Saturday 7/8/2021 at 17:30
Books
"Aperitif with the author" in Asiago, cultural meetings organized by the Giunti al Punto Library
Saturday, August 7, 2021 will be held a new meeting of the literary review"Aperitif with the author",organized by the library Giunti al Punto di Asiago.
The public will be presented with the book"Dei vizi e delle virtù", Pope Francis in dialogue with Marco Pozza.
The meeting will be held as always in Piazza Carli at the piazzale del Duomo,in the center of Asiago,at 5.30pm.
INFO AND RESERVATIONS
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED to be made at the Tourist Information desk of the Municipality of Asiago
The reservation allows access to the reserved area at the piazzale del Duomo,in Asiago and, only in case of bad weather,at the first 170 bookings, the entrance to the Palazzo del Turismo Millepini.
It is recommended to maintain an interpersonal distance of at least one meter.
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BOOK "DEI VIZI E DELLE VIRTU'" - Rizzoli
In Padua, in the Scrovegni Chapel,one of the greatest masterpieces of Western art, Giotto tells the path of human salvation through the stories of Jesus and Mary on the walls and the Last Judgment on the counter-façade. In the lower register, in black and white as if they were panels in bas-relief, Giotto paints the four cardinal virtues and the three theological to the right of Christ the judge, and to the left seven vices that represent the vices of the virtues. Precisely to these pairs of opposites – injustice-justice, inconstancy-fortitude, anger-temperance, foolishness-prudence, infidelity-faith, jealousy-charity, despair-hope – the new conversation between Pope Francis and Don Marco Pozza is dedicated.
Virtues are the paths that lead to salvation, vices those that end in perdition:"Virtues make you strong, they push you forward, they help you to fight, to understand others, to be just, even-handed. Vices, on the other hand, bring you down. Virtue is like vitamin: it makes you grow, move on. Vice is essentially parasitic." Reflecting on these issues serves to "understand well in which direction we must go, why both vices and virtues enter into our way of acting, of thinking, of feeling".
For this reason, each chapter is enriched by a text by Pope Francis that deepens a theme of dialogue and a life story that Fr. Marco Pozza has derived from his experience as chaplain of the prison of Padua. Because in daily life vices and virtues always proceed intertwined, and this book is a path that allows us to rethink together the difficult and necessary task of discernment between good and evil.
Authors
JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO was born in Buenos Aires on December 17, 1936, the son of a Piedmontese railway worker. At the age of 21 he entered the Society of Jesusas a novice. Graduated in Philosophy, ordained a priest in 1969, bishop of Auca in 1992, archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998, created cardinal in 2001, he was elected Pope on March 13, 2013 with the name of Francis.
MARCO POZZA (1979), doctor of theology, chaplain of the prison of Padua,comments on the Gospel for Rai1 and on channel Nove of Discovery Italia he conceived and leads Vices and Virtues,a program that takes its cue from this conversation. For Rizzoli he is the author with Pope Francis of Our Father (2017), Ave Maria (2018) and Io credo, noi credo (2020), translated all over the world. He wrote the text of the Via Crucis celebrated in empty St. Peter's Square on Good Friday 2020, which later became The Seagulls and the Swallow (Rizzoli 2020).
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