Naples, Monsignor Battaglia's homily: "Citizenship income was necessary help"

The archbishop of Napoli, monsignor Battaglia, reserved a passage from the homily of the celebration of the Immaculate Conception for the mothers of Naples who "with their sacrifice seem to multiply the bread, depriving themselves of everything to feed their little ones".

“For them,” Battaglia said, “the citizen’s income was a necessary help and now they seem to lose hope in a dignified life.” Hence the archbishop’s appeal that the Madonna “inspire legislators and government officials to recognize the necessity of this difficult time so that no one is left behind, no one is deprived of daily bread, no mother cries because her children’s table is empty.”

In his homily he also thought of the mothers of Naples who "fear every day that they will not see their son return home because he may be injured or killed by criminal violence" and of those mothers who "try to go against the grain of the criminal family culture, those who try with all their might to break the intergenerational bond of violence and corruption, thus giving their children - he concluded - the possibility of a different life, made of legality and justice".

Then he entrusted to Mary "the women who, because of violence and abuse, have lost all hope for the future, feeling betrayed in their hearts by those who one day had promised to love them and protect them. Be their consolation, the caress that comforts their faces now fearful because of hands that have not offered delicate caresses but painful punches".

During the homily for the celebration of the Immaculate Conception, the high prelate asked Mary to reawaken in these women "their trust and to give them the belief that there is still the possibility of life, of new springs, of new beginnings because the love of your Son makes all things new and makes flowers sprout even among the greyness of the asphalt".

To the figure of the Madonna, Monsignor Battaglia she also entrusted "the women of Naples who struggle more than men to find space in the world of work, women forced to settle for salaries that cry out for vengeance: how many exploited shop assistants, how many women employed in black market work, the scourge of our city, how many young people sent away because their wombs held a new life.

You - he continued - give these daughters of yours the courage not to give up, not to give up, to go forward in the fight to defend their rights". And in the concluding remarks of the homily, Battaglia highlighted how "a man without giving equal dignity and opportunities for fulfillment to a woman will never be able to sing the Magnificat without the fear of being overthrown by the all-male throne that he has built for himself".

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