XXVI Pilgrimage. The message from Fr Giussani

In Our Lady, the destiny of every human life finds its beginning and its fulfillment: offering.
Beginning, because Our Lady is the consciousness Christ had of the world.
Fulfillment, because offering to God what we do is the pain of existence. Offering all one’s being, everything that seems to spring forth from nothingness, to the Mystery of God. What every day would be limitation for us is destined to become as great as the gaze of Our Lady. Mary understood that the content of every human condition develops and brings about the plan of an Other: not the plan of our own heart, but of God’s heart.
This is the Mystery intrinsic in all the things that God creates, such that it makes us share in the greatness and beauty of His world, without boundaries and without evil.
In this way, everything that is born becomes a being of grace even when events are toilsome. Everything is born and blooms in a version of grace. So that in the cross up to the resurrection of Christ everything becomes grace, i.e., salvation, peace, and gladness.
The knowledge of this joyous positivity of everything is what has to be rediscovered by you, and then also the efforts you make to reach each goal will flow with torrents of grace. You will certainly have no lack of pains, like life, but you will live life as a journey; even when the walk is exhausting, it will be the discovery of a truly great good (see Dante’s prayer to Mary).

Follow those who honor Christ, who love His Mother.
Offer to Her true justice as her imitation: this is the road to Holiness.