You can live like this? A strange approach
Christian existence (read Chapter I - Faith)
A basic method for the culture and history (p. 27)
I. Culture, history and human society, based on this kind of knowledge called faith (indirect knowledge, knowledge of a reality through the mediation of a witness)
"... Take this knowledge to mediation, you must remove all human culture, all, because all human culture is based on the fact that one begins with what he has discovered another, and goes on ... " An essential prerequisite
(p. 28)
I. the object of all this is the field that will deepen the faith, the reality is viewed and lived in
Faith "... speaking of Christ, the soul, the fate of the Mystery, is to talk about faith. The content of all that we say you can not see, yet we can know through testimony of witnesses through ... "
II. The word faith will be developed at the most important: that the fate
... what we are interested in the dialogue between us is the destiny you and me and her and another and another. The fate that sees it? Who did you see? People who take an umbrella because it was raining, and going on the sidewalk with a new coat, white, smooth as those encountered at some point, after 34 steps, the fate? He can not find! The fate you can not see. Destiny is by its nature Mystery ... "
III. The method of faith is one in which reason is more exalted
A. because a trust must commit himself completely (name, eyes, heart, everything)
1. the method of faith involves a more complete reason, a reason in its links with other aspects of personality
2. For this reason, the person is more united, living all aspects of the personality, is much less difficult to understand whether or not to trust the other
"... those who are not pathological never trust anyone, can not trust most nothing, you cut off the life ...".
B. outside the faith, reason is engaged in a partial way, in relation to a type of object
"... a man who knows all about the fly and make a big book on fly of 1500 pages ... and his wife does not understand one iota - and his children hate him so much it hurt them - is a poor man, not a Nobel Prize ... He is very sharp in a segment of reality ... Fly ... knows all about this, but knows nothing of his fate or the situation of others. It is a poor man, despite being a Nobel Prize ... "
IV.
A. speak of faith as recognition of an invisible reality content
B. how this content is achieved through reason, through the method of faith, See the testimony
observation capital: the more one is moral, the more able to trust, at least one is moral, let alone is capable of trust in the text
L. Giussani, The Religious Sense, in the journey of faith, Signatures Gold, Rizzoli, Milano, 2007, p.. 32, we define moral values, those concerning human behavior in its aspect of meaning (if you can you trust this man or not, how far you can make the claim, what you value than another if that the person is honest or not). Later, on page. 46, states that morality consists in a correct position of the heart: love for the truth of the object more than has been attached to the comments which we have already made up for it.
"the Lord has given you an example, a paradigm of this attitude of love for the truth:" If you will not be as Children do not enter the kingdom of heaven. "It is an ideal of infantilism that has given us, but of sincerity in the face of active real, in front of the object that is taken into consideration." But .., if ... But they say ..."; "bread bread and wine to wine," or even as Christ said: "your saying is 'yes', 'no', and every other position is the lie."
call to prayer ( p. 32).
A. I must pray to God to be truly moral to say yes to what is good and say no to what is negative
B. because the man is evil, and says it is bad also no evidence
C. caprice is the position in which men are with regard to life in its meaning that is in front of the fate
"A child who puts up a fuss, you put a glass under his nose and say:" It's a glass, right? Carlino, say that is a glass. Is this a glass here? "." No! "" It's a glass? "He says no, because it is capricious"
II. Giussani is a witness as well as all fellow travelers biggest
III. with faith, trusting these witnesses, we arrive at the truth, otherwise there would never to say with certainty
IV. because it is the fate, never comes to meaning, means to destroy life
Resumption of thoughts (p. 33)
I. work is
the expression of man "it is the active relationship that exists between me live, I imagine, think, feel, and do according to what I think and feel, and the reality, so he uses the Actually, use the time and space and creates his own life. On the basis that it creates will be judged. "
II. the word destiny dominates life and no one who you think
"There in the week, which is the key measure of expressiveness of the work that the person, given one minute to think about their fate, for what and then you work for where you live ... is suffering, one rejoices, we use things and create what appears to be more just, more pleasant. "
III. the content of the road you will travel is fear and trembling for the fate, destiny is the desire and expectation of a joyous destiny
IV. what determines the prayer is the passion and concern for their fate
V. must be careful in prayer
"because there is always some word or expression on any which the mind can stay in pigiarne sense ... there is a word that strikes you most of the other ..."
VI. Giussani, the Hour Media, is struck by part of the psalm which says, "Happy and faithful to his teachings and seek him with all my heart"
A. Blessed means happy: a soul different from the way everyone lives
B. His teachings are the order of reality
C. "Blessed is he who is faithful" means those who adhere to things like of course, that is, originally, that is divinely set
D. blessed are those who try with all my heart this teaching, the meaning of things
E. "Turn away my eyes from looking in vain, give me life in your way"
1. vanities: the ephemeral and therefore misleading things
2. live on your way: make me more faithful to things as you did
VII. meditations that will A.
correspond to these two questions
B. want to be a help to the joy of our lives (this will also be a symptom of the rightness of our way to follow)
2. The dynamics faith (p. 37)
I. faith
A. is a method of knowing the reason
B. an indirect method of knowledge because it is mediated by the fact that the reason relies on a witness
C. is the most important of all the methods of the reason why the man committed all
"much more evidence is based on the senses is more than the science that is based on analysis and dialectic ... to trust ... must engage the whole person of their loyalty, should be applied observation gaps, it must involve a certain dialectic should be a sincerity of heart, must love the truth stronger than the dislike ... we need a love for truth ... is any person who is committed ... "D.
is the most decent, most valuable, because the development of co-existence as the existence of the company, a small company such as family or society as a whole could not exist without the faith
"If all we do not fidassimo each other what would happen? In fact, if lacking the naturalness of these things go around with knives, guns, no one can trust more than anything, "
E. coexistence, history and culture are all based on this method: the method of faith
"Culture is the development of knowledge, but if you develop the knowledge, trusting that the discovery will be given by those above you, add your discovery, and those who come after you, trusting what you give him, he adds his discovery "
II. the biggest surprise is to hear of the faith as the most important aspect in ' A.
use of reason because it is based on coexistence, history, culture B.
but first because this method involves the commitment of the whole person
The credibility of the witness (p. 39)
I. the only real problem is this: When a witness can be trusted? A.
you can trust unreasonably or reasonably, fairly or unfairly
B. is right to trust a person when they are sure
1. know what he says
2. and I do not want to cheat
II. when one reaches the certainty about a person, then logically must trust
"To achieve this certainty, if you had studied the School of Community, you will remember the third premise, which speaks of morality. If one achieves this is moral certainty, unless one is is moral certainty it never reaches, or reaches the certainty so unreasonable, trust those who should not be trusted. "
III. trust is a problem of consistency with evidence of reason
A. reached directly
B. or indirectly, through the witness, either immediately or after a cohabitation
"For example: get in the train, you never know who is in train, there are three persons in one compartment and you shut up, shut up and watch your wallet. Then they start talking and realize that there are three good people, three persons of the people, good, and you trust and say, 'I'm going away for a moment and leave there your package with the money. And in fact, go back and find it ... because there was no stop! "
The beginning of a new fact in the world (p. 42)
I know Christ through the method of faith (Christ In fact, I do not know directly, or for evidence or for analysis of the experience)
A. The problem of faith came into the world as a method of reasoning applied above to something reasonable, unthinkable, inconceivable
"John the Baptist saw a man go away and suddenly illuminated by the spirit ... and he cried out:" Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world '... that two were there they saw the man to whom he held out his hand and then have fallen away and they too have followed, stalked this man ... that guy you felt stalked, he turned back. "What do you want?" Master where do you live? "Come and see." And so those two have been talking all afternoon hearing, seeing him speak, because they did not understand anything about what was said, but the way in which he said was so persuasive, it was so obvious that the man was telling the truth ... They went away and the first person who found they said: "We have found the Messiah", repeating a word they did not understand its real meaning, but, since it is already well into the ear of the people, have repeated his words ".
B. certainty of faith, every miracle, in partnership gets bigger up to constitute the foundation of life
" The second chapter of John's Gospel ends by saying: "In the face of this miracle, believed in him his disciples' was the miracle of changing water into wine. But how, they have already believed in the previous chapter? And in fact this is a refrain that goes on in Gospel: When there is a big miracle, here's the chorus again: "His disciples believed in him." Quite rightly this repetition is not only useless, but it confirms the truth of what you are saying, what the Gospel says, because the game is deepening the confidence in us. "
II. The first characteristic of the Christian faith is drawn from a fact, a fact that has the form of a meeting
III. The second characteristic is the uniqueness of the fact.
A. An exceptional presence when something is the criterion by which men live and judge all at '"elementary experience" to the deepest needs of the heart, then it is exceptional
"Finding an exceptional man is to find a man who makes a match with what you want, with the need for justice, truth, happiness, love ... that would be a natural thing, but it never happens, is impossible, it is unimaginable. "
B. outstanding amounts to divine, because God is the answer to the heart
IV. The third characteristic of the Christian faith is the wonder in front of the exceptional nature of the Presence, the wonder is always a question, at least
secret "by the fact that apart from faith in Christ, the meeting from which the faith of John and Andrea - giving them an impression quite exceptional, because the present of some superhuman thing, never thought unimaginable - he raised them in astonishment, "A.
episode of the healing of the paralytic (Matthew 9, 2-7, Mark 2, 1-12, Luke 5, 18-26) the
B. calming the storm (Matthew 8, 23-27, Mark 4, 37-41)
V. amazement is always a question, at least secret, so the fourth factor of the Christian faith is the question: "Who is this?"
" Here is the problem of faith, the answer is the answer to the question of faith: one says yes and another no "
A. Jesus appears in all circumstances be greater than any one else, and there is something in him, a "mystery" B.
by the exceptionality of Jesus, the question arises "Who is he? ", the application shows that what he really is you can not just say
C. different answers to the question depends on the commitment with him, from the systematic co-existence with him (a case of moral certainty)
on the method of moral certitude: cf. L. Giussani, The Religious Sense, in the journey of faith, Signatures Gold, Rizzoli, Milan, 2007, pp. 31-36; L. Giussani, the origin of the Christian claim in the itinerary of faith, gold Signatures, Rizzoli, Milan, 2007, pp. 248-251
1. the crowd after the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, he wants to make him king (John 6, 5-15)
2. the Jews, the Pharisees (the intellectuals, journalists), when Jesus says that will give his flesh to eat and his blood to drink, say it's crazy (John, 6, 48-58)
3. all abandon him, only the disciples remain: on the basis of living with Jesus, while not understanding, they had to trust his word (John 6.59-69)
"Then Peter - and this is the point that sums up, as I said before All this drama instead of Christ and the rise of faith in the world, this is the time of incurrence of faith in Christ in the world and will last until the end of the world - Peter, Simon Peter, with his usual impetuosity said: "Master, we also do not understand what you say, but if we go away from you, where do we go? You have the words to explain life. It is impossible find someone like you. If you can not believe you, I can not believe my eyes, I can not believe in anything. " It is the great, real, real alternative: either nothing where everything ends up ... or that man is right, what is said to be "
VI. fifth and final characteristic of the faith: the responsibility before the fact, the answer A.
the supreme nature of the human, especially when man stands in front of his destiny, is the freedom
"Faced with this where everything is so clear -" If I do not believe you can not believe my eyes, "this is the substance of the position of St. Peter - to meet demand "Who is this man?" and opposite the answer that Peter gave, and one can say yes or no: to adhere to what Peter says, or go away as they went all the others. "
B. the only rational thing is yes, because the reality it is proposed that corresponds to the nature of our hearts, the thirst for happiness, the nature of our ego, the need for truth, any more than our image
C. No. does not arise from reason but from a scandal
1. scandal , which means they stumble, it is a form of lying called preconception
2. Christ is contrary to that in which one places his hope (in vain, because there is no hope that happens then)
... having said that, cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth." The dead man came out with their feet and hands wrapped in bandages and his face covered with a shroud. Jesus said unto them, Loose him and let him go. " Many of the Jews who came to Mary, when they saw what they did, believed in Him But some ran to the Pharisees in Jerusalem (John 11.38-48) ... Many of the Jews believed in him and ran some to accuse him: the same great event, the meeting was exceptional in many turns in some became no. There is no reason not say 'is an illusion "... no, no, no, I hastened to accuse him: no always arises from the bias, the fact that Jesus became a scandal, an impediment to what you want. "
Faith - Assembly (p. 58)
I. to make the assembly ask questions
A. reporting things that they felt
B. explaining the feelings that you have tried
II. this will avoid two things
A. I understand that it reads
B. the artifice of the abstract (the abstract talk, which is almost equal to prattle on)
C. the words we say, we have learned or heard from Christ, either directly or through the Church, have to do with what we live our lives, turn to the heart, which is the proper place of reason
"The reason lies in otherwise the heart and a kite, the kite as it flies in pastures on ... " The kite
Giovanni Pascoli
Is there anything new under the sun, even in ancient
I live elsewhere, and I feel
which are born around the violets.
Son born in the forests of the Capuchin convent
among the dead leaves of oak
the strain that stirs the wind.
You breathe a gentle air that melts
the hard clods, and visit the churches
country, the thresholds have ch'erbose:
air of another place and another month of
and the other life: celestine
air that can withstand a lot of white wings suspended ...
yes, kites! E '
this morning that there is a school. We left
row between the hedges of bramble and albaspina.
The hedges were bare, steep, but there was still some
autumn bouquet
red berries, and some spring flowers
white and bare branches
jumped the robin, and the lizard
showed the little head between the leaves of bitter pit.
Now we are stuck: we face in windy
Urbino: Each sends a cliff
his comet through the sky blue. And here
waves, danger, hits, rush,
back, takes the wind slowly
here between a long scream of children s'inalza.
S'inalza, and steal the wire from the hand
like a flower on the stem escape
thin, and go away to flourish.
S'inalza; and feet trembling and breathless boy
baby's chest and eager pupil
and face and the heart, brings everything in the sky.
Higher, higher: already as a shining
up there, up there ... But here is a breath
the bias, here is a high scream ... - Who screams?
They are the voices of my room:
know all of a sudden,
a gentle, acute, a veiled ...
One by one we all deem
and my teammates! And you, yes, that drop on the humerus
mute the pallor of his face.
Yes, I said the prayers over you,
and wept: and yet, happy that you did not see the wind
fall that the kites!
You were all white, I remember:
only had the red in the knees,
for that we pray on the floor.
Oh! glad that you closed your eyes
convinced, pressing on the heart
the most expensive toys of your loved ones!
Oh! Gently, I know well, you die
clutching his chest childhood,
as the white petals a flower
still in his mouth! Or dead boy,
too soon to be under the sod where
peaceful sleep and insole ...
Better come panting, bright, soft
of sweat, as after a joyous
race race to climb a hill!
better come with the blond head, and cold
then lay on the pillow
you combed co 'beautiful hair wave your mother ...
slowly so as not to hurt you.
III. is important to study memory
"Studying in memory means empathize, to make part of himself, part of his great experience and greatly human blood and expressed as a beauty unknown to us, it means to participate"
IV. the difference between the exceptional and exciting
A. exceptional
1. is the experience of a match that you meet the needs of your heart
"... a match an exception to the usual relations. But how much is outstanding, the more unthinkable and makes you stay full of wonder: is the amazement of truth, Veritatis Splendor, the splendor of truth that makes you full of wonder ... "
2. the uniqueness is something that there is no emotion: the verdict, the comparison between the criteria of our hearts and reality in which you encounter the thrill
B. 1. is the psychological reaction to something that matches
2. is something that happens those who try
See the correspondence is a trial that compares the reality in which you encounter and generates an emotion, a reaction that is psychological or mental, with the demands of the heart, happiness, truth, beauty, goodness A.
the criteria, requirements
1.
2 are always clear. indicate the relationship with destiny, the relationship with God
B. the jury is to apply the criteria to the object that you create an emotion
"What is Feedback? You're in love, you love with the secretary, as can happen to many, as, especially now, it happens to everyone: this corresponds to the plan that God has on your life and, therefore, corresponds to the way of your happiness or not? Let's see: you're married, so you have a child, so you leave your wife, your daughter betrays the task that God has given you, So you are no longer on the road to happiness. And although happiness to you always run off with his secretary, although it seems more happiness than you, you otherwise, brings you the opposite: you're crazy. "
C. should be judged the emotion: the excitement built as a criterion of action, without question is the reason given for committing all the mistakes that men do in this D.
world if you go against the demands of the heart, go against God's plan, the way to go against fate, against thy life
"The path destiny is not described, let alone that the poor wretch saved from falling had for the secretary, but the fact of being faithful to his wife and his child, that the vocation to the task God had given him. It would be a great sacrifice, would be expected to sacrifice for the man slicing the need to escape with a secretary to be with his wife and child. It is a sacrifice to death ... must be done to death, because "what is true if you take anything you want and about yourself?" Jesus said .. is the Gospel that says this: "Who wants his life will lose it," who is attached to his motion, his way of feeling, you lose. "
VI. What does it mean that I say yes to Christ implies totality of my person? A.
to see Christ in all things, so that it becomes habit, habit, perceiving all things in the presence of the mystery that has become a man of flesh and bones so the presence of Christ, we must make a long way: this is starting
B. the beginning is to ask, in the morning, thinking as often as possible during the day to Christ
"What it means to think of often? Think of it: for example, imagine you are like John Andrew in front of the man who speaks, or judging you got to judge, and behavior of others, because God has become a presence, which is in you, which is present at all and no one knows. And I think that is the Mago no one knows. And this with the mature in time makes everything. "
1. must recite the Angelus when you wake up because it reminds the point where it all started
"You are right the Angelus:" I happen according to your word ' in dealings with all men at work, in relation to all the people I see on the trams or in the street, the relationship with things, with the rain or sun dried too hot ... need to ask. "
C. we approach this" other world "we live by, so we are men, the source of happiness, peace, attractiveness and creativity
D. God has led us in front of the threshold of this world: must cross this boundary and enter to live is to enter into this real world
... Things get a hundred times more beautiful. So, the girl you love is made of another, is made of Christ - "Everything about him is" - the mountains, the body of this girl is made of one other reason alone would be nothing, nothing. "
E. there is a human help: the company made up of people like you try to call
... that company is the only one truly human, fully human, that exists in the world. The rest of the world as a great human being healed wound that cries, that requires a great loneliness of being caught in a light, a protection that comes from others like themselves. Then the fellow gets really born between himself and another to strangers like us affection greater than that which has for the father and mother, until the emotion. Because the trial match experience to identify with the emotion ... more larger than what you have for your father and your mother ... do not forget that your father and your mother, but because you learn to understand the importance of your father and your mother is that they have somehow cooperated in this way - for example you come by - so that if they were (pardon the assumption), two criminals, the years with your classmates. Other "
VII.
A. Approval of the correspondence can never coincide with the decline of your duty: your job, you do it all
B. is something that creeps while working, over time become habitual
" How to take I see the glass to drink out of the corner of the eye right there, imposing, Charles, as Christ becomes a presence as in the corner of my eye, a continuous presence ... but over time ".
C. correspondence should be total, the whole challenge, or is not
... no one will remember, no one, only have it in your father and your mother. When a man becomes a woman's father and mother are in - without his notice, without even thinking about it - have in the passion for the destiny of the child who gives life: do not realize it either, but there were inside. So much so that if their son or daughter choose a path that is contrary to those that provide them, they give only dealing with one thing, the happiness of the child. So much so that if they see that their child is happy, the first resist, resist, resist, but then at some point give way: when you give a good party! "
VIII. amazement, the profound question that is the hallmark of faith
A. amazement before the application is not
B. you can ask a question if you are not attracted to: there is something that attracts you, then you tend.
Tension means asking "Giovanni Andrea did not know him, never knew. The go back in fear and are there all afternoon to see him speak, because they do not even understand properly what they say ... Refer always there: in Andrea and John, saw the man speak - and how much more he talked, the more this happened - it was a natural desire to know, to be with him, to hear him speak again. And this desire was a question, it was like a question, they came to the question: "Make us to be with you, keep talking, tell us forever." So much so that at some point in the synagogue of Capernaum, Simon said it clearly with the phrase that remains for the whole story: "If we go away from you, where are we going? You have the words that explain life '. "
IX.
A. Faith and meeting the meeting the tool, the phenomenon by which you approach the faith
B. faith is to recognize that in this world and in history the world God made flesh, made man, that factor made it a factor in history, a factor of present reality
"Faith is this. When Jesus said to the father of the epileptic," If you believe your child can be saved, "he replied with the most beautiful phrase which could have replied:" I believe, Lord, help my unbelief " At the same time affirming its will to believe, evidence that there were reasons to believe, and the humiliation of his weakness. And Jesus before these things ... it was over! "
C. the way in which faith is born is a reasonable match between consciousness - intelligence, sensitivity and affection - man and an exceptional human presence
"... the great Presence reveals itself as a source of uniqueness, of a magnitude of effectiveness that was totally unexpected. So the man says what he told the apostles: "If we do not believe in this man, we can not even believe our eyes," "X
known method
A must read, read, talk, talk again, ten a hundred times because these things become mens, measuring all mentality B.
need to redo the way, to understand the links, go over the relationship between word and word, so it is clear
C. Otherwise we remain slaves to the mentality
D. reciting the Angelus in the morning is like a sword and make a crack in the wall of the common mind and expand every day
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