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Christ Is Our Truth
Christ Truth is the root of the gift of God. To
make this truth resound within us, first of all let us listen to these
words of Pope John Paul II, which sound so much like Alberione: "The heart
of the human person, in its depths, awaits, the whole person awaits the
whole Christ." It means discovering experientially the non-truth of the
person, the person's essential powerlessness to save him/herself : human
beings are not dependable. This brings us radically to Christ; he is the
sure, the reliable way: "Behold the man" (Jn. 19:5).
This root experience of God in Christ becomes the message
of salvation for our restless generation which, also because of the influence
of the Marxist ideology, is falling slave to an "existential judgment"
which binds persons to their weaknesses, their betrayal, their wretchedness,
etc., to the condemnation of historical analysis, to lack of hope. We
have a message of authentic liberation to offer to humankind, without
any inferiority complexes, without the need for any compromise with ideologies.
Christ Truth is the "yes" of the promises of God.
The concrete proposal which God makes to you is to offer him your body
"as a living sacrifice" (Rm. 12:1), as a place in which today he can continue
the work of the incarnation of his Son: to make of your life, before the
nations, before the people of your generation, this new Amen.
Amen: sign--sacrament of the fidelity/trustworthiness
of God to humanity, where the promises of God continue to be fulfilled,
where God continues to be "the One who saves" humankind. Amen: response
of human persons "for the glory of God" (cf. 2 Cor. 1:20), testimony of
the truth/trustworthiness of the way of God, of his ability to save, of
his way of saving.
Christ Truth speaks the Words of God and gives the
Spirit.
Having become the "Amen of God," the abode of his truth,
of his manifestation, you too are called with Christ to a mission to the
people of today. If you also have heard and seen God, you will be able
to run through the streets of the world, as St. Paul, as Fr. Alberione,
repeating to your companions on the journey "the words of God" and communicating
the Spirit to them. This is something which impresses me: we are not ideologies;
we do not bring ideologies or morals. We bring and we have the power to
communicate the new life itself, the new person. To the person of today,
to ourselves, often so disoriented, so deluded, so frustrated; to the
person of today so tired of ideologies, of words without value, without
truth or trustworthiness, to the poor person "on the journey," "on the
way," to this person and for this person God has a word to speak. God
has God's Spirit to communicate freely.
The Pauline apostolate, evangelization using the media
of communications, evangelization through being communications ourselves
of Christ the Master, is nothing else than speaking that word. We cannot
reduce it to anything else than to speak the Words of God, communicating
the Holy Spirit.
Christ the Truth consecrates in the truth. This
mission is lived not in a personal dimension but in a communitarian dimension.
We are called to become people of God, called as an assembly, the community
of the saved. To the person of today so tried by solitude, by the hopelessness
of solitude, we are sent as Church, as a community. The community is a
place where one lives the encounter with God and with one's brothers and
sisters. The community is a manner, a style of life, where the Christian
character - received in baptism - is formed, is molded day after day in
the encounter with the will of God.
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