Feast in Sora (Italy)

Sister Elvira has visited Sora, her home town and the nice and small  Sora (35000 inhabitants, near Frosinone) has welcomed her with the highest civil and religious homage, giving her the honorary citizenship. All the people were happy and proud of her and of what she has created: “A sorana child, servant for love, testimony of hope  all over the world” was written on many posters hung  here and there  around the town .
On Saturday September 23 she was received in the Town Hall by the deputy mayor and by the town representatives .They were very happy and proud to meet her and promised her their moral support to her foundation.
His Right Reverend  Bishop of Sora diocese, Mons.Luca Brandolin, was there too, reminding that  love is the only way to salvation.
In the late afternoon, during a very moving Mass at the parish of St. Pio from Pietralcina, sister Elvira was given some gifts, among which her  certificate of Baptism. In the evening,in the town square, the Community youth performed the recital” Light of the World” before thousands of people and  youth looking for hope and true life, like everywhere. After the Recital  a group of  young people from Sora sang a moving  hymn to celebrate the religious vocation of sister Elvira.
On Sunday 24 sister Elvira took part in the solemn Mass in the Sanctuary of Holy Mary in “Valleradice”, testifying the grace of her life and her experience. She was given other typical gifts and in the end  somebody read the story of her life in the area dialect. So Sister Elvira could remember and testify her poor and suffering childhood in Sora.
Sister Elvira was very happy  and  the  town people too because they were able to meet such a  celebrated child at last.
The feast in Sora ended two weeks’ testimony that the Cenacolo Community took around Italy with the  Recital “Light of the world”. It was performed in Caserta, Pompei, before the Lady of Rosary Sanctuary, at the presence of the local Bishop and then in Sora.
The 53 fraternities of Cenacolo Community present in Russia, Argentina, Croatia, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Europe, USA testify the abundance of the charisma that the humble Elvira has accepted from God’s hands and in which she has believed  with great courage. The joy of Christ’s resurrection, His burning presence in the Eucharist, the uninterrupted  intercession of God’s Mother who is so much loved by the Community are the sources  of the life walk that involves young addicts, families, priests and nuns that work like brothers and sisters for the same aim: giving hope to those who lost it, announcing the beauty and the power of Christ our Lord, the only true remedy to human weakness.

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