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"Into your hands, Lord, I give my soul and my famiglia.Ti you recommend thank you for everything you have given me in this life and forgive all my fault. "Even if my imagination, I think that is the prayer that was very different Raffaele Schiavo, known to all as Ninnella, he mentally recited when she realized that it was time for her to leave with his life terrena.Coerente lifestyle Ninnella, on tiptoe, left us in the late afternoon of 16 September last, the day the Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of the saints and martyrs Cornelius Cipriano.Questo reference calendar is not surprising, because Ninnella who attended daily Mass to know the order the liturgical year and calendar, and then we like to note that the Lord has called him one day in September is a month of liturgically richer and more beautiful by the number of holidays and memories that are celebrated throughout of the thirty giorni.E 'This was one of the first thoughts I did when I was sent the news. Then I went with the memory of my teenage years, the years when the Cathedral of Ravello, devastated by the superintendents in little or no call to prayer and the meeting with the revised Signore.Ho Ninnella who stubbornly continued to attend Mass feasts and working to recite novenas and rosaries, to be together with other parishioners (Fifteen) the hard core of the Christian community of Santa Maria Assunta, which was not to be deterred by the weather, difficulty and inconvenience that the shameful delays in restoration work provocavano.In the playfully call "faithful" Don Peppino because their daily experimenting strong bond with the Church. When in 1986 the community of Santa Maria Assunta and Ravello lived all the great moments of the celebration of the eighth centenary of the establishment of a bishopric and Ravello in 1989 the party for the 50th anniversary of priesthood of Don Peppino senior, offered the Ninnella its contribution in terms of patience, friendliness and willingness to accept that his house became a control room where you plan, the projects were discussed in that group of people who had found in the chant a chance to get together and providing a community service. But beyond the individual dates, the witness of faith Ninnella has been continuous and constant over the years and has become stronger in recent mesi.Nonostante not the good health, participated with great sacrifice to the novena in preparation for Feast of St. Pantaleone.Seduta as always in the front rows, with a rosary in his hands close, he played for the last time, after so many years, the wreath in honor of the Holy Patrono.Si is July 16 when he moved visa to attend Mass in honor of Madonna del Carmine and the newly formed Brotherhood regretted not being able to take part in the celebrations of the Assumption. For people like me who was used to seeing this lady "house church" present at the celebrations, the legitimate sadness you feel when a loved one disappears, it is also knowledge that has disappeared with Ninnella a historical figure of the Cathedral of Ravello.Parlavo early exit from a tip-piedi.Sì! task with the same attitude with which emerged at the end of the Mass, September 16 Ninnella emerged from the stage of life, quietly, probably well aware that he carried out his mission as wife and mother Christian, ready to go, again tiptoe, in that kingdom of light to meet him which has a daily listening to the Word and the Body and Blood which has cibata.Ci miss you, Ninnella! We will miss your comments, your compliments and even your good-natured accusations that they were sincere testimony of this strong love for Christ and his Church. But will your testimony and, as far as I'm concerned, even the sweetness and delicacy of that kiss on the hand that you wanted to thank the visit that I made early settembre.Un gesture that today appears to me as the ultimate test of a feeling of affection and esteem that I hope not tradire.Grazie of heart and continue to pray that we learn to Ravello know the Lord, to love Him and thank Him anytime, anywhere and meet every Sunday, Easter week, as you did that now live the eternal Easter.
Roberto Palumbo