Carry a written Don Tonino Bello
from "without measure" (ed. 2010 second edition of the sundial), the words addressed to professionals of the city and industry.
"Those who say that the doctrine of Christ is the enemy of the state, give us those subjects which require that the Christian doctrine, and then dare call her an enemy of the state: they would rather confess that if it was observed, would be the salvation of the powerful state. "(St. Augustine Ep. 138, 2, 15)
The watchmen of the city
"To you who are accustomed to think a little more than the others, who read more, you hear more, you men of culture, men of the book and the daily routine, you would like sentinels of the city to ask this question: where is our city? Where are we going?
But I want to reflect with you on things that happen in my house, that is in that area, in those places where I'm supposed to supervise, to be a bishop in the etymological sense of the word overseer.
In terms of spiritual life, there is a lot of religious life appearance. There is a lot like the sacred in our city but little desire for holiness.
The sacred is a dye that we put out according to our tastes. Holiness is instead the inner life, you listen, you want to tap into groundwater groundwater flowing water from the deep silence of the great values \u200b\u200bof life, contemplation, wonder, love for things, respect for others, love for God and the polarization of one's life around Him This is holiness.
Now I would like to invite you to be the promoters of this holiness more than it is the bishop. Because the bishop, the bishop also, unfortunately, is a holy man, I see many, many times asked about the processions, the rituals. Man of the sacred.
You, the promoters of holiness. I appeal to the secular holiness in everyone you can be suppliers, actors and secular proponents Holiness, Gospel values \u200b\u200bwhich then are the values \u200b\u200bthat emanate from the bowels of the earth.
Solidarity. Solidarity is not intended as a vague feeling of adolescence, but how to bear the sufferings of others, the suffering of the city ..
Transparency. The transparency of life because there are no divisions between the audio and video. There is very sound in our churches. But the video there is little, it feels good, but the video is striped, and there are interference.
acceptance of the other. The search for the other.
understand then? Cause these samples from the bowels of the territory. This promotion is new to the city. The secular holiness, the promotion of these values.
What your children learn from you that pride that makes the great man, than human pride, those inner independence, subordination of those awards only before God but servants of all slaves of anyone. Prosthesis in this extraordinary service of mankind. How about you will for being the promoters of this holiness urban (business), this secular holiness, democratization, popular.
The langue of inner cities.
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