Automatic translation from Italian, under review.
NEWS FROM THE DIOCESE OF PALERMO
1. Sr. Nunziella Scopelliti re-elected Superior General of the Sisters of Beautiful Love
Great joy and emotion for the “Sisters of Beautiful Love,” gathered in General Chapter in Palermo, who unanimously confirmed as Superior General Sr. Nunziella Scopelliti, Foundress of the religious Institute canonically erected in Palermo on 8 December 1994 by Cardinal Salvatore Pappalardo, who approved its Constitutions.
Here is a brief summary of the spirit of Beautiful Love given by Sr. Nunziella herself. “The specific spirituality of the Institute rests on three fundamental points:
- Trinitarian communion, with respect for the cultural, national and charismatic distinctions of each person and of each ecclesial and social group, in order to help make more alive the unity that Jesus gave us by dying on the cross for us;
- love for Mary, not in a devotionalistic key, but as participation in her life, living in communion with her in order to be, in the Church and in society, a “Marian” presence aimed at giving life to and humanizing environments, bringing to them the touch of maternal tenderness and fostering interpersonal relationships;
- a liberating vision of human corporeality in the light of the incarnate Word and his Mother, which fosters education in a healthy and correct way of living one’s own corporeality as a gift, both in family relationships and in the vast field of interpersonal relations, lived in the light of the Gospel.
The spirit of Beautiful Love wants to be above all that life according to the Spirit, that spirituality of ecclesial life, which all of us must and can live, in order to make the Church more beautiful, guided in this on the way of Beauty by Mary, who can restore the sense of the beautiful to a world that has at times lost its taste for it.