He grew up on bread and meetings: in 1980 he was only six years old when he participated in the first edition, in the company of Mamma Anna, who worked in the volunteer office, and Dad Giorgio, who dealt with the installations. In the years of adolescence and in those of the university he has returned many times as a volunteer, now the meeting for friendship between peoples is his work.
Emmanuele Forlani, born in 1974, Rimini DOC, since 2019 has been director of the event that the 46th edition will live from 22 to 27 August. «My first meeting with communion and liberation? In the family. My parents were both involved in the community of Rimini, then the experience of the movement became something decisive during the years of the University in Bologna thanks to the very close friendship – I would say branch – with Enzo Piccinini, the head of our community, who died on May 26, 1999 in a road accident and for which the cause of beatification is underway. After that day a step of further maturity began: I wanted to remain attached to the same source of life to which Enzo was attacked, I wanted the beauty encountered to be forever, and my personal adhesion went hand in hand with the community experience, up to its civil dimensions “.
In the University he held the position of Director of Directors and President of the Student Council, after graduating in Economics he operated for a long time between Milan and Rome in areas which, albeit in different ways, originate in the experience of CL: the Study Office of the Compagnia delle Works, the Foundation for subsidiarity, the parliamentary intergroup for subsidiarity, Portofranco (a network of study help centers present in 63 cities), the Piccinini Foundation and others Still.
Read the complete interview with Emmanuele Forlani on the number of believing in distribution in newsstands and religious bookstores from Thursday 14 August and in the parishes from Saturday 16 August. Or buy a digital copy www.edicolasanpaolo.it
(Photo above: Flickr/Meeting Rimini)
