La celebrazione sinfonico-catechetica dal titolo "La sofferenza degli innocenti", composta da Kiko Arguello
e concepita come un ponte di dialogo con Israele a partire dalla contemplazione della figura di Maria sotto
la Croce, sbarca in America con le seguenti tre date:
1. il 6 maggio alla Symphony Hall di Boston;
2. l'8 maggio, festa liturgica della Madonna del Rosario di Pompei, all' Avery Fisher Hall di New York;
3. il 14 maggio all'Orchestra Hall at Chicago Symphony Center a Chicago.
Preghiamo per questo importante evento ecclesiale.
Di seguito la locandina.
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The International Responsible Team of the Neocatechumenal Way
Thanks the following for the Endorsement and Support
For this Initiative of Love and Reconciliation:
Representatives of Pope Benedict XVI:
- Most Rev. Arch. Carlo Maria Viganò, Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S.
- Most Rev. Arch. Francis Assisi Chullikatt, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the U.N.
- H.E. Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York
- H.E. Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship
- H.E. Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston
- H.E. Cardinal Francis E. George, Archbishop of Chicago
- H.E. Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington
- H.E. Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna
- H.E. Cardinal Antonio María Rouco Varela, Archbishop of Madrid
- H.E. Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington
- H.E. Cardinal James F. Stafford, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
- H.E. Cardinal Paul J. Cordes, Former President of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”
- Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop of Philadelphia
- Most Rev. John J. Myers, Archbishop of Newark
- Most Rev. Thomas G. Wenski, Archbishop of Miami
- Most Rev. Jerome E. Listecki, Archbishop of Milwaukee
- Most Rev. Nicholas A. DiMarzio, Bishop of Brooklyn
- Most Rev. William F. Murphy, Bishop of Rockville Centre
- Most Rev. David L. Ricken, Bishop of Green Bay
- Most Rev. Dale J. Melczek, Bishop of Gary
- Rabbi David Rosen, AJC International Director of Interreligious Relations, Chief Rabbinate of Israel Honorary Advisor on Interfaith Relations, Papal Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great
- Rabbi Arthur Schneier, host of Pope Benedict XVI in 2008, Park East Synagogue, NY, President, Appeal of Conscience Foundation
- Rabbi Eric J. Greenberg, Director of Interfaith Affairs, Anti-Defamation League, NY
- Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, President Emeritus of the Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation, NY
- Rabbi Bob Kaplan, Director of CAUSE-NY, Jewish Community Relations Council, NY
- Rabbi Noam Marans, Director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations, AJC, NY
- Rabbi Richard Marker, Past Chair of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations, NY
- Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Executive Vice President (and former President) of the New York Board of Rabbis
- Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, Temple Israel of Lawrence, NY and Secretary General North American Board of Rabbis
- Rabbi Marc Schneier, President of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, NY
- Rabbi Lawrence S. Zierler, Jewish Center of Teaneck
- Mr. Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
- Mr. David A. Harris, Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee (AJC)
- Ambassador Ronald S. Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress (WJC)
- Mr. Robert Morgenthau, Former New York County District Attorney
- Mr. Haim Gutin, Consul, Tourism Commissioner North and South America, Ministry of Tourism, Government of Israel.
BOSTON — Symphony Hall will stage the first performance of the American Tour of “The Suffering of the Innocents, a Symphonic Homage.” Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston, will chair the event and will lead a prayer for all innocent victims whose lives have been damaged by the sins of others.
- H.E. Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship
- H.E. Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston
- H.E. Cardinal Francis E. George, Archbishop of Chicago
- H.E. Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington
- H.E. Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna
- H.E. Cardinal Antonio María Rouco Varela, Archbishop of Madrid
- H.E. Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington
- H.E. Cardinal James F. Stafford, Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary
- H.E. Cardinal Paul J. Cordes, Former President of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”
- Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop of Philadelphia
- Most Rev. John J. Myers, Archbishop of Newark
- Most Rev. Thomas G. Wenski, Archbishop of Miami
- Most Rev. Jerome E. Listecki, Archbishop of Milwaukee
- Most Rev. Nicholas A. DiMarzio, Bishop of Brooklyn
- Most Rev. William F. Murphy, Bishop of Rockville Centre
- Most Rev. David L. Ricken, Bishop of Green Bay
- Most Rev. Dale J. Melczek, Bishop of Gary
- Rabbi David Rosen, AJC International Director of Interreligious Relations, Chief Rabbinate of Israel Honorary Advisor on Interfaith Relations, Papal Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great
- Rabbi Arthur Schneier, host of Pope Benedict XVI in 2008, Park East Synagogue, NY, President, Appeal of Conscience Foundation
- Rabbi Eric J. Greenberg, Director of Interfaith Affairs, Anti-Defamation League, NY
- Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, President Emeritus of the Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation, NY
- Rabbi Bob Kaplan, Director of CAUSE-NY, Jewish Community Relations Council, NY
- Rabbi Noam Marans, Director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations, AJC, NY
- Rabbi Richard Marker, Past Chair of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations, NY
- Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Executive Vice President (and former President) of the New York Board of Rabbis
- Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, Temple Israel of Lawrence, NY and Secretary General North American Board of Rabbis
- Rabbi Marc Schneier, President of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, NY
- Rabbi Lawrence S. Zierler, Jewish Center of Teaneck
- Mr. Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
- Mr. David A. Harris, Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee (AJC)
- Ambassador Ronald S. Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress (WJC)
- Mr. Robert Morgenthau, Former New York County District Attorney
- Mr. Haim Gutin, Consul, Tourism Commissioner North and South America, Ministry of Tourism, Government of Israel.
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Symphonic Homage and Prayer premiers in Boston
Symphony Hall, May 6 2012 - 2 P.M.
Free Admission - Tickets RequiredBOSTON — Symphony Hall will stage the first performance of the American Tour of “The Suffering of the Innocents, a Symphonic Homage.” Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston, will chair the event and will lead a prayer for all innocent victims whose lives have been damaged by the sins of others.
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Symphonic Homage and Prayer premiers in New York
Avery Fisher Hall, May 8 2012 - 8 P.M.
Free Admission - Tickets Required
NEW YORK — A Catholic homage to the suffering of the Jewish people will be the focus of the New York performance of “The Suffering of the Innocents, a Symphonic Homage and Prayer.” Rabbi David Rosen, AJC International Director of Interreligious Relations and Chief Rabbinate of Israel Honorary Advisor on Interfaith Relations will chair the event and will lead a memorial prayer for the victims of the Shoah.
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Symphonic Homage and Prayer premiers in Chicago
Orchestra Hall at Chicago Symphony Center, May 14 2012 - 7 P.M.
Free Admission - Tickets Required
CHICAGO — Orchestra Hall will stage the Chicago performance of the American Tour of “The Suffering of the Innocents, a Symphonic Homage.” Cardinal Francis E. George, Archbishop of Chicago, will chair the event and will lead a prayer for all innocent victims whose lives have been damaged by the sins of others.
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A message from the composer, Kiko Argüello.
Dear brothers and sisters: How could I presume to compose music? Is it my pride? Or my vanity? Be that as it may, an elderly priest once told me: “Never avoid doing good for fear of vanity, because that comes from the devil.”
To do good...” Is it good to try to compose music? I present to you a small musical composition, which I would like to be a homage to the suffering of the innocents. Can music, perhaps, say something more profound on such a significant theme...? The suffering of the innocents... The philosopher Sartre said: “Woe to the man whom the anger of God crushes against the wall,” and Nietzsche: “If God exists and does not help those who suffer, he is a monster, and if he cannot help them, he is not God, he does not exist.”
To be crushed against the wall. Men lying on the street, dying of cold. Children abandoned and housed in horrific orphanages, where they suffer violence and are abused. That woman, whom I knew in that neighborhood, suffering from Parkinson's disease, abandoned by her husband, whose mentally-ill son beat her with a stick, and was begging for alms. I was overwhelmed…
What a mystery the suffering of so many innocents who bear the sin of others: incest, a violence unheard of, that line of naked women and children going towards the gas chamber, and that deep pain of one of the guards who was hearing inside his heart a voice: get in line with them and go with them to die; and he did not know where that voice was coming from…
Many say that after the horror of Auschwitz it is no longer possible to believe in God. No! It is not true!
In this symphony, Mary is portrayed totally submitted to the scandal of the suffering of the innocents in her own flesh. “Oh, what pain!” a voice sings as a sword pierces her soul, united to all the mothers that watched their children being killed in the concentration camps, that wept while singing Shema Yisrael. We wish to offer this work as a bridge of love and reconciliation.
Kiko Arguello
