And in the bookstore the "Via Crucis of a gay boy"
«Whenever someone - and maybe I myself tell myself that I am wrong; Whenever someone makes me believe that maybe I should heal; Whenever someone tells me that this is not the case, that you don't love me like this, that you don't want me like this; Whenever someone invents every rule, every rule, every rite, every comma, to keep me away from you - all these times, your death on the cross is blasphemed ».
The passion of Christ remains, for believers and non -believers, the most authentic and authoritative way with which the radical teaching of shared and universal love materializes every day. But the life of men is a tormented journey and then the need arises to let themselves be narrated that passion of love again, felt above all by those who perceive on themselves notes not of love but of hatred, not of salvation but of condemnation.
This is the perspective of Luigi Testa who in his meditations collected in the book "Via Crucis of a gay boy", Published in the series" Theology of the suburbs "of the Castelvecchi publisher, he puts himself in front of the passion of the Lord by leaving anonymity and by stereotyped devotional formulas, bringing in meditation what it means to be homosexual in our time.
A book enriched by the preface by Francesco Savino, by the afterword of Sergio Massironi and the suggestive illustrations of the FerrarioFrères.
“The title strikes me about this book. Direct, disruptive. It unites in itself how much more traditional our ecclesial communities know how to offer with what have long long marginalized and crucified; A devotion that binds Catholics to the passion of Christ and a way of being that has been condemned without appeal to invisibility ". (Francesco Savino, from the introduction)
"The audacity of the meditations of Luigi Testa, their references up to hands, backs, kisses, loves without filters, if not those of a modesty that everything is of dignity, returns to the incarnation the vigor that is proper to it". (Sergio Massironi, poseing)
Luigi Testa He teaches comparative public law at the University of Insubria and Public Law at Bocconi University. He is the author of legal and editorial texts and comments for some national newspapers such as "Tomorrow" and "Il Fatto Quotidiano" and spiritual reflections on Gionata.org. "Via crucis of a gay boy"It is his first spiritual book.
Luigi Testa, Via Crucis of a gay boy, Theology series from the suburbs, publisher Castelvecchi, 2024, pp.96
