Because i want to Cross The holy door with Christians lGBT+ and their parents
Reflections sent to us by Ada S.
Because I am still undecided whether or not to participate in the jubilee pilgrimage with Christians and Christian LGBTQ+ with the operators and operators, parents and all and all, under the aegis de La Tenda di Gionata and other associations of christians LGBTQ+?
A calendarized pilgrimage with few details. In fact, we rise in the general jubilee calendar as a pilgrimage of the association "La Tenda di Gionata and other associations", without referring any to identification acronyms and other things that concern us.
Some and some of us invite us to fly low and satisfy us for the mere fact of being there and not making a lot of clamor in one direction and/or another.
Well if I decide to be there these are my reasons:
- Unfortunately, being allergic to the rites, because some of them continue to remove Christians and Christians always due to the tendency to give evidence to the form losing sight of the substance, that is, that God is love and has the power to embody each and each of us in weakness and strength, in pain and in joy, perhaps the jubilation pilgrimage is one of the most dense moments of meaning in which we will be united and united by every part of the world in this part of the world in this part of this. with jubilation in the renewal of faith and reconciliation with God and others;
- Because the sign of belonging to a church that has always not welcomed and recognized me as they are is stronger than the various dictates of the magistries who have succeeded each other over time and that have contaminated the Church with origins with human conventions or rigid readings of precepts, used to domesticated to the sense of guilt with punitive and discriminating approaches;
- Because what I go to testify with my friends and my friends of the la Tenda di Gionata, of bridges to build Campania and some other friends of groups I have been part of Rome is the simplicity and the desire to affirm that "I am existing/we are there, we exist" even if we still move on the margins of blurry visibility not for our will;
- because as a Christian, feminist and lesbian I could bring with me to this "pilgrimage" the strong and clear voice of centuries of suffering of a double marginalization, as a woman and lesbian in a world, that of the clericalized church, which has always identified us in the temptatory figure too close and close to the transience in the temptation starting from the symbol par excellence, Eva, and in my possible participation, Mezze measures and show that the strength of the love of the female, mother/earth, made us overcome anger, converting it into love and hope;
- Because I want to share this forgiveness space of forgiveness that I ask for what I missed and who has missed with me, in a mutual way, with those people who have meant so much for my path of faith and my life, which is not static, but in a continuous consolidation process. People who have a name starting with Don Andrea Conocchia, Sister Geneviève, Father Ignacio, Sister Enrica, Innocenzo Pontillo, goddess Santonic and other real people with whom I have had the joy of sharing my path of conversion and faith;
- Because what represented the encounter with Pope Francis, with his words addressed to me, in a way that only a simple and truly loved person of love, as Jesus has testified in his life, is an indelible sign and constant presence of God's love in my life;
- because all this and more have confirmed me the perception and conviction of the presence of the power of love in every expression and encounter of people on my journey of life and faith;
- Because in every gesture I see a humanity capable of making the message of love that is of all, all and all of a privileged categories unique and special;
- Because I was lucky enough to meet special people without the need to do clamor. I can talk about a recent meeting: Helen a trans a bar of a bar, barpop, which I met in my last holiday shared with my partner and in which I recognized a gesture of humanity and love that I think it is difficult to explain to you.
I'll tell you shortly. One of the evenings spent in Canal Street in a bar of Manchester (Great Britain), there were people of various identities, fluids, straight, trans, all and all taken by a collective euphoria that danced and chatted, simply together, although not knowing each other, with the background of pop music launched by the DJ Helen at the console. Between dances and laughter. A Chinese girl, a little pattern, perhaps of the second generation, has not gone unnoticed to my attention. I had the opportunity to exchange some sentences and his English was of a native speaker. It was alone, and I tried tenderness with my partner, in seeing her shy and a little clumsy in the way of dressing.
In Helen, the trans dj, fantastic with her intercede with an elegant and decisive step, in her passages between the beer and drinks desk and the console also did not go unnoticed by the girl and spontaneously stops and starts talking to her. I don't think they knew each other and then with elegance and a gesture of kindness and I add love, invite her to dance and she holds up with her for several laps making her feel the queen of the party, with kindness and sensitivity. Helen made a gesture in simplicity and love, which I was unable to do;
- Yes, I will decide to take part in the Jubilee because I want to bring a simple desire: to be able to free myself from the chains of the conventions that prevent me from loving with freedom and simplicity like Helen, the trans dj, which gave a testimony of love with simplicity and naturalness on one evening at the Barpop of Canal Street in Manchester. Because in every individual there is the ability to love and give testimony and no one can stand up to the holder and holder of true faith and true love.
Those who dare to do it, mystifies the message of the Gospel and is unworthy and unworthy of being part of a church in which all all and all children and daughters can be felt without differences in a common and shared path of faith.
Here I remember the suggestive image that Pope Francis proposed to the great assembly gathered in the Parque Eduardo in Lisbon for the reception ceremony with which the World Youth Day that was celebrated in Portuguese land gone.
"The Church is not the community of the best "but" everyone's mother: a fraternal and welcoming landing for each, where the logic of the arms open and not of the finger aimed, because everyone all - young and old, healthy and sick, righteous and sinners - are important and no use is useless or superfluous".
>Official info on the jubilee pilgrimage of "La Tenda di Gionata and other associations"
