Today, Wednesday 19 March, the second edition of the Soul Festival of Spirituality (19-23 March) will be inaugurated, promoted by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and the Archdiocese of Milan, which will be held from 19 to 23 March 2025 in Milan in various places in the city, significant and full of suggestion, thanks to the participation of important cultural institutions, artistic, educational, social, secular and religious. This year's theme is "Trust, the plot of us".
The festival will be opened by the beloved Israeli writer David Grossman at 6 pm at the Catholic University (Largo Gemelli 1). In dialogue with Alessandro Zaccuri, Director of Communications at the Catholic University, at the inaugural meeting of Soul, one of the major protagonists of contemporary culture once again questions the need for trust in times of conflict and mistrust. Consecutive translation by Paolo Maria Noseda.
At the Holocaust Memorial (Piazza E.J. Safra 1) two events will be held on Sunday 23 March.
From 11.00 to 12.00 the Chief Rabbi of Milan Rav Alfonso Arbib reads the famous biblical episode of the miracle of manna through the lens of three apparently contradictory states of mind. In the 40 years of pilgrimage in the desert, the fidelity of the people of Israel is put to the test through a continuous confrontation with the provisional nature of the journey. Rabbinic tradition will interpret this narrative as the paradigm of Jewish life and history. Introduced by Milena Santerini, book HERE
Between 17.00 and 18.00, then there will be the meeting "I have faith, despite everything", a dialogue between Rabbi Roberto Della Rocca and the journalist Aldo Cazzullo, accompanied by readings of the Hebrew Bible and music by Manuel Buda. The meeting will explore the meaning of trust in Jewish tradition, understood not as absolute certainty, but as a commitment to believe in the good even when everything seems to be working against us. Moderated by Valeria Cantoni Mamiani. Book HERE.
Also on Sunday, March 23, at 11 a.m., the meeting "Children of Abraham, therefore brothers" will be held at the Triennale (viale Emilio Alemagna 6) in whichthe apostolic vicar for southern Arabia Paolo Martinelli, the professor of Islamic theology Adnane Mokrani and the rabbi David Sciunnach will discuss. The meeting will take its cue from the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, a complex that houses a church, a mosque and a synagogue. In the era of the political declination of religions (which has enlisted them in its wars), this place wants to show not only the possibility of dialogue between the great religious traditions, but also the contribution they can make to the construction of trust and relations between peoples. An important lesson also for Milan.
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