, released today. Fifteen unequivocal lines ending with words that astonished the former prior: “The holy Father finally, he expressed his request to accompany the path of conversion and recovery of Community according to the guidelines and methods clearly defined in the singular decree of May 13, 2020, the content of which the Pope reiterates and whose execution he requests ”. Yesterday, the pontiff met with the current prior Luciano Manicardi and the pontifical father delegate Amedeo Cencini, which since last May has practically had a “police station” in the community. A hearing made public on the website of the Vatican. What you did not imagine Enzo Bianchi is today’s press release.

Who is close to him defines him amazed because I thought yesterday’s meeting had another sense. The founder, in recent days, had been joined by an emissary from Dad which would reassure you of the intention of Bergoglio to find a solution that brings peace between him and the prior Manicardi. The old monk (last Wednesday he turned 78 years old), had to move to the fraternity of Cello without being able to carry out the monastic life and without any guarantee regarding loan. Unacceptable conditions for Bianchi who remained in his eremo waiting for a sign of Rome announced in recent days by the envoy of pontiff. Today the press release published in the bulletin of the Vatican press office has arrived. Bianchi learned the news in his hermitage where he has been living alone for months, assisted by a brotherbut without seeing friends and other people who would like meet. The founder could no longer participate in the life of the community, to prayers, to chapter. A life in solitude and silence dedicated only to reading. The founder has not been seen in public meetings for some time and his interventions have been removed from the Bose community site, so much so that Bianchi has started his own blog. “Otherwise”.

The statement of the Holy See now does not change anything because the founder he had already decided to leave his hermitage shortly. For months, Brother Enzo has been looking for a house, but so far he has not found one. right place and practicable in economic terms. In October came the proposal to move to the Cellole fraternity: a hypothesis to which he was willing agree but that was hampered by the conditions that Bianchi defined as “inhumane” proposed by Cencini, the treasurer Guido Dotti and the previous. The founder should have gone to the tuscan fraternity (which would no longer carry the Bose wording) with no guarantees on the loan and with the possibility of being fired at any time. Not only. He and the brothers and sisters who followed him were unable to practice the vitae monastic. An unacceptable proposition for Brother Enzo. Starting tomorrow, the former prior will start searching again. home. In the last days it started move part of his library in a house in Turin, but his thoughts go to the brothers and sisters who would like to follow him. At least eight are ready to accompany you. TO’hemorrhage for the community that has lost 21 people in the last year and no longer registers anyone brother in the novitiate. Anyone who has listened to the founder knows that he is heartbroken and sad to see his community falling apart. There is only one hope: the renegotiation of the Cello Solution. The Holy See’s statement reiterated that Bianchi must leave but maintained the reservation on what the Pope may have in mind for the former prior.