Tagged: Reggio Emilia Group

We meet at the group for LGBT Christians and their parents in Reggio Emilia to get to know each other and pray together thanks to the availability of our parish priest who opened the doors of the pastoral unit of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Reggio Emilia to us. We hope to build together a church journey where the people who are welcomed can feel at home without prejudice, fear and obstacles but feeling at ease, welcomed, protected and safe in the community.
Whether you are a gay, lesbian, trans Christian person or their parent, we are waiting for you, it is time to walk together.
To participate in this new reality you can contact Giovanni Dazzi via email gdsr64@gmail.com or on cell.339/1625560

2021 / Online prayer Testimonies / parents / In Vigil

When I rejected my son because he's gay

Mara Grassi's testimony held in the online prayer of the Week of Prayer for the Victims of Homophobia and Transphobia on May 13, 2021 A "gay", "homosexual" son, words I couldn't even pronounce. 16 years have passed since, one evening in December, I entered his room and asked him. Some signs had thrown me into a...

parents

A Catholic mother in front of the civil union of an LGBT daughter

Testimony from Valeria, a mother from the Regina Coeli group in Reggio Emilia. I would like to share a reflection with you. I remember that about three years ago I participated in the civil union of two girls who attended our LGBT parish group. During their ceremony I had some difficulty enjoying the joy of the two girls, because I felt a certain discomfort inside that...

Gionata's Tent Initiatives / Appointments

11 November 2020 on the radio at "Il Diario di Gionata" with Christian parents with LGBT children

“You become parents for the first time when your child is born, their coming out makes us rediscover them for the second time. But when we become aware that we can help the church be more inclusive of us and them, we become parents for the third time." This phrase effectively summarizes the journey of 3voltegenitori, the network for Christian parents...

Jonathan's Tent Testimonials / The debate in the Churches

Pope Francis to parents with LGBT children: "The Church loves your children as they are"

Article published in “Noi, famiglia & Vita”, monthly supplement of the Avvenire newspaper of 25 October 2020, pp.16-17 When on Wednesday 16 September (2020), at the end of the general audience, Mara Grassi vice-president of the “Tenda di Gionata" together with her husband Agostino Usai, gave Pope Francis the booklet "Lucky Parents" and a rainbow colored t-shirt with the writing "There is no fear in love" (1Jn....

Jonathan's Tent Testimonials / The debate in the Churches

Pope Francis to parents: «The Church loves your LGBT children just as they are»

Article by Luciano Moia published in Avvenire, newspaper of the Italian Episcopal Conference, on 17 September 2020, page. 19 «The Pope loves your children as they are, because they are children of God». This is what Pope Francis said yesterday, at the end of the audience, welcoming a group of parents with LGBT children from the Tenda di Gionata association. There were about forty fathers and...