Final appeal from the President of Meeting Foundation Emilia Guarnieri for the cause of persecuted christians all over the world<\/p>\n
Meeting for Friendship Among People 34 edition opened this morning with the Holy Mass chaired by Francesco Lambiasi, Rimini\u2019s bishop, and co-celebrated by don Stefano Alberto and don Alberto Battaglia. Auditorium D5 was packed, as the near D3 room in audio-visual connection.
\nBefore the start of the celebration, president of Meeting Foundation Emilia Guarnieri read the message sent by Pope Francis to the Meeting by cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. The topic of the Human Person: a State of Emergency, Bertone writes, capture \u201cthe urgency of evangelization\u201d lying in the heart of the Holy Father. In our world too, increasingly globalized and without stables points of reference, the Church looks for the human person. \u201cThe human person \u2013 is the Pope\u2019s thought \u2013 is the Church\u2019s way, because it is the way walked through by God Himself\u201d, till the peak of Incarnation. The human person, \u201cmistery of freedom and grace, of poverty and greatness, not reducible to any image that the secular power could try to impose\u201d is at the centre of Church mission. There where \u201ceconomic, political and media power tries to manipulate people, to induce desires, to erase the most precious thing human person has, the relationship with God\u201d it is necessary to \u201creturn the human person to himself, to his high dignity, to say strongly that only in the relationship with God he can reach his real stature\u201d. The Church safeguards \u201cthe most authentic possibility of human person\u2019s fulfillment, anytime and anywhere\u201d. A precious treasure that everyone, consciously or not, is looking for. Its mission then is to serve the human person going out to look for him, \u201cby imitating the divine Master which has left his sky to become a man and be near to everyone\u201d. Only remaining itself the Church may achieve this path: coming back urgently to Christ, in order to learn from Him \u201cthe truth about ourselves and the world\u201d.
\nPope Francis wishes for Meeting days able to\u201d light up the hearts of participants with a fire feeding and sustaining their Gospel\u2019s witness in the world\u201d. An invitation echoed by Monsignor Lambiasi\u2019s homily that was centered on Jesus\u2019 fervent desire that the fire of the Spirit doesn\u2019t dampen in our days: \u201cI have come to bring fire upon the earth and how I wish it were already kindled\u201d (Lc 12,49). Among time marks, nearby the faith\u2019s cooling down under a sated and bored living, one can glimpse a new Spirit\u2019s blow which is reawakening the secular world, \u201ca giant asleep\u201d. Towards the Christ, to his ardent passion for the human person, one can\u2019t remain aloof. It\u2019s unavoidable to take a stance: getting far or letting oneself succumb to the flame of his love. The price for the mission, monsignor Lambiasi remembers, is going after Him radically\u201d.
\nWonderful enrichment of the liturgical celebration, the songs performed by the choir of Communion and Liberation in Rimini were directed by Anastasia Gemmani: contemplation of the mystery of the human heart, praise of the tenderness of Christ and the beauty of Mary, songs of fighting and manly call to battle (\u201cEstote fortes\u201d by Luca Marenzio). On the screen, such as altarpieces, flow sweet and virile representations of the face of Christ, the true image of man’s face.
\nAt the end of Mass, the president of the Foundation Meeting for friendship among peoples Emilia Guarnieri launches an appeal on behalf of persecuted Christians around the world. “It is the beating heart of the Meeting with the whole Church for the brothers persecuted for the faith.” Guarnieri at the beginning of this new edition invites everyone to sign the initiative created by the cry of Pope Francis, “which aims to ask the national institutions and international bodies to do everything possible to defend, protect and guarantee the existence of Christians in the world and recognize their basic right to search for truth and the testimony, preventing any restriction of their freedom of expression and association. ”
\nAn appeal fully in line with the title of the 2013 “Emergency man” and conforms to the message of Pope Francis, who at this time of economic crisis and human wants to bring man to his true worth stressing the need for a new evangelization. Why, the Pope says, “The man remains a mystery, irreducible to any image that it is formed in society and the world power seeks to impose.”
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