Automatic translation from Italian, under review.
On July 13 the Conference Mater amabilis will be celebrated in Palermo, the “celebration for the whole family” organized by the Sisters of Beautiful Love.
With the passing of the years (this is the eleventh edition) the Mater amabilis Conference has become an important annual event for those who wish to deepen the timeless value of motherhood and fatherhood in the light of the Trinitarian mystery, starting both from particularly significant testimonies and from the simple, everyday lives of many fathers and mothers who, each day, live their vocation to love as an authentic path of holiness. The name Mater amabilis expresses the Marian perspective from which the various themes are presented.
This year, too, awards will be presented. The recipients of the 2025 award are:
- Professor Marianna Gensabella, formerly Full Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Messina, formerly a member of the National Bioethics Committee, President of the Sicily Section of the Italian Institute of Bioethics and member of the Governing Board of the School of Bioethics at the Theological Institute S. Tommaso, Messina, who through her university work and commitment has tirelessly worked for the affirmation of human dignity from conception to its natural fulfillment, emphasizing in her research the dimension of the bioethics of care and of disability.
- the building contractor Giuseppe Di Gesù, a surveyor, who in his work and in his relationships with colleagues and workers seeks to establish authentic relationships marked by fatherhood, fostering a climate of fraternity among all;
- the spouses Loredana Caruso and Salvatore Maniaci, mother and father of Claudio, quadriplegic and affected since the age of 2 by a serious, irreversible illness, who day after day make God’s love, Father-Mother, tangible.
Participants will come from all over Italy, as well as from Palermo and Sicily, some even from Germany (among those present also representatives from Ukraine and Lebanon), and will be of all ages… A celebration for the whole family!
