On 22 August 1909 he opened the “Splendor” youth club where he made young people study religion with a three-year course for a clearer knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, morals and liturgy. It stimulated interest and profit with contests, lotteries and sacred theatrical performances. Having gained a profound experience, he tried to open and organize oratories in the Diocese. To this end he organized the Palma di Montechiaro Convention from 3 to 5 July 1914 where he held a documented report, making proposals to found new ones and organize the existing ones. The conference was very successful but the war blocked its realization. To follow and stay close to the young people who had left for the war, he set up a people's secretariat, welcomed refugees and helped orphans. In 1920 he was the animator of the Quisquina Convention which was attended by 200 young people from neighboring countries and there he was the birthplace of the Italian Catholic Action in the Diocese of which he was appointed Diocesan Assistant, placing his headquarters in S. Giovanni Gemini.

Don Michele also devoted himself to economic and social activity to raise the conditions of farmers and fight usury. He was secretary, president and director of the local Cassa Rurale e Artigiana managing to consolidate this Institute so much that he was able to rent the former fiefdom of Ficuzza and buy that of Giardinello to the great advantage of the peasants who endured embezzlement and abuse by the bosses. In the midst of so many commitments he always found the time to write the texts of the catechism of his young people, articles to propagate the idea of oratories in the provincial and national newspapers and even tried the weekly publication "La Via" but death prevented him.

In November 1917 he was appointed Vicar Bursar of the Matrix following the illness and then the death of the Arc. Foreigners: he taught the people how to participate in sacred functions, preached without getting tired, reorganized the catechism, built a magnificent chapel in honor of the patron St. John the Baptist where his mortal remains are now preserved. On December 19, 1921 he wanted to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the priesthood surrounded by numerous friends and personalities from all over the province. He was struck down by an inexorable throat disease, after specialists specially called from Palermo to attempt an operation in vain. Surrounded by the generation of young people he had formed, he passed away on April 22, 1922.