June 24, 2024, 8:00 pm
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CATANIA – “The goal: my personal sanctification. That is, my life in Christ the Lord and in Him and through Him in the most blessed Trinity of the heavenly Father, of the Word, splendor of his glory and of the Spirit of fire and love. Everything else is half, nothing but half. In particular, the only means is political life and the apostolate itself that I claim to exercise in and outside of it. Political life and the apostolate are the means and the concrete dimension – at least for now and until a new sign of the Lord’s will – of my progress towards the end”.
AND Giuseppe Dossetti to write. That is, the member of the Constituent Assembly who, even before that, had participated in the Resistance, and then definitively retired in prayer in that Monteveglio, in Emilia.
A figure in many ways mythical, owner of a singular approach to politics because it is detached. In fact, he left his militancy in the institutions and in the DC when he considered that his moral mission was exhausted.
The Nyssa Rocco Gumina he is a scholar of the difficult relationship between Christianity and politics. The latest effort is dedicated to one of the liveliest minds of the Italian twentieth century. For the Sicilians of Giacobbe’s Well he wrote, in fact, Giuseppe Dossetti: between intention and end. The years of political commitment (1943-1958).
Why study Dossetti’s contribution today? “We are witnessing – we read – the increasingly evident emergence of an instability that probably has no equal in national history. It would be useless to say that if there were men like Dossetti the political situation would be better. It is up to us to read between the lines of Dossetti’s story to understand that it has not always been like this and that an alternative is possible”.
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June 24, 2024, 8:00 pm
