The retreat of Florence, a house of affections for young Christians queer

Testimony of Lorenzo Russo of Rome on "Live a meeting "National retreat of young Christians Queer (4-6 April 2025-Florence)

Although they say the opposite, Christianity Queer exists and we are tangible proof of it.

Overlooking the green Florentine hills, from 4 to 6 April 2025, the monastery of the Benedictine nuns of Santa Marta in Florence was House for Christian people queer.

A parenthesis to find ourselves, ourselves and others*, and confirm as much as we sometimes seem to forget: we are not only*.

We embodied the proximity described in the parable of the good Samaritan by making us close to us, which we act for a change, which we abandon the stability of the comfortable lands to experience the queer instability of complexity.

Because sinking into the folds of the scriptures, revealing what we have known about God to rediscover a new sense of divinity is not easy, but it is possible. We are testimony to us.

Our existences are the coherent incarnation of God's unafferrability, which is never rigidity but always euphoric agitation.

Then, come on, we sing the songs of the masses of our difficult childhood, we fill them with new hopes that we give ourselves with the deception.

We live in the churches in which before we hid, celebrating now with the new awareness of being Just* between Giust*.

As far as the access stone can be tiring, we open the doors of our sepulchres because we have talents to invest, without fear.