L a phrase uttered John Paul II in the Plaza de Colon in Madrid on May 4, 2003, the culmination of the last visit made in Spain. Yesterday met six years before the death of the pope, who will be beatified on 1 May by Pope Benedict XVI. For this reason, yesterday I attended, along with some friends and regular readers of this blog, a screening of a documentary about five visits John Paul II made to our country throughout his pontificate.
The sentence that I liked today's post holder is not far from the most important of his speeches, but involves a much deeper meaning than a mere slogan biensonante. And, sometimes, there is the misconception -even between Catholics that the Christian life is incompatible with modernity or with the many manifestations of contemporary culture that need not necessarily be rejected by a Christian.
Certainly, being a Christian is a way of living according to values, which excludes other ways of living that are deeply rooted in today's relativistic culture, but being Christian does not mean the necessary assumption of conservative lifestyles, traditional and even archaic.
By contrast, the Catholic can and, to some extent, must- be a "very now" while deeply faithful to the Gospel, because it has to take the exciting challenge of proposing effectively their peers a message that is timeless and universal a Gospel message is for all men, for all classes for all ages, for all peoples ...
And is that Catholics do not we are called to live in a ghetto, in a matrix cultural, social or historical but on the contrary, fully integrated into a society of which we are part, that we love deeply, and whose construction contribute, without complex, bringing the perspective of our Christian faith.
Greetings to all.
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