The journalist from Jaen Antonio Cattoni He delivered the Pregón de la Esperanza in its L edition in the Basilica of María Auxiliadora in front of many participants who closely followed his speech by one of the legendary voices of the show ‘The Caller’ on Canal Sur Radio, … and at the same time collaborator of Pasión in Seville. The Oliva de Salteras group was responsible for accompanying him during this event. In his text, Cattoni has woven a back and forth with a desperate starting point until reaching the definitive desire in which we will all find ourselves, without forgetting all the painful things that Esperanza does in Seville.
Cattoni opened with a tenth this proclamation which celebrates its golden anniversary in a particular year for said dedication to Hope after the restoration of the Macarena and the mission of Hope of Triana. The crier was undoubtedly clinging to the narrow heart of the Trinitarian hope, so divine and so human. “Virgin of Sol Street / that there is no room on Sol Street / that you open your chest without a key / and you shine, without a lantern. / Enlighten me in the role / to be the spearhead today. / Let’s see if the proclamation is / worthy of your name. / To have doubts is… to be a man. / I go hand in hand, Esperanza.
Then the Herald of Hope turned to Dante and other literary references, descending to the same hells and others inhospitable places where despair is present. “Death does not have the last word. We do not seek among the dead those who are alive. “It is when Esperanza, you leave us by the hand, to deliver us to fullness,” Cattoni advanced before devoting a more visual romance to Esperanza, which, in the author’s words, “is a definitive song. / Totality consummated. / Victoria, happy meeting / hug in this square. / A commitment that has been fulfilled / and a debt that has been settled, / what the compasses, the bells / and You suggest when you finally cross this door / / Trinitarian hope.
Cattoni was referring to half of a piece of cloth in which a crier placed all his faith. It was not just any piece, but the one that “a newborn mother cuts in two”. She explained that there was one who had to go to a nursery to give birth, and she left half of this piece of cloth, before ringing the bell to activate a winch so that the baby could be retrieved and she could keep the missing piece. This piece was a hope, said the journalist. Because even though it happened a long time ago, “today there are also children in difficulty.” Something that, in the crier’s words, he knows well the brotherhood of O. He asked him to put them under his protection. “Rose that God chose / In an April garden. /Take care of the little one./ Our mother of the O.”, ended the verses dedicated to her.
He continued to tell the story of Stanley Francis Rothen, Father Aplas. Franciscan priest who volunteered on the shores of Lake Atitlán during the Guatemalan War. Despite the difficulties, he remained with the people: “Who would support his Hope?”» asked Cattoni. He was assassinated and the natives still retain an image of him in procession today. “Like Blessed Aplás, so many others do not quietly leave the hands of those who might fall into hell,” he added, comparing the work of the American Franciscan with that done by the Sisters of the Cross in so many corners of the world as well as with that of theat the Emmaüs-Espoir de la Trinité reception house for prisoners.
Manifestos of social justice which “although they change with patience”, actions like those of the brotherhood of Esperanza de Triana on mission to Polígono Sur and to which the journalist dedicated the Salve. “The mother of Jesús Obrero, worker,” Cattoni renamed Hope, a “flower” that springs from “the twisted furrows of the Lord. Hope that confuses “Las Vegas with Bethlehem.” “Your son, fallen God, fell here. /Always come back, because in Tres Mil a faded, handmade sign awaits you:/ “Welcome, Missionary Hope,” the journalist concluded.
From Triana and Tres Mil, the crier went to San Roque, in Virgin of Grace and Hope. He introduced the verses he dedicated to her by borrowing Machín’s song from Hope in his song “Espérame en el cielo”. And the smile comes to the Cuban singer when he sees the magical clash of the sticks of the Mother of San Roque, said Cattoni. He continues to direct his affections towards the Virgin of Grace and Hope: “Everything in his path rejoices/ and on the way it also becomes clear/ that in the movement of the scenes/ the light, which is already playing in his home,/ splashes his face:/ he hides, returns and escapes.” I continue with the emotion of waiting for the Virgin Daughter of San Roque, to whom the arrival of her son, the arrival of childbirth, “splashes her face”.
Restoration of the Macarena
In his text he recalled the Mexican Juan Diego, who on December 12 received the last of the apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe on the hill of Tepeyac. Juan Diego was afraid and the Virgin calmed this feeling. A fear which recommended “going to the plural”, since it involved the people present who They were afraid “of forever losing the face in which we recognize ourselves”alluding to Esperanza Macarena. He remembered the words of Charo Padilla in his proclamation: “I am with Hope, nothing can happen to me.” A confidence and tranquility that, as the journalist says, the inhabitants of Seville felt when they saw on December 8 the magnificent work carried out by Pedro Manzano. “And as Javier Macías said in his magnificent text, all his people were there: those of yesterday, those of today, those of tomorrow,” invented Cattoni. “After the unease and the schism/the anxiety and the agitation,/look at her face and then/you will notice that she is the same,” we heard the crier say, who once again elevated the Macarena to the rank of standard against fear: “With you, who said fear?/Long live the Macarena!”
He closed his speech, as it could not be otherwise, with Trinitarian Hope, which accompanied him throughout the evening. “I tried to weave together, to build a story that allows us to discover Hope, from the doors of despair, to lead to fullness,” recognized the crier, who affirmed that “despite everything, there are reasons to hope.” “I remain here, at the feet of Mary Help of Christians and always under her protection; at the entrance to Trinidad that I have told so many times for Canal Sur Radio“He continued, protected by the mantle of Hope before intoning his final plea. “Your name is not a suggestion/ But a concrete force/ if life sinks really/ into an impasse”, he says of Hope, of “Revolutionary Calm”. »Anchor, bow and light/ of a Spanish brig/ sailing along Sol Street: Trinidadian Hope«.
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