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Fra Massimo Corallo, a young

and enterprising parish priest of

the Parish of Santa Maria di

Gesù, together with a group of Great success and great acceptance for the “con-work”

five young professionals, put the social project created to support those entering the

idea of “Open Church” into world of work and cannot meet the necessary costs of

practice. renting studios or co-working stations and are

consequently forced to working from home in constant

isolation since the start of the pandemic.

Fra Massimo Corallo, young and enterprising pastor of the Parish of Santa Maria di Gesù

together with a group of five young professionals, made up of Epifanio Chiovetta, Rachele

Soma, Irene Fatuzzo, Francesca Magrì and Giuseppe Furneri put into practice the idea

of ”Open Church”, desired by Pope Francis, and have inaugurated for the first time throughout

the national territory not only in Sicily, a free room inside the Church and Convent of Santa

Maria di Gesù in Catania, managed by the Friars Minor of Sicily, with co-working stations to

combat domestic isolation and the economic crisis caused by the covid by providing the

opportunity to a free shared space in which not only to carry out one’s professional activities

but also to relate to others, thus promoting sociality and professional collaborations in full

respect of the Franciscan fraternity.