{"id":246649,"date":"2024-01-25T17:50:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meetingrimini.org\/?p=246649"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:55:03","slug":"jesus-carrascosa-a-life-changing-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meetingrimini.org\/en\/jesus-carrascosa-a-life-changing-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Jes\u00fas Carrascosa, a life-changing encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cIt is with deep gratitude,\u201d said Bernhard Scholz, president of the Meeting<\/strong>, \u201cthat we remember our dear friend Jes\u00fas Carrascosa<\/strong>. His unwavering faith and irresistible friendship have always been a source of encouragement and support for the experience of the Meeting. His extraordinary friendliness and ability to create relationships with and between the most diverse people was an immense gift to all of us. Carras, as he was called by his friends, left in the Meeting the trace of a desire for commitment that was as serene as it was responsible for a communion that becomes leaven for a more human and truer world.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a sign of our gratitude, we publish his testimony at the 2001 Meeting<\/strong>. \u201cSince 1975, when my wife and I met Fr. Giussani...\u201d In this way on that occasion Carrascosa, introducing a conference at the Meeting, began his story of the encounter that changed his life, expanding it to the ends of the world.<\/p>\n

As he himself says, \u201can absolutely unimaginable experience, because I had never seen \u00a0a Christianity that had anything to do<\/strong> with my life, with my reason, that allowed me to talk to anyone, to discuss with anyone, with a reasonableness and reasons that allowed me to make certain statements with dignity as a man.\u201d<\/p><\/div>