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Lectio Petri 2024/2025 cycle was dedicated to the figure of Paul and his lesson, entrusted to the Acts of the Apostles and his writings. A series of appointments along which people debated and reflected around current issues, from conversion to love, from interreligious tension to the faith-religion link.

1ST MEETING

Titled “On the Road to Damascus,” the first meeting had as its central theme that of the conversion of the Apostle Paul. After the introduction, entrusted to the spiritual reflection of Cardinal Gambetti, Cardinal Ravasi and writer Silvia Avallone addressed the theme of conversion through human weaknesses and frailties.

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2ND MEETING

Guest of the evening – entitled “At Corinth: Eros and Agape” – journalist and writer Massimo Gramellini, who was given the conclusion after Cardinal Gambetti’s introduction and Cardinal Ravasi’s lectio. He made it by quoting Paul, Plato, Aphrodite and reflecting on our emotions and the meaning of life.

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3RD MEETING

A completely unprecedented lectio was the one entitled “I Oppose Peter with an Open Face” and focused on the theme of interreligious tension. Here, the words of Cardinal Gambetti and Cardinal Ravasi were accompanied by commentary and notes played by conductor Speranza Scapucci.

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4TH MEETING

The last meeting focused on Paul’s theological masterpiece, the Letter to the Romans. In addition to catching up with Cardinal Gambetti and Cardinal Ravasi, on this occasion the philosopher Umberto Galimberti gave his talk, focusing on the relationship between faith and reason and the conditions necessary for there to be dialogue between antithetical positions.

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