Communion and Liberation Canada

It seems to me particularly important that the theme “The Question of God Today” was chosen this year for the Plenary Assembly. We must never tire of re-proposing this question, of “recommencing from God,” in order to give back to man whole of his dimensions, his full dignity. For a mentality that has been spreading in our time, in renouncing all reference to the transcendent, has shown itself unable to understand and safeguard what is human. The spread of this mentality has generated the crisis we are living in today, which is a crisis of meaning and of values, before being an economic and social crisis. The man who seeks to exist only positivistically, in what is calculable and measurable, ends up suffocated. In this scenario, the question of God is, in a certain sense, “the question of questions.” This brings us back to man’s fundamental questions, to his desire for truth, happiness, and freedom innate in his heart, which seek for realization. The man who reawakens in himself the question of God opens himself to hope, trustworthy hope, which makes it worth his while to take on the effort of journey in the present (cf. Spe Salvi, 1).