(ANSA) – LAMEZIA TERME, 23 APR – Monsignor Domenico Schillaci leaves the Diocese of Lamezia Terme and takes over the leadership of that of Nicosia, in the province of Enna. This was announced by the Vatican, communicating the decision of Pope Francis to accept the resignation of Monsignor Salvatore Muratore to preside over the Diocese of Nicosia due to the age limit.
Schillaci, 64, originally from Adrano (Catania), greeted the clergy, collaborators and faithful in the Cathedral. “I didn’t ask. I was asked”, said Monsignor Schillaci during the ceremony in relation to his transfer “And just like three years ago, when I arrived here in Lamezia – he added – I welcomed this call, which in faith comes from the Lord. It is the Lord Jesus who invites me to follow him. The Church of Pope Francis has this fundamental mission. Being disciples of the Lord comes from being grasped by Christ. In Lamezia I tried to do as I have I knew how and how I could and to put myself at the service of the Lord, trying to listen to all of you. We listen. It is the time to listen. In this moment, the first thing I want to say is to apologize to you for everything that is not I have known and I have not been able to give you.
I apologize if I have caused offense and I have done harm “.
The prelate also expressed “gratitude to all the Lametines and all the Lametines. I had the good fortune to know and appreciate the heart of a living city and so many people endowed with great human, spiritual and evangelical potential and riches. God entrusts one to us. to others and it is important that in our hearts we make prejudices fall and make the human of man come out “.
Monsignor Schillaci, awaiting his settlement in Nicosia, will remain in Lamezia Terme as diocesan administrator. And in the meantime he has appointed the vicar general of the diocese, Monsignor Giuseppe Angotti, delegate “ad omnia”. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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