The Gratitude of Father Giussani. “May Our Lady watch over you”

On the occasion of John Paul II’s jubilee, Fr Giussani has written this short reflection for our newspaper.

We have got together, small and great, so that the instant of living be truly ours for ever. The capacity to be together, as one, is the greatest prospect for our life: the eternal capacity. We have got together so that the form that we give to what we do may be truly useful, beautiful and sure. This is why our unity is divine, that is to say with Christ. May our Lady protect you as she protected Jesus.
This morning, as I was writing these few lines to our community in Puglia, which is celebrating thirty years of life, it struck me that they express succinctly, but passionately, what the whole movement of Communion and Liberation has learned from the magisterium and missionary energy of John Paul II.
May the faithful wonder that fills everyone’s heart become a communal prayer to Our Lady that the teaching of such a great pontiff might determine the whole expression of our daily life: at home, at work and before the whole world. In humble entreaty, I ask a fatherly blessing for everyone.