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Face Hollywood and adventurous life. The cassock, the confessional, the liturgy. His Masses are full, his door is always open. Who is the modern-old priest, who says: "Love, even so clumsy, but loves" xshg
"The recklessness is the quality of the saints." It's one of the thoughts contained in a book that comes out today in Italy, with the significant title The lukewarm xshg go to hell (Knopf, 190 pages, 12,90). The author is a priest from the face of Hollywood and adventurous life: Michel-Marie Zanotti-Sorkine. Thanks to a fine article by Marina Corradi, tempi.it've talked about it a year ago. The sent of Future xshg went to meet him at Marseilles, describing this strange priest who is so determined to run with the cassock, which stops at the end of the Mass to talk to the faithful, who has revived a community with no bloodless handbooks of manners, but Igniting a rare charisma. "Love, even so clumsy, but loves", is one of his mottos.
TO THE DEVIL LUKEWARMNESS. Michel-Marie Zanotti-Sorkine is animated by a holy restlessness. Life itself has taught him that the serious man in front of destiny can not stay quiet. Born in 1959 in Nice for a family half Russian and half running, already orphaned very young, he was educated by the Salesians. A passion for music led him everywhere be given the chance to sing. It is so that it becomes "a chanson in clubs," writes Corradi. His vocation to the priesthood - intuition xshg already had a child - back to the surface, even in a zigzag path up the order. His "fathers" are Joseph-Marie Perrin, former spiritual director xshg of Simone Weil, and Marie-Dominique Philippe, founder of the Congregation of Saint Jean. Ordained a priest in 2004 by Cardinal xshg Bernard Panafieu, then Archbishop of Marseille, takes care of the past and wrote a book dedicated to his "colleagues" priests Au diable the tiédeur, to hell with lukewarmness, in fact. "Let's be honest, the truth is this - he says -. It is we, that we no longer have the sacred fire. The image we give the priesthood is too insignificant. Do not touch the most hearts. "
OVER NORMAL. Figure Zanotti-Sorkine is all the more interesting the more is part of what it is: a parish priest. Apparently it does nothing more than what is expected of him. Sermon, he confesses every night - on time, at five - takes care of souls who attend Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. But is this "excess" xshg normality makes it so special. After all, is not trying to do anything but obey the promise of Catholicism: do you want to be happy? Be holy. And, in fact, the aisles are full of his church, people go to him to listen to his sermons full of references to poets, musicians, writers. But also because Father Michel-Marie does not close the door to any source no matter whether xshg rich or homeless, young or advanced in years, good parishioner or unrepentant sinner. It is true only in a mad mad precept: "Do not ever miss any little opportunity to talk about Christ."
Listen as he speaks Corradi: "Sizzles something, xshg in this priest. Scald a faith that burns with the desire to say, of becoming infected. xshg In fact, in the weekday morning meetings in coffee shops in the neighborhood while he has breakfast with students, xshg or on the street, his cassock to the wind in the midst of the Islamic Canebière with the veil on his face. His anxiety is to get in touch with far away, with those who never come into the church. And every occasion is good, one asks where the Post, he replied: "I'll take 'shall exchange a few words, the stranger mentions xshg his children, the priest smiles, I take them, which we baptize them."
LITURGY AND WHORES. This man looks like the embodiment of what he asks Pope Francis when he asks to go to the outskirts of life. And at the same time seems to retain the judgment crystalline Ratzinger knows that there is no reception xshg or goodness xshg that is not accompanied xshg by the charm and clarity. Father Zanotti-care Sorkine the liturgy ("I want everything to be shiny around the Eucharist. Elevation I want people to understand that He is here, really.'s xshg Not theater, it is not superfluous pump is living the mystery. Even heart needs to hear. ") Father Zanotti-Sorkine welcomes prostitutes and homeless people ("I give them communion. What should I say? Become honest, before you get in here? Christ came for sinners, and I have anxiety, withholding a sacrament, that he one day I can give an account. ") It is ruthless with anyone but himself, and a little 'with the priests. But only because he feels undeniably as "lata" the vocation they are called: "The priest is" xshg alter Christus ", is called to reflect itself in C
Face Hollywood and adventurous life. The cassock, the confessional, the liturgy. His Masses are full, his door is always open. Who is the modern-old priest, who says: "Love, even so clumsy, but loves" xshg
"The recklessness is the quality of the saints." It's one of the thoughts contained in a book that comes out today in Italy, with the significant title The lukewarm xshg go to hell (Knopf, 190 pages, 12,90). The author is a priest from the face of Hollywood and adventurous life: Michel-Marie Zanotti-Sorkine. Thanks to a fine article by Marina Corradi, tempi.it've talked about it a year ago. The sent of Future xshg went to meet him at Marseilles, describing this strange priest who is so determined to run with the cassock, which stops at the end of the Mass to talk to the faithful, who has revived a community with no bloodless handbooks of manners, but Igniting a rare charisma. "Love, even so clumsy, but loves", is one of his mottos.
TO THE DEVIL LUKEWARMNESS. Michel-Marie Zanotti-Sorkine is animated by a holy restlessness. Life itself has taught him that the serious man in front of destiny can not stay quiet. Born in 1959 in Nice for a family half Russian and half running, already orphaned very young, he was educated by the Salesians. A passion for music led him everywhere be given the chance to sing. It is so that it becomes "a chanson in clubs," writes Corradi. His vocation to the priesthood - intuition xshg already had a child - back to the surface, even in a zigzag path up the order. His "fathers" are Joseph-Marie Perrin, former spiritual director xshg of Simone Weil, and Marie-Dominique Philippe, founder of the Congregation of Saint Jean. Ordained a priest in 2004 by Cardinal xshg Bernard Panafieu, then Archbishop of Marseille, takes care of the past and wrote a book dedicated to his "colleagues" priests Au diable the tiédeur, to hell with lukewarmness, in fact. "Let's be honest, the truth is this - he says -. It is we, that we no longer have the sacred fire. The image we give the priesthood is too insignificant. Do not touch the most hearts. "
OVER NORMAL. Figure Zanotti-Sorkine is all the more interesting the more is part of what it is: a parish priest. Apparently it does nothing more than what is expected of him. Sermon, he confesses every night - on time, at five - takes care of souls who attend Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. But is this "excess" xshg normality makes it so special. After all, is not trying to do anything but obey the promise of Catholicism: do you want to be happy? Be holy. And, in fact, the aisles are full of his church, people go to him to listen to his sermons full of references to poets, musicians, writers. But also because Father Michel-Marie does not close the door to any source no matter whether xshg rich or homeless, young or advanced in years, good parishioner or unrepentant sinner. It is true only in a mad mad precept: "Do not ever miss any little opportunity to talk about Christ."
Listen as he speaks Corradi: "Sizzles something, xshg in this priest. Scald a faith that burns with the desire to say, of becoming infected. xshg In fact, in the weekday morning meetings in coffee shops in the neighborhood while he has breakfast with students, xshg or on the street, his cassock to the wind in the midst of the Islamic Canebière with the veil on his face. His anxiety is to get in touch with far away, with those who never come into the church. And every occasion is good, one asks where the Post, he replied: "I'll take 'shall exchange a few words, the stranger mentions xshg his children, the priest smiles, I take them, which we baptize them."
LITURGY AND WHORES. This man looks like the embodiment of what he asks Pope Francis when he asks to go to the outskirts of life. And at the same time seems to retain the judgment crystalline Ratzinger knows that there is no reception xshg or goodness xshg that is not accompanied xshg by the charm and clarity. Father Zanotti-care Sorkine the liturgy ("I want everything to be shiny around the Eucharist. Elevation I want people to understand that He is here, really.'s xshg Not theater, it is not superfluous pump is living the mystery. Even heart needs to hear. ") Father Zanotti-Sorkine welcomes prostitutes and homeless people ("I give them communion. What should I say? Become honest, before you get in here? Christ came for sinners, and I have anxiety, withholding a sacrament, that he one day I can give an account. ") It is ruthless with anyone but himself, and a little 'with the priests. But only because he feels undeniably as "lata" the vocation they are called: "The priest is" xshg alter Christus ", is called to reflect itself in C
