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And existence becomes an immense certainty<\/p><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\u201c<\/span>And existence becomes an immense certainty<\/strong>\u201d is the title that we chose for the XXXII edition of the Meeting. It stems from a simple, but at the same time dramatic observation: nowadays, in the most common mentality, in the consciousness with which each one of us faces the challenges and hardships of our life, it seems that it is not possible to have true certainty any more. It is here, at the bottom of our own being, that the hidden reason of many \u201ccrises\u201d of our times reveals itself: such crises not only express the objection to or the loss of certainties that were considered acquired \u2013 in politics as well as in economics, in science as well as in ethics, in culture as well as in society \u2013 the same way it often happened during other historical times. What is at stake today, the era characterized by the great shadow of nihilism, is something more radical, therefore also the challenge that it sends us is more radical: human beings are not capable of certainty anymore; rather, each certainty is of our own making, and, finally, just a great illusion.<\/span>
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\nWhen we think about the meaning of our existence, aren\u2019t we all tempted, as children of our time, to believe that our origin and our destiny are at the mercy of luck, and that after all we have no power against the uncontrollable forces of a blind fate and of a meaningless fortuitousness? Yet, most of the \u201cmodern\u201d thought, \u2013 according to which man is the only, true maker of his own destiny, without any need to refer to a greater meaning, \u2013 had claimed to provide a \u201cscientific\u201d and \u201cpolitical\u201d strategy that would govern the uncertainties of living, the mortal risk of solitude and meaninglessness, source of resentment and violence. <\/span>
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\nThe only certainties still in our possession \u2013 we believe \u2013 are those produced by the technological control of the world. Anything else, values and emotions, feelings and opinions, belong to relativism. But we acknowledge more and more that reality, both at a natural level and at a social level, is much less governable than what we think, and most of all we discover that the existence of the I gets weaker and weaker in its reasons. The perception that \u201cour powerlessness is incurable,\u201d wrote the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, \u201cmakes us feel an even more dreadful and devastating uncertainty than in the past.\u201d The whole game of existence is played here, in the certainty or uncertainty regarding the reason why each one of us is in this world.<\/span>
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\nThe Meeting will try to accept this challenge of our times, reopening a game that many had already declared over. And, according to its style, it will do it not in virtue of a more shrewd cultural and political analysis, but starting from the experience in progress of people who are not satisfied with a concept of their own existence as destined to nothingness. Men and women who don\u2019t censor the weight of uncertainty, nor escape the work that it demands, but who live it as the evident sign that we are not the masters of ourselves, on the contrary we are in relationship with something Else which continues to reach us in our life.<\/span>
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\nBefore any calculation about our abilities or inabilities, the basic perception of our I is that of a certainty. And not a cheap assurance or a guarantee at our disposal, but a <\/span>certainty<\/em> of belonging: we are <\/span>of<\/em> somebody. Initially we are certain about ourselves, because our mother\u2019s face meets us and she offers us her breast. This is the first perception of life, which afterwards remains as a constant, even though hidden or suffocated. Before any uncertainty there is a certainty: it is a given, an encounter, an invitation.<\/span>
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\nThe Meeting will try to tell and witness this work of the I that starts over from the evidence of an encounter, of all those encounters where the meaning is present in the flesh, for which it is worth living, loving, building, and also suffering. The certainty we are looking for is not an ideology, nor a strategy, nor a psychological persuasion, but it is the certainty that makes us recognize what we already \u201care.\u201d Not so much that the things will be fine as we expect them, but that we ourselves are in relationship with the one Who makes us continuously.<\/span>
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\nThis is why existence, as the Meeting\u2019s title says, <\/span>becomes<\/em> a certainty: as a matter of fact, it is not about knowing ahead of time what will happen to us and in the world, but being available to make ourselves be provoked by what happens, that is, to ask for its meaning and to recognize its reason. And certainty is immense precisely because it is not of our own making, but rather it is the discovery of what reaches us and asks of us each time. This certainty would not exist without our freedom<\/span>
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\nAfter all, also the Meeting is a way to take seriously the invitation we receive every day from the events and encounters that happen: the invitation to respond with all our expectation, always putting at stake our restlessness.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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