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"The love of freedom and a welcoming charity born of faith" are the core values that Venice, "City of Beauty," is called to resurrect on the occasion of the Redeemer's Day, with the need to rediscover the deep and fundamental relationship with God that underlies all others. On this basis, the city and the whole society will be able to wisely deal with the most problematic problems of the news. These are the themes of reflection that the Patriarch of Venice Francesco Moraglia offers this year to the Church and the lagoon city during the popular and sincere celebration of the Redeemer (in the photo of Riccardo Roiter spiritual and environmental emblem of the Venetian festival ). Here are some pbadages that the Patriarch will take up again in the homily of the solemn Mbad scheduled for Sunday evening at 19:00 in the Basilica of the Redeemer located on the island of Giudecca in Venice.
"For more than four centuries, the Venetians have pilgrimage to the island of Giudecca to thank the Redeemer and renew their request for protection.With this gesture of faith, we want to engage in social coexistence worthy for all and imbued with the values that have always belonged to Venice and its history: the love of freedom and a welcoming charity born of faith.
Venice is the city of the evangelist Marc and a community that has a deep relationship with God can not live a minimal personal and social ethic.The Redeemer helps us, in the challenges of today, to make wise and at the same time sustainable choices and generous, legal and welcoming.As for the relationship that is very delicate today with immigrants, for the Christian, the principle is true: generosity and legality, sustainable integration, as repeats with force Pope Franço The "yes" and the "no" a priori are not acceptable; our human being is at stake, the human remains, the need to overcome indifference.
Our city must also find answers to the questions that are essential for its future: the excessive flow of visitors, in one territory for the beauty but also for the fragility, and the structural decline of the residents. The questions refer to each other and must be confronted with sound realism and legitimate idealism, without draining their utopias on others and distancing themselves from ideological visions. Recognizing the limits also to any "unlimited" sources of wealth is a choice that a society is called to for the common good, also in relation to future generations.
Venice has always been the gateway to the East and is, par excellence, the city of beauty in which the covenant between God and man is one. expresses in a unique way! Michelangelo, in the chapel of the Sistine Chapel, stopped the moment of the creation of Adam; This divine gesture is also the beginning of the covenant which, in a wonderful way, becomes present in our city where beauty is the fruit of both the work of God and the Lord. work of the man.
The sky, the sea, the lagoon, the summer and winter lights, the mists of autumn reverberated inexpressible sensations in the human soul. Venice is, at the same time, the work of God and man and his beauty exerts an indescribable charm. Our city is this precious box of art that unites with the beautiful, the work of the Creator, and entrusted to us.
Venice is the city of bridges and "being a bridge" is its vocation. Il Bello (painting, sculpture, architecture, music, poetry), the Bene (churches, hospitals, canteens, dormitories), the True (schools, universities, libraries, archives) are bridges thrown to others but especially to the Other. And only in the encounter with Who is Good, Good, and True, is man, finding God first.
God is rediscovered and placed at the center of the life of the individual and the city because God is the guarantor of freedom for all and respect between people, without discrimination, so that nobody Student on top of others. Today, observing the city, we still perceive in our midst the presence of another, a Redeemer capable of satisfying this thirst for infinity – most often unconscious – which devours the postmodern man
gave way to that of the image and the communication; everything is more nuanced, articulate and omnipresent and therefore requires a supplement of humanity and, above all, of the Gospel. But each meeting – worthy of the name – is not a "virtual contact" on the network but a "real dialogue" between people willing to take easy roads, never predictable or mundane. Yes, we must rediscover the value of dialogue, fraternity and acceptance. Especially today. But this supposes to rediscover the value of the encounter with the fatherhood of God, because from here all the other relations flourish. "
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