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Is It Possible to Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence | Vol. 3 - Charity

Luigi Giussani: Is It Possible to Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence | Vol. 3 - Charity

Books

Luigi Giussani: The Work of the Movement - The Fraternity of Communion and Liberation.

Music

O cor soave: The Philippine Lauds - Choir of Communion and Liberation directed by Pippo Molino

Christmas 2009

Why does faith still have any chance at all?… Because it corresponds to the nature of man…. Man possesses an inextinguishable aspiration, full of nostalgia, for an infinite. None of the attempted answers will do; only the God who himself became finite in order to tear open our finitude and lead us into the wide spaces of his infinity, only he corresponds to the question of our being. That is why, even today, Christian faith will come to seek out man again.

Joseph Ratzinger

Now, with our failing muscles, with our exhaustion, with our propensity for melancholy, with this strange masochism that life tends to favor nowadays, or with this indifference and cynicism that life produces nowadays as a way of avoiding the suffering of an excessive and unwanted fatigue, how could we ever accept ourselves and others in the name of a discourse? We cannot sustain love for ourselves unless Christ is a presence, as a mother is a presence for her child. Unless Christ is a presence now – now! – I cannot love myself now and I cannot love you now.

Luigi Giussani

That Nostalgia for the Infinite

Corriere della Sera, 24th December 2009

By: 
Julián Carrón

Dear Editor,
There is a phrase of Dostoevsky that accompanies me these days, when I have to speak of Christianity to all kinds of people in Italy and abroad: “Can an educated man, a European of our time, believe—truly believe—in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ?” This question rings like a challenge for all of us. It is precisely on the answer to this question that the success of the faith depends today. In an address given in 1996, the then cardinal Ratzinger answered that faith can have this hope “because it finds a correspondence in human nature. In man there is a nostalgic hope for the infinite that cannot be extinguished.” In this phrase he indicated the condition necessary: that Christianity needs to find the humanity that pulsates in each of us in order to show all the greatness of its claim.

Related Links: 
That Nostalgia for the Infinite (Complete article on clonline.org)
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