“Love the Church! In the post-conciliar time, the life of faith, both personal and community, has been animated by formative and pastoral proposals that can and must promote the historical novelty of the Church’s path, indicated by the Council. It is the life of the Church, in fact, that places the baptized person in history and makes him a historical subject.” Mgr. writes it. Lorenzo Leuzzi, bishop of Teramo-Atri, in the letter written in view of the trip to Siena for the offering, by the City of Teramo and its Local Church, of the oil that will burn in the votive lamp of the sanctuary of Santa Caterina. The oil was blessed last night by the Monsignor himself. Leuzzi, during a Eucharistic celebration in the cathedral. “Love for the Church is not a simple experience of aggregation or religious devotion, but is the sign of participation in the construction of the ecclesial community, which is the fullness of the historical existence of the baptized person”, observes the prelate in the letter.
“Serving History! Catherine’s concern for the life of the social community in which she was inserted, lived in the clear distinction between what is ecclesial and what is civil, leads our hearts and our minds to paragraph 31 of the dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium in which the Council summarizes the vocation and mission of the christifideles laici”, highlights the bishop, specifying: “The double belonging of the baptized, to the Church and to society, is the manifestation of the historicity of Christianity which has always accompanied the socio-cultural dynamics of the time in which is inserted and today, in particular, of the change of era that is still waiting to be understood and served”. Only “by combining together, in their existence, love for the Church and service in society, will the baptized be protagonists of a new diakonia in history”.
For Msgr. Leuzzi, “Caterina, a lay woman, is a prophetic testimony for all of us”. Hence the invitation: “With Catherine we learn to walk with the Risen One, confessing her presence in history and building the Church and society.”
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