Category: Tent of Gionata Publications

 

Browse or download publications edited by for free La Tenda di Gionata on faith and homosexuality. Easy-to-read texts that, like small “grains of mustard”, we created to increase knowledge of the faith paths of LGBT+ Christians and their parents in our Christian communities. If you want to receive the printed publications of Gionata's tent for free, become a member of the association, all you need is a click, why “A mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds but, when it is sown, it grows and becomes larger than all the plants in the garden” (Mark 4,31-32)

2026 / Cornerstone / Ebook / Tent of Gionata Publications / Chronicles of ordinary homophobia Report / In Vigil

“Chronicles of ordinary homophobia” in Italy

The 48 pages of Chronicles of Ordinary Homophobia bring together years of listening, collecting and remembering. They don't start from theories but from faces, names and concrete episodes. Writes Massimo Battaglio, who in these pages wanted to give a face to the "2,104 victims of homophobia, 1,521 men, of which 38 transgender; and 583 women of which 235 transgender, who I...

I trust you / Cornerstone / Ebook / Tent of Gionata Publications / In Vigil

I trust you. Listening to LGBTQ+ Christian people and their parents

In the 48 pages of the book I trust you. Listening to LGBT+ Christian people and their parents, a question runs through many of the stories collected: «Is it possible to be whole people? Whole in one's identity, in relationships, in faith. Without having to choose which part of yourself to sacrifice on the altar of other people's acceptance." It is a question that returns, in different ways, in the first...

Ebook / Tent of Gionata Publications

“In Jerusalem you will be consoled.” Meditations towards Easter by Luigi Testa

There are books that are read and books that are crossed. "In Jerusalem you will be consoled. Meditations towards Easter" by Luigi Testa is one of these: forty pages that not only ask for attention, but for heart. Published and distributed free of charge by La Tenda di Gionata, with an introduction by Filippo Sorcinelli, the afterword by the moral theologian Martin M. Lintner OSM and the...

2026 / Ebook / Tent of Gionata Publications / In Vigil

How to prepare prayer vigils and services in our churches to overcome homotransbiphobia

Why continue to keep vigil, year after year, against homotransbiphobia? Because our Christian communities also need to learn to name, heal and overcome a violence that has been silenced for too long. The twenty pages of this "Kit to prepare prayer vigils for overcoming homotransbiphobia" are born like a nautical chart. They don't indicate an obligatory route, but...

Cornerstone / Ebook / Tent of Gionata Publications

Cornerstones. how To build lGBT+ catholic Pastorals?

“How to build Catholic pastoral care with LGBT+ people?”. It is from this question that the fourth volume of Pietre d'Angolo was born, the result of the Pietre d'Angolo meeting of the Cornerstone Project (Florence, 5 April 2025). A volume that recounts the concrete attempts of some Italian Catholic dioceses to walk alongside LGBT+ people and their families, listening to that "discarded stone" that becomes stone...

Cornerstone / Ebook / Tent of Gionata Publications

Cornerstones. What paths in churches for LGBT+ Christians?

“What paths do you take in churches for LGBT+ Christians?”. It is the question that opens this second volume dedicated to the Proceedings of the Cornerstones meeting of the Cornerstone Project (Florence, 5 April 2025), which takes us into the paths, often courageous and sometimes tiring, that many LGBT+ Christians are building in our churches. Paths made of openings, resistances, new possibilities and lots of life...