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"...and I continue along the lines of Giussani’s thought...– Jesus is encountered, just as 2,000 years ago, in a human presence, the Church, the company of those whom He assimilates to Himself, His Body, the sign and sacrament of His Presence."
Pope Francis
Un giovane scrive: "Dove vado se voglio solo la Verità?"
Un giovane scrive: “Dove vado se voglio solo la Verità?”
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A margine della protesta lanciata da Simon sull’insulso Sinodo dei Giovani appena conclusosi, mi permetto di rilanciare su queste colonne la lettera di un diciottenne malato che pervenne a Franco Nembrini il Natale scorso. La stessa è stata pubblicata da poco, con il permesso dell’autore, sul sito internet del professore bergamasco con l’esplicito titolo “il grido“.
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"Either a human act carries with it the responsibility for the universe or is done according to the good of the whole, or it's against the good of all."
Don Giussani
“Monsignor Giussani, with his fearless and unfailing faith, knew that, even in this situation, Christ, the encounter with Him, remains central, because whoever does not give God, gives too little, and whoever does not make people find God in the Fact of Christ, does not build, but destroys, because he gets human activity lost in ideological and false dogmatisms. Fr Giussani kept the centrality of Christ and, exactly in this way, with social works, with necessary service, he helped mankind in this difficult world, where the responsibility of Christians for the poor in the world is enormous and urgent.”
Pope Benedict XVI
"Faced with the evil within us, our dominating desire as Christians cannot be the mere resolve to act out of our own strength alone in order to eliminate that evil. For our own strength is grounded in the same weak stuff as the ego and self-will in us that generated the evil in the first place. Our dominating desire therefore must really be for that Something that lies beneath and supports and yet stands outside of our own strength, for our strength by itself is more like weakness. For that reason alone, we must seek Something that can remedy our weakness and turn it into strength; Something that is at the same time rooted even more deeply in us than is our attachment to our own passions."
Don Giussani
“So when you are returning to the journey, you put yourself in the condition to enjoy things, to understand them, to use them with purity and with a gusto that your companion would have not even imagined as possible. In fact, your friend is obliged to call happiness an instinct that burns the present moment. He needs to continually multiply it so that it continues to burn. However, you don’t have the impression that things are burning. A moment after another, a day after another—a rainy day and then sunny the next day—you understand that you are building your journey to your destiny. You build and the other burns. At night, if you look at your day, your friend remains with a handful of ashes. You, however, can look back at the end of the day and say, ‘I made a mistake here and there, but I am walking. Even when everything went wrong, what dominates me is the will to walk. Help me, Lord, to be better tomorrow than today.’ You build a journey, and your friend doesn’t. Rather, he destroys. And he will destroy everything that he touches, especially people. He will not love anyone, but will only look to exploit.”
Luigi Giussani
"If the first thing that God does is to love you, what is the most immediate imitation of God? Imitation of God is the surprise of loving oneself, of wanting oneself. If one does not have love, tenderness, for himself, then he does not imitate God in anything; if one does not imitate God in loving, then he cannot imitate God, because the first and fundamental thing with which God reveals Himself to man, who is made in His image and likeness, the first likeness with God is to love oneself. Because the first thing that God does is to love you."
Luigi Giussani
"We must have forgiveness for those who are different. I say it all the time: forgiveness is embracing what is different. However, for this to happen, much more than making the resolution to forgive, understand, and let things go, much more than directly resolving, it is better to resolve to be conscious of why we are together, of the reason 'why.' If this consciousness of the reason why I must understand, not remain indifferent, and forgive, grows, then it becomes easier also to forgive, to understand, etc."
Luigi Giussani
