Fr. Giussani’s greeting for the 25th anniversary of CL at Recanati

Dearest friends,

I thank you for the faithfulness you have lived to the event that took hold of me many years before, beginning with the encounter with Giacomo Leopardi, the friend of my youth. Reading him introduced me to the discovery of an other Beauty that was to become my whole life.
So the feast of your twenty five years makes me thank the Lord: He has allowed the seed of our history fall also on the land of Recanati, calling you to the same greatness as Leopardi, as if to fulfil the infiniteness of his unhappy heart: to live every instant in the presence of the Mystery, which in the Holy House of Loreto took on a human face and physiognomy so as never to leave us again.
Ask our Lady, the Virgin Mother, to make you live that ecstasy of hope that we wrote to you about, as inexorable fecundity, called to renew in the world, with your own life, the poetry of your and our Leopardi.