My first thought goes -- it's obvious -- to your
founder Monsignor Luigi Giussani, to whom many memories tie me, since he had
become a true friend to me. Our last meeting, as Father Carrón mentioned, took
place in Milan Cathedral two years ago, when our beloved Pope John Paul II sent
me to preside at his solemn funeral. Through him the Holy Spirit aroused in the
Church a movement -- yours -- that would witness the beauty of being Christians
in an epoch in which the opinion was spreading that Christianity was something
tiresome and oppressive to live. Father Giussani, then, set himself to reawaken
in the youth the love for Christ, the way, the truth and the life, repeating
that only he is the road toward the realization of the deepest desires of man's
heart; and that Christ saves us not despite our humanity, but through it.
Pope
Benedict XVI, address to Communion and Liberation, March 25, 2007
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