An arsenal many arsenals: Arsenal of Harmony

It was not used for weapons, indeed from here prayers flew into the sky and like all ancient monasteries it was a strategic point for the surrounding area with the medicinal herb pharmacy, the trout farm and the welcome for travellers. The Camaldolese Hermitage, however, like the Arsenal of Turin, was a ruin when it arrived as a gift from the Somask fathers, with a handshake as if between friends - among Christians you are friends. Here too we rolled up our sleeves without being afraid of the work to be done, more and more of our strengths, more and more difficult than our skills.

Providence acts in disproportion: where you already know how to do everything, where you can do everything alone, there is no room for the creativity of the Spirit, but if you keep the door of your heart open and know how to recognize a plan from God, then help arrives. and they are called Meo who helped us many summers taking buses of young people to remove brambles and plant cherry trees; the help arrives and their name is Giovanni who with his tractor at the beginning when there was nothing there he came and did; Andrea who one day knocked and asked if he could serve a baker... Help arrives and they are called not simply volunteers, but friends.

Yes, because here we would like to be a welcoming family together, not simply people who give and people who receive. We all need to receive kindness and we all have so much good to bring out.
The Arsenal of Harmony resembles the Arsenal of Turin because here lives a brotherhood of normal people, with many defects and differences, who however want to put the Lord at the center and not their own self, whether good or bad, a community that he really prays, body and soul, sometimes in church, sometimes while hoeing or kneading a biscuit, answering the telephone or emptying a bin.

Arsenal of Harmony
SPECIAL: An Arsenal that speaks
NP June / July 2023