Thursday, March 31, 2011

The boys meet the Pope Pro League

ROME, March 30 - The sun flooded Piazza San Pietro. Many small soccer goals. One hundred and twenty children come from all over Italy: balloons and values, goals and feelings. "I hope that your game is always the bearer of values of friendship, respect and solidarity." When Benedict XVI spoke these words the audience has already doubled by the end time plenty.

It's hot and the Pope is tired from a day in which, bouncing between seven languages, has combined the "lesson" at St. Alphonsus and its moral teaching with regards to the various groups came from all corners of the globe and with attention for a theme, football, which is not always peeps at these meetings.

The kids with the blue shirt mobilized by Mario Lega Pro Macalli sometimes get distracted, or mix their cries to those of Polish pilgrims when they are called in that kind of appeal indicates that the groups present the Pope in the square . There are the guys who came from France and sing a beautiful choir and band of young musicians John Lennon that an exception to the rule making to their repertoire singing "Ode to Joy" by Beethoven.

And it is a joyous day, day of those who "make proud" a president like Mario Macalli blood, a man of strong tones, but often direct and sincere. Calcium seen from this square, filtered between columns incredibly aligned by Bernini, in this place where the nature of things you must feel at the center of civilization (the same civilization that mistreat us almost daily with our behavior), has a another flavor, another value of another thickness.

Another message is the one printed on T-shirts: "Playing with joy." DREAM AND REALITY '- parade in front of the Pontiff women and men with their devotion and with the signs of that devotion: a rosary, a chain. The Pope blesses. Four couples who have only a few days ago delivered their promise to wedding registries, live this day as the continuation of what we trust is the most beautiful of their lives.

The boys of the Football League's Pro-schools are both aware of and indifferent. Aware that we have in front of a figure in full of ideals, indifferent because their world is, fortunately, still just as simple as a round ball, a ball of foam, yellow and blue checkered rolling and sometimes rears dangerously touching the heads of sloth past, people waiting for the event.

When the Pope-mobile white moves surrounded by security men, rising up, in front of St. Peter, wake up almost screaming from stage. Stiff gait four Swiss Guards in their colorful costumes as Benedict XVI takes place at the center of this kind of gazebo that shelters from the sun and rain.

The square is full. But then, before him, sees the doors of those ten pitches improvised feel the presence of these strange visitors. Diligently, take their places in chairs lined up at the right hand of the Pontiff. The waiting anxiously. They're bored when readings are translated into other languages mark the universality of the Church's message, the fact remains that at this point some of them probably escaped sudden childish games at the sight of the Pope, but that the Pope would be appreciated, however, because the game children is the fear for all that the approval is the great escape.

In the square is off, there is Don Bosco and St. Francis de Sales. T-SHIRT - "Benedict XVI has given us suggestions difficult to forget," says Macalli. E 'radiant Ghirelli Francis, the director general. The idea came to him. Bring in the main square full of spirituality in our country, indeed the world, a world football, the Pro League, sometimes forgotten but very close to people.

Because this is not the butt of big business, so much so that from a economic point of view is always in pain, this is still the butt of the bell towers, which football is played under the house, which is enhanced through the "games" "heroes" as possible. And when the Pope starts to sing the Lord's Prayer in Latin, a kind of refresher for those who, having aged a bit 'advanced still remember when the Mass was celebrated in the extraordinary dead language capable, however, to relive all the time (Pater noster, eg here in coelis ...), the management of the company eighty-five Pro League have probably agreed with the president of the League: "Suggestions are difficult to forget." They thanked the Pope with the blue shirt of children.

Custom. Because the number (XVI) following the name (Benedict) was composed with the symbols of society eighty-five Pro League

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