{"id":25073,"date":"2009-11-11T16:16:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T20:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/keeping-the-centrality-of-chri\/"},"modified":"2009-11-11T16:16:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T20:16:33","slug":"keeping-the-centrality-of-chri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/keeping-the-centrality-of-chri\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the centrality of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Monsignor Giussani, with his fearless and unfailing<br \/>\nfaith, knew that, even in this situation, Christ, the encounter with Him,<br \/>\nremains central, <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">because whoever does not give God, gives too little, and<br \/>\nwhoever does not give God, whoever does not make people find God in the Fact of<br \/>\nChrist, does not build, but destroys, because he gets human activity lost in<br \/>\nideological and false dogmatisms<\/span>. Fr Giussani <b>kept the centrality of Christ<\/b><br \/>\nand, exactly in this way, with social works, with necessary service, he helped mankind<br \/>\nin this difficult world, where the responsibility of Christians for the poor in<br \/>\nthe world is enormous and urgent.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Garamond, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">(Pope Benedict XVI, Funeral Homily for Msgr Luigi Giussani, 24 February 2005, Milan)<\/span><!--EndFragment--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monsignor Giussani, with his fearless and unfailing faith, knew that, even in this situation, Christ, the encounter with Him, remains central, because whoever does not give God, gives too little, and whoever does not give God, whoever does not make people find God in the Fact of Christ, does not build, but destroys, because he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/keeping-the-centrality-of-chri\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keeping the centrality of Christ<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[32097],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}