Luca Trapani in 2018 adopted Alba, a girl with Down syndrome rejected by thirty families and who has become fully daughter even if he is single and homosexual. Their life together is often shared by Luca on social media and was told with Luca Mercadante in Born for you (A book that then became a film, broadcast tonight du Canale 5). Luca’s choice was born from the faith and grew up in the parish. To be exact in that of the Holy Trinity of Naples, his city, where he was born in 1977. After the classical high school he chooses the seminariesor. «During a trip to Lourdes I meet a boy I fall in love with and after two years I give up everything. I change school, I graduate in cultural heritage, “says Luca. That journey, which changed his life, has now become the protagonist of his new book, the first novel, Imperfections (Salani), the story of an apparently impossible love, born during another journey, that of Santiago, and small great miracles that are needed to make it real. «All life is a journey, not at all easy among other things. I really did this path, “Trapani says. «And like Livio, the protagonist of the book, I discovered that iThe real journey is made with the heart, rather than on foot. I did it in the company of my spiritual father, Don Gennaro Matino: I met him in the parish at sixteen, he helped me metabolize the death of my best friend and always listens to me, still today ».
Feel part of the Church
“My parents did not attend the Church when I was little,” clarifies Luca. «I ended up there because Diego’s mother asked us to do it: we were teenagers and he was sick, he had a tumor. His mom advised us to attend the parish more because he would have done us well ». “I no longer stopped,” he continues, “even without Diego, and it was my salvation. Do you know what? I was lucky enough to never feel outside the church, on the contrary. I found people who looked at me like Luca, not for my sexual orientation. I have managed many projects of the Foundation of the Cardinal of Naples for ten years. I recently resigned because they asked me to become councilor for social policies of the Municipality of Naples as a technician “.
Yes, Luca is a true expert: he has dedicated himself for many years as a volunteer and professional level to social activities in Italy and in the world. Among the many things, He founded the free -wheel association, to support the sociality of people with disabilities, the ray cooperative of sunshine, to encourage the occupation of fragile people, And the home of Matteo’s house has created the community, unique in southern Italy dedicated to serious disabled children. Just his experience among children with different skills led him to the adoption of Alba. He had to be only a temporary custody because he had been abandoned but, when no family came forward to adopt it, Luca said his “yes”. The adoption by unmarried people is in fact provided for by law in some particular cases. «Paternity is a great responsibility but disability has never frightened me. For me Alba is not a Serie B choice. There is a psalm, that is, “the Lord is my shepherd”, who illuminates my days “, confides Luca. “And then there is a figure who marked my existence. It is Mother Teresa of Calcutta, I met her when I was in India and gave me a medal that I always carry with me ».
A scene from the film “Born for you”
Feel supported by God
Why is imperfections the title of his novel? «There is a great maged to see imperfections. We are submerged by messages that lead us to seek perfection and in the end we have all broke out and dissatisfied, violent. Other than perfect. Nobody looks at us and says: look that you are imperfect, you will not be idols, nobody is. More than perfection, it is necessary to teach to reach happiness ». Despite disability, disease, imperfection, you can be happy. “I feel like saying that in the end God loves us as we are because we were made in his image and likeness”. Prayer? «I always pray even when I have to do stupid things. I really like what we turn to the guardian angel. What matters for me is anyway », says Luca convinced,” stop and listen to: that’s where God meets. ANche my little girl, who is almost five years old, knows Jesus. My house is full of statues of sacred art. We have a beautiful baby girl who was from my grandmother and now she is in my bedroom. Every evening Alba greets him with a nice goodnight kiss, and goes to sleep ».
