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Silvano Piovanelli Quotes

1924–2016 Italy

Silvano Piovanelli (21 February 1924 – 9 July 2016) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Florence.

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The most important thing for the Church, then, is not doing, but being: choosing, as Mary of Bethany, the better part, sitting at the feet of the Beloved and drinking His word with joy. Certainly not so as to live a solitary inwardness and hunched in on oneself, but so as to give strong witness of that Love, that through us wishes to reach all.

Grasping the essential with clarity (2005)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Silvano Piovanelli (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.