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Luigi Giussani

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Luigi Giussani

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“Per non essere vecchi, da giovani o in età matura, bisogna che succeda qualcosa. Qualcosa che, però, duri per sempre, che permetta all’abitudine di avere un’alternativa affettiva e al pensiero una contestazione permanente dei luoghi comuni che premono da ogni parte. Quando poi si è intuito, anche una sola volta, che tutto può essere parte di noi stessi, realmente, che non c’è un nemico che possa incrinare l’esistenza di qualcosa di finalmente trovato, si può vivere questo gusto per sempre. E la vita sembra non finire più.”

Today Don Giussani was welcomed into paradise. I’m so very grateful to him for so much beauty and strength and love that continuously sustains me. I remember when he died, I thought, “Now I can finally talk with him,” and WHAT a conversation it has been! “‘To be reborn in the light’: a human being who is born is an awareness of reality, an intelligence of reality, and a precise affection for reality, an acceptance of reality, an embrace of reality, an immersion in reality; you are immersed in reality exactly like you are immersed in the Mystery of Christ risen. So what characterizes this rebirth or this regeneration? Is there something to which we can reduce the event of this regeneration, the event of this rebirth (I am an other; I am no longer myself, but something else living in me; I am a new ‘I’) as its essential characteristic? What characterizes the new ‘I’ is the truth of things, the truth of reality, a new intelligence of reality in its truth, a love for reality in its truth, an immersion in reality as truth, an immersion in the truth of reality.” ~ Luigi Giussani • Luigi Giovanni Giussani was an Italian Catholic priest, theologian, educator, public intellectual, Servant of God and founder of the international Catholic movement Communion and Liberation. For more: https://english.clonline.org/fr-giussani

“Now it is Holy Week. On Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter, in these four days if you go inside without simply looking Christ in the face, but rather preoccupied about your sins or about perfection or about things to meditate on, you come out tired and pick up where you left off. Looking Christ in the face, instead, you change. But to change, you must truly look Him in the face, with the desire for good, the desire for truth: ‘I am capable of all things, Lord, if I am with you who are my strength.’ It is a You that dominates, not things to respect.” – Fr. Giussani Is It Possible to Live This Way? Vol 2, Hope [Face of Christ (detail) - 6th Century – St Catherine's, Mt. Sinai] • Luigi Giovanni Giussani was an Italian Catholic priest, theologian, educator, public intellectual, Servant of God and founder of the international Catholic movement Communion and Liberation. For more: https://english.clonline.org/fr-giussani • In the eastern apse of the great basilica [of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai], one sees the incomparable mosaic of the Transfiguration, and of the revelations of God to the Prophet Moses. This work dates to the sixth century, and was completed shortly after the construction of the basilica. Christ is depicted in the centre, his face shining like the sun, and his garments as white as light... More: https://www.sinaimonastery.com/index.../en/treasures/mosaics