It will be two days of celebration under the banner of recreation, but also of reflection led by the young people of the Viale del Risorgimento Oratory.
Kicking off the activities, on the first day, Saturday, May 27, will be the welcoming ceremony of the Rector Major in Fortezza Vecchia at 4:30 p.m. (UTC+2), which will be followed by the meeting with the citizenship at 5:30 p.m., a moment at which the Mayor of the city, Luca Salvetti, and other councilors of the City of Livorno; the Bishop, Bishop Simone Giusti; the President of the Province, Sandra Scarpellini; and military authorities from the Carabinieri, State Police, and the Naval Academy are also expected to attend. In the evening, the show "125 and One Night" is scheduled in the spaces of the Salesian Cinema Theater.
"Don Ángel," the director and parish priest, Fr. Simone Calvano, told the local newspaper Qui Livorno, "will arrive aboard a boat. We made this choice because Don Bosco, too, when he arrived in Livorno did so by disembarking right at the port, and we wanted to repropose this type of arrival. Afterwards the Rector Major will meet with our children, but also with all the citizenship, to talk about happiness. In fact, in recent months we have set up so-called 'Happiness Yards,' where every young person, and even some families, could comment on the topic of feeling happy. The material was then collected and sent to Don Ángel who analyzed it to propose his own reflection on the subject."
On Sunday, May 28, at 11 a.m. there will be Mass, presided over by the Rector Major in the Salesian parish; at 1 p.m. the community lunch and at 3 p.m. the festival in the oratory, with greetings at 4:30 p.m.
"Lunch," added Father Stefano Casu, Director of the Oratory, "has already been sold out for some time. We will be more than 220 people. Anyway, we invited everyone to eat something, even in the courtyard, but still together. Both the cooking part and the entertainment part with music and show will be taken care of by our young people. Father Ángel is of a very simple confiding nature; an attitude that will help us to live with simplicity even the generally more formal moments."
