Introduction
Benedict XVI tells us, in these pages, two attributes essential to understanding the mystery of Christian salvation. The first word is beauty: it reveals the relentless human yearning for truth, justice and goodness, that is the longing of God for this experience of beauty is fundamental in human life and culture. But the beauty hides in itself a duality, and perhaps a misunderstanding, which ultimately makes the man, in the words of the gospel, "fatigued and tired."
Only in Christ shines with the beauty of the Being of God, and only in Christ and through Christ, this beauty becomes a human experience. A beauty, marked pain, pain that takes up most accomplished and human truth. Because of Christ, who died in pain, and proves to implement the Father's love for man, for every man. So Christ is revealed today, "the Way, the Truth and the Life."
According to his memorable phrase used at the Meeting in Rimini in 1982 by Pope John Paul II: "The humanity of Christ through the mystery of the Cross and Resurrection, has become the place where the man won but not annihilated by sin, has regained his humanity."
Only in Christ shines with the beauty of the Being of God, and only in Christ and through Christ, this beauty becomes a human experience. A beauty, marked pain, pain that takes up most accomplished and human truth. Because of Christ, who died in pain, and proves to implement the Father's love for man, for every man. So Christ is revealed today, "the Way, the Truth and the Life."
According to his memorable phrase used at the Meeting in Rimini in 1982 by Pope John Paul II: "The humanity of Christ through the mystery of the Cross and Resurrection, has become the place where the man won but not annihilated by sin, has regained his humanity."
The second word is the Church.
The Church is the place through which every man finds access to the Father and becomes a child of God in His people. We really belong to his people, that does not arise "from the flesh and blood, but by the Spirit which continuously generates and regenerates it.
Belong to the Church is to live without the drama of his own conversion reduced to moralism or organizations.
Thus, in the Church and the Church, our intelligence and our hearts are freed.
Introduction
"The fundamental liberation that the Church can give us is it to be in the horizon of the Lord, is come out from the limits of our knowledge and our power" (p. 44). All my life that is renewed in concrete and in daily story. It is on land that is experienced in every moment of the eternity of God Truly "Gloria Dei, Homo vivens.
Thus, in the Church and the Church, our intelligence and our hearts are freed.
Introduction
"The fundamental liberation that the Church can give us is it to be in the horizon of the Lord, is come out from the limits of our knowledge and our power" (p. 44). All my life that is renewed in concrete and in daily story. It is on land that is experienced in every moment of the eternity of God Truly "Gloria Dei, Homo vivens.
Thank you, Your Holiness.
Bishop Luigi Negri
Bishop of San Marino – Montefeltro
Pennabilli, August 3, 2005
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