Don Guanella sang God, man and nature
Considerations on the Encyclical «Laudato si'»
by Mario Carrera
«The creatures of this world cannot be considered a possession without an owner: “They are yours, Lord, lover of life” (Wis 11,26). This leads to the belief - wrote Pope Francis in the encyclical “Laudato si'” - that, having been created by the same Father, all of us beings in the universe are united by invisible bonds and form a sort of universal family, a sublime communion that it pushes us to a sacred, loving and humble respect."
This "humble respect" was in the DNA of Don Guanella's sanctity; for him everything was sacred: from people to this "room without walls", which is our world. Nothing in this world is indifferent to us and for Don Guanella everything was interesting and worthy of attention. Pope Francis says: «The whole material universe is a language of God's love, of his boundless affection for us. Soil, water, mountains, everything is a caress of God.
The family: human trinity, communion of love
The "Gaudium et Spes"
by Mother Anna Maria Cánopi, osb
After having considered from various aspects the very high dignity of the human person, created in the image and likeness of God, the Council Fathers dedicate themselves in the second part of the Gaudium et Spes constitution to considering some urgent contemporary problems: the family, culture, life social, economic and political, peace. Even though fifty years have passed since the close of the Council, these problems continue to remain "current", indeed, their urgency in some cases becomes more pressing today. These are problems of such scope and complexity that it is certainly not possible to deal with them in the short space of an article, nor, on the other hand, would I have the necessary expertise for this purpose.
On the roads of the gospel in the light of hope for a cry of prophecy
A year dedicated to the consecrated life called to conversion
In November last year, the Holy Father Francis, in a meeting with the superior generals of the religious, announced the desire to dedicate 2015 to reflection and prayer of praise to God for the light given by the Spirit in the conciliar decree Perfectae caritatis on the renewal of life religious and to ask for additional generosity from the religious themselves on the fiftieth anniversary of its promulgation.