The booklet "Lucky parents. Live the homosexuality of children as believers"It was built and printed by the Association “Jonathan's tent"Founded, by the will of the deceased Don David Esposito with the volunteers of the Gionata project, to do welcome, training and information With LGBT Christians, their family members and pastoral operators in Christian communities.
The 36 color pages of “Lucky parents"they collect"The testimonies of Christian parents grappling with the discovery of the homosexuality of their children".
He writes in the preface Don Gian Luca Carrega, director of the office for the pastoral care of the culture of the diocese of Turin who, on a mandate received by his archbishop, also deals with pastoral activities for LGBT people and their family members, which "Theirs are the crossed testimonies of those who do not limit themselves to transmitting a message, but embodies it with its own life. And life flows copiously in the words of these parents who have not given up their role in complex moments of their family journey ". Their words are “A pressing request for listening to civil society and the Church, because they realize their existence and do not deal with them as strangeri ”. But also a request for dialogue and"An denunciation of the ecclesial isolation that have lived at the moment of the test, which makes us deeply interrogate about the meaning of our being a church".
A text designed specifically to help parents and Christian communities reflect on this issue, also through some cards of reflection and bibliographic deepening present at the end of the volume.
The booklet "Lucky parents"It is available for free both as an ebook and in a printed edition. A copy can be requested free of charge, until the available copies are exhausted, taking charge of the post of postal shipping, to the Association "La Tenda di Gionata" writing to tendedigionata@gmail.com
If you want to add your testimony or your reflection, born from the reading of the book, on the page "OtherStories” just send it to tendedigionata@gmail.com
To download the ebook for free click on:
Lucky parents. Live the homosexuality of children as believers (Second edition 2019, enriched and expanded)
Lucky parents (First edition 2018)
"A text where mothers and dads speak of life, inclusion, faith, hope and" a love that cares and free ... ".
(AVVENIRE, 17 May 2019)
Index of "lucky parents" (Second edition 2019)
Preface
A "blessing" that changed our life
When my son said to us: "I love a boy"
The gift of coming out
A network of affections
A day of a thousand colors
A look of benevolence
A homosexual son? Let's talk
So as not to lose your compass
Books that can be ordered in the bookstore
Free ebooks
Some movies that may be worth seeing
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