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<\/a><\/p>\nThe question of God is also central in our time, in which man is Planned from this perspective is the international event of these days. On one hand, in He is the Son of God, the Living who enters into the life Directed to these objectives are the numerous In a cultural and The experiences of the past, although not remote To you, cardinal, to all those who have contributed to prepare this <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Almost two weeks ago Pope Benedict sent a message to the president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, Angelo Cardinal Bagnasco, who is chairing a meeting where the agenda is talking about God, of all things. Well, it beats talking about bishops, nuns and the environment all the time. This topic interests me not in the … Continue reading God Today: With Him or Without Him Everything Changes<\/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":[7],"tags":[1805,32081,1799],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25156"}],"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=25156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\noften reduced to one dimension, the “horizontal,” considering
\nopenness to the Transcendent as irrelevant for his life. The relationship with
\nGod, instead, is essential for humanity’s journey<\/b><\/span> and, as I have had the
\noccasion to affirm many times, the Church and every Christian<\/b>, in fact, have
\nthe task to make God present in this world, to attempt to open to men access to
\nGod<\/b>.<\/p>\n
\nThe breadth of the approach to the important topic that characterizes the
\nmeeting, will make possible the sketching of a rich and articulated picture of
\nthe question of God, but above all it will be a stimulation for a profound
\nreflection on God’s place in the culture and life of our time.<\/p>\n
\nfact, an attempt is being made to show the different ways that lead to
\naffirming the truth about the existence of God, that God which humanity has
\nalways known in some way, even in the chiaroscuro of his history, and who
\nrevealed himself with the splendor of his face in the covenant with the people
\nof Israel and, beyond that, in every measure and hope, in a full and definitive
\nway, in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n
\nand history of man to illumine him with his grace, with his presence. On the
\nother hand, the desire is precisely to bring to light the essential importance
\nthat God has for us, for our personal and social life, for understanding
\nourselves and the world, for the hope that illumines our way, for the salvation
\nthat awaits us beyond death<\/b>.<\/p>\n
\ninterventions, according to the many points of view which will be the object of
\nstudy and exchange: from philosophical and theological reflection on the
\nwitness of the great religions; from the impulse to God, which finds its
\nexpression in music, literature, the figurative arts, the cinema and
\ntelevision; to the development of the sciences, which attempt to read in depth
\nthe mechanisms of nature, fruit of the intelligent work of God the Creator; from
\nthe analysis of the personal experience of God to the consideration of the
\nsocial and political dynamics of an already globalized world.<\/p>\n
\nspiritual situation such as the one we are living in, where the tendency grows
\nto relegate God to the private sphere, to consider him irrelevant and
\nsuperfluous, or to reject him explicitly, it is my heartfelt hope that this
\nevent might at least contribute to disperse that semi-darkness that makes
\nopenness to God precarious and fearful for the men of our time, though he never
\nceases to knock on our door<\/span>.<\/p>\n
\nto us, teach us that when God disappears from man’s horizon, humanity loses its
\ndirection and runs the risk of taking steps to its own destruction<\/span>. Faith in
\nGod opens man to the horizon of certain hope, which does not disappoint<\/b>; it
\nindicates a solid foundation on which to base life without fear; it calls for
\nabandoning oneself with confidence in the hands of the Love which sustains the
\nworld.<\/p>\n
\ncongress, to the speakers and to all the participants I express my cordial
\ngreeting with the desire for the full success of the initiative. I support the
\nworks with prayer and with my apostolic blessing, propitiator of that light
\nfrom on High, which makes us capable of finding God, our treasure and our hope.<\/p>\n