On Tuesday 12 October, we met at the Basilica dei SS Apostoli in Rome, to remember Don Luigi Di Liegro 24 years after his passing. Many friends of Don Luigi and volunteers at the Eucharistic celebration, promoted by the Don Luigi Di Liegro Foundation. Also present were Monsignor Benoni Ambarus, auxiliary in charge of the pastoral care of charity, the prefect of Rome, Matteo Piantedosi, and the director of Caritas, Giustino Trincia.
"Don Luigi Di Liegro had a profoundly biblical vision of the city: a place where men live together, a collective body in which we are all called to participate. A living body that asks to be honored by each of its members". Thus Archbishop Gianpiero Palmieri, vicegerent of the Diocese of Rome, remembered the first director of Caritas.
In the homily, commenting on the Gospel passage, Monsignor Palmieri highlighted how "Jesus' sharp irony towards the Pharisees - who worry about ablutions and cleaning the plate to be pure before God - reminds us of the life and work pastoral ministry of Don Luigi who never stopped testifying that only love makes us pure before the Lord".
"We are not the memory of a person who died, we are the awareness of a great gift that God has given to the Church and to the city of Rome: Don Luigi. His memory - added Monsignor Palmieri - is a living memory, these are our dreams shared by Don Luigi Di Liegro to be witnessed, so that they become visions for young people today"
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