For the first time at the Meeting Monsignor Nunzio Galantino, general secretary of Cei<\/p>\n
It took place today at 11.15 a.m. in Sala Eni B1 at the Meeting the conference The person and the sense of limit in cooperation with the National service of Cei por the cultural project, with the participation of Monsignor Nunzio Galantino, general secretary of Cei. Davide Perillo, director of Tracce, has introduced the event: \u201cWe are not talking about politics, rather about what is the origin of politics: the person, his liberty (which comes primarily) and the urge to know oneself\u201d. \u201cI thank for the invitation and the opportunity to share some reflections I have made since I used to teach anthropology. The theme of a never satisfied heart \u2013 which often goes through a radical lack \u2013 brings me back to that inextinguishable desire described by Bernardo of Chiaravalle\u201d. By these words Galantino introduces his lecture that starts the argumentation by quite clear questions. Why do men\u2019s paths are marked so deeply by lack? Does the experience of limit crush, or does it stand for a growth? How can an honest employment with limit bring to a change? \u201cThese questions, as how they\u2019re given, lay in a post-philosophical context less and less attentive to the person\u201d explains the lecturer, \u201cand this hails from a radical anthropological alteration that has focused individual freedom as a value in itself\u201d. Monsignor Galantino quotes other authors dear to him such as Emmanuel Mounier and Dietrich Bonhoeffer regarding to this point: \u201cMen are not absolute liberty, but rather incarnate liberty. Men are quest for truth, God, and responsibility\u201d. That relativism which permeates our current mentality doesn\u2019t accept the founding limit in men\u2019s nature; and, if the limit is not accepted, a man\u2019s life can become a fiction. Men are essentially created to think big; but, if they don\u2019t accept the limit, they run into pretension. \u201cIt is not about a fruitless praise for the limit, but to humanity instead\u201d. Yet, does the anthropology of limit weaken the ideal? Does the acceptance of limit facilitates a certain laxity? \u201cWithout ideals, life becomes meaningless for men. There is also an ideal of perfection to be rejected too \u2013 the perfection not to realize oneself, to keep step with one\u2019s positive awareness of limit. The frontier here is becoming more human. In these terms, the limit is a result of carelessness, instead of an anthropological dimension. Which future can take shape then for society, for the Church and the individuals? \u201cDevelopment and perfection\u201d answers the Cei secretary \u201care not synonyms. Which implies that those who experience some forms of difficulty must be integrated rather than rejected; that those who are at the fringes of development get involved and employed in their potentialities\u201d. For the Church, the church communities and the associations are already admirable signs of God\u2019s presence and His charity. A Church that makes a resource out of its limit becomes a Church more and more evangelist \u2013 it bends to the least. Finally, it\u2019s the life of the single that has to be revised and modernized by a stronger awareness of one\u2019s limit\u201d. An anthropology of the limit can\u2019t be given by a glorification of the limit in itself \u2013 rather of the human beings. Only when one\u2019s life is spent in the light of these considerations it keeps being fascinated by the frontiers, endorsing the invocation \u201cYou made us for You, my Lord, and our hearts can\u2019t be quiet but in Your rest\u201d.
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