Monsignor Luigi Giovanni Giussani

"This is “the time of our judgment.” Not “of Your judgment,” Pope Francis insisted, boldly addressing God, “but of our judgment: a time to choose what matters and what passes away, a time to separate what is necessary from what is not.” It is the time of conversion, where that word no longer corresponds to any kind of moralism, as if it were just an ethical effort: what is asked of us is a particular gaze on reality. To whom do we look? What do we seek? What is needed is a step that occurs at the level of knowledge.

This has been the message of many people, expressed in many ways, over the last weeks, and you will find examples in the following pages. If this dramatic emergency were to simply pass by without an increase in our awareness, that would be one more misfortune on top of the insupportable weight of so much death. Even worse: it would lay another stone on the tomb of our humanity, leaving us even more lost and empty than before."

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"Those who have not found the Heaven below, will fail of it above” Does Christianity still have something to say to our societies? La scommessa cattolica, the book by Chiara Giaccardi and Mauro Magatti, presented in Milan with Massimo Recalcati, Julián Carrón and Mario Calabresi, attempts to answer this question.

"Allow me to wish you for Easter what I would wish for everyone: hope is a certainty in the future in virtue of a reality that is present. Not any presence whatsoever, but the presence of Christ, made known by Our Lady, which makes us certain of the future, and therefore an incessant journey is possible, for young and old, for adults and youngsters alike, an incessant journey, a striving without limits, starting from the certainty that since He possesses history, He will reveal Himself in history. This expectation is a moment of the day in which we are almost continually solicited by the whole of Christian history to participate: it is the Eucharist, the offering of Christ, died and risen, to the Father, because Christ belongs to the Father, and I belong to Him in the hours and minutes of this day."

"As I see it, only two types of men capture entirely the grandeur of the human being: the anarchist and the authentically religious man. By nature, man is relation to the infinite: on the one hand, the anarchist affirms himself to an infinite degree, while, on the other, the authentically religious man accepts the infinite as his meaning." -Luigi Giussani

Echoes. A Call to Conversion. Published 7/7/2015 Echoes is the opinion section of TheBostonPilot.com. The Boston Pilot is a daily news Catholic newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts, covering news and opinion about the Catholic Church and Catholic life. We carry daily news from Boston, New England, US, the Vatican, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Cen…

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"Wounded By the Desire for Beauty" At the request of Pope John Paul II, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger served as the principal celebrant and homilist for the funeral mass of Msgr. Luigi Giussani in the Cathedral of Milan, on Februar...

"An event so unforeseen
still happens here and now.
In our broken history
there's a new reality,
if you're more aware than dreamers ever dare.
Come and share our liberty,
follow us and you will see
a new nation,
a new creation."

"Uncertainty in relationships is one of the most terrible afflictions of our generation. It is difficult to become certain about relationships, even within the family. We live as if we were seasick, with such insecurity in the fabric of our relations that we no longer build what is human. We might construct skyscrapers, atomic bombs, the most subtle systems of philosophy, but we no longer build the human because it consists of relationships."

Pope Francis' take on 'the religious sense' By Father Robert Barron. Pontiff recognizes threat secularism poses to asking fundamental questions about our existence, life

"The capacity to encounter is about the Christian’s stance towards the world and especially towards other persons, the ability, achieved through grace, to stand towards the world as Christ stood towards the world."

Pope Francis & Encounter | National Catholic Reporter Michael Sean Winters | Aug. 19, 2013Distinctly CatholicPrintemailPDFAn emerging, dominant theme of this pontificate is the word “encounter.” Pope Francis uses it repeatedly, urging Catholics to go out to the peripheries, especially to the poor and the marginalized, and encounter other persons. Amo...

"Having a clear faith, based on the Creed of the Church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism. Whereas, relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and “swept along by every wind of teaching”, looks like the only attitude (acceptable) to today’s standards. We are moving towards a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires."

Cardinal Ratzinger's "Dictatorship of Relativism" Homily