1994 – 2024
30 years of the Saint Michael Archangel Foundation
S.Em. Card.
Matteo Maria Zuppi
President Italian Bishops’ Conference in dialogue
“Misericordia in Opera”
6 September at 11 a.m.
Sala Bolognini – Basilica Patriarcale di San Domenico
Vicolo Santa Lucia, 40124 Bologna BO
“No fim tudo dá certo, e se não deu certo é porque ainda não chegou ao fim.”
“Everything will be fine in the end. If it does not go well, then it is not the end.”
Fernando Sabino
“Worry more about your conscience than your reputation. Because your conscience is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you. And what others think of you is their problem.”
Charlie Chaplin
“The Holy Spirit does not reign in abstract disembodied spirituality – which many moralists love – but seeks the mire of our sins to absolve us and put us back on our feet. Indeed, its most moving kenosis consists precisely in immersing itself within our limitations and sins to free us from any bondage from within.”
Card. Marc Oullet
“You can fool everyone for some time and some forever, but you cannot fool everyone forever.”
Abraham Lincoln
“A lie makes time to travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”
Winston Churchill
Founded more than 25 years ago in Bergamo, the San Michele Arcangelo Foundation represents the synthesized crossroads of a group of Organisations which feels strongly about Education, Training, Employment, Research and Sustainability.
The most concise and aware formulation of the nature, purpose and working directions of the Foundation can be found in Article 2 of its Statute.
OPERA (Charitable Organisation)
Fondazione San Michele Arcangelo is an Opera, i.e. a reality that wants to contribute to the mission of the Church. It is also structured and managed according to a business logic, but not for profit, but with the purpose of social utility, to which any operating surplus is redirected.
CATHOLIC ROOTS
RELIGIOUS SENSE
The Foundation, which is Catholic with regard to the experience from which it originates, addresses the religious sense of man, that is, that core of irreducible evidence and needs – of truth, justice, happiness, love – that constitutes the ‘heart’ of the human being.
THE PERSON
The purpose of the Foundation is to promote the integral realisation of the person, accompanying and supporting, through the rediscovery of the religious sense as a criterion for personal action, the natural inclination towards self-fulfilment, the apex of which is freedom, understood as the full satisfaction of one’s desires.
BEAUTY
The Foundation’s actions are also characterised by:
- the experience of beauty – present in nature and in human cultural, technical and artistic expressions – as the possibility of a journey of discovery of truth and one’s own desire;
PARTICIPATION
The participation of all those who share its purpose in the construction of the Work and the realisation of the common good;
TRANSPARENCY
Transparency of internal and external relations and of information management, to promote the sharing of the Foundation’s aims;
MODERATION
The style is marked by sobriety, an attitude that indicates the pre-eminence of the other as good for oneself and is expressed in an essentiality and reserve that is an attention and service to the other;
SUSTAINABILITY
Commitment to development according to a logic of sustainability, inspired by the criteria of an integral ecology, which unites the human, social, economic and environmental dimensions;
WORLD
Openness to the world as a fundamental aspect of human and professional growth, which opens the mind to different experiences and cultures and is also characterised by valuing encounters with the other.
The activities are based on five essential principles:
EDUCATION – TRAINING – EMPLOYMENT – RESEARCH – SUSTAINABILITY
San Michele Arcangelo Foundation, founding partner of all the Group’s Organisations, stands as guarantor of the purpose, method and steering and appoints the statutory bodies of each of them.
THE FOUNDER
Le Opere della San Michele Arcangelo sono state fondate da Daniele Nembrini, sposato e padre di tre figli.
Daniele nasce nel 1968 a Trescore Balneario (BG), ultimo di dieci figli. La sua vocazione per l’educazione e la formazione viene da lontano: già nel 1956 infatti suo padre, Dario, ha aperto nella sua officina meccanica quella che oggi si chiamerebbe “scuola-bottega”.
THE IDENTITY OF THE ORGANISATIONS
The Organisations in the San Michele Arcangelo Foundation, which are rooted in Catholicism, did not, paradoxically, come into being to respond to the needs of others, but first and foremost to our own: to the need for meaning that we all have. And so we try, as best we can, to respond to the needs of others – which we recognise, in the end, as identical to our own.
