A clarification written from Massimo Coppo himself on the Mission “Assisi Assisi!”

St. Francis sided openly and indissolubly with the poor; he wanted that his friars had to be called "minores" and, as we read in his writings, had to be happy to live "between people insignificant and despised, among the poor and weak, the sick and the lepers and the beggars along the way". Of beggars in Assisi I know two or three of them, we became friends, and I feel "honored" for their friendship. I am not a beggar, my request - and the offers I receive - are related to a book I wrote (in the first edition published in 2007 by the Cesvol - Volunteer Service Centre of Perugia) "From the Land of Assisi the Spirit of Prophecy on the collapse of economy", translated in English - now in French - is appreciated by so many.

For years now I'm always at Assisi, though not far from my community, "Families of Bethlehem" in Rocca Sant'Angelo - 12 km from Assisi - where I go back only once, at the most twice a week for a few hours, for fulfillments without a possibility of delay. People ask me why I wear a sackcloth and, in winter, if I don't feel cold on my feet. I reply that I am not a fakir, I feel a little cold, but I offer it to God. Very different the penances that Francis and his companions were offering to God, to fulfill the mandate to "repair the house of Jesus Christ", the Church. During the night I'm under the arcades of the Basilica of the Saint, from time to time someone comes to see me, we pray, we share, "conspiring" so that in Assisi may be renewed the wonders of love, healing, salvation and praise as in the ancient Assisi.

Of course my clothing is reminding the clothes woren - in a far more worthy way - by Francis and his companions; and as it was for Francis, the ultimate aim of my mission in Assisi is the love and the good for the Church. Recently the Pope has repeatedly urged to do penance for the Church, more and more persecuted from outside but also from within, by those false ministers that the Pope has called the real enemies of the Church. But compared to the scenery in which St. Francis lived and worked, by now we are in the last times, the "great tribulation" has begun, of which Jesus spoke in His much neglected and misunderstood "prophetic speech" in which he listed the "signs" preceding His return, there are all of them! And that's why, in the proclamations that I loudly proclaim in the streets and squares of Assisi - sometimes a song or a reading of the writings of St. Francis - I also share passages of the prophecies had by  Marcello Ezekiel, the man to whom I owe my return in the Catholic Church, and to whom the Lord has given - in periods of penance and disease - revelations that have no equal in the Church: on Rome, on the Vatican, on Assisi, on the collapse of the economy.