Christ loved and understood the man
would be futile to attempt contain the rich life of John Paul II in a newspaper article. No However, I think, in the title of these considerations, we condense the coordinates that guided his life that led him to sail the world, to be present in international organizations concerned about the disinherited of this world, to pray with people different religions in Assisi, to live with passion ecumenism, to apologize, no one did so, on behalf of the Church of all times, to be a fascinating old youth, to die to be the most mourned the dead.
a list could be endless, but leave my proposal. He opened his pontificate with a few words were beamed around the world who knows what fortune but Christians began to build safer in times of uncertainty. And if we still we mask the fad may be more loyal remembering those phrases: "Be not afraid! Open wide the doors to Christ!"
"Open the borders of the states to its saving power, economic and political systems, the vast fields of culture, civilization, development. Do not be afraid! Christ knows what is in man. Only He knows. " Twenty years later, a crowd fired live or via media, between awe and fearful for the orphans, comforted by his legacy and turned into a certainty cry Holy Now
John Paul II was a lover of Christ , seeing God made man who loves and understands the man. How often repeated phrases that he had helped develop in the Council: that man is the only creature that God willed for itself, the mystery of man becomes clear only in the mystery of the Incarnate Word, in a sense, to be man, God is incarnate in every man. There is a higher concept of human beings, or the possibilities of their work, research, high value of reason, freedom, of all human rights.
In his first encyclical - "Redemptor Hominis" - Christ and the man shake hands. "Church," he wrote, can not abandon man, whose fate, ie the election, calling, birth and death, salvation or perdition, is so closely and inextricably linked to Christ. " Every man, every man, not an abstract and diffuse humanity in the interest of Christ, explained in Christ and, therefore, every person matters greatly to the Church, which is to be Christ in history. His latest encyclical came to Christ in the Eucharist, anchoring and nourishment of mankind.
on countless occasions used this expression: "the truth about man, that if we had understood and been better, maybe we would have escaped the apocalypse now countless wars, injustices done to standard, lies and greed ruin our economies, the hunger for opulence many do not know how many ... However, the Berlin Wall fell, stopped many dictatorships, became more justice to the Holocaust and the martyrs of Marxism, we were more aware of good ecology, cleared struggles between faith and science ...
But what Christian behavior result of the new life brought by Jesus? Does this brief list does not show the failure of Christ? No. Christ created truly free men. And that man has progressed in many ways-even religious-, still lives in too many cases as if that freedom was not enjoying life more, rather than being the effort to seek truth and goodness, that make us ourselves true and good, as predicted by the current Pope in Cologne.
The beatification of John Paul II is a special occasion to recover the truth about man, including the risk that God has raced with our freedom. That truth is that the human person is the image God, who has fallen, but has been redeemed, which is inclined to sin, but lives in continual aspiration to truth, goodness, beauty, justice, love, and also reads "Redemptor Hominis. "
The great danger of man is away from that image of the Creator in search of a futile and suicidal autonomy Him. As cardinal of Krakow, the Pope said Grande, lost the Creator, the creature vanishes. "He who hears you, hears me," said Jesus. Do not listen to Christ in their pastors, the Pope and the bishops with him, presumptuous to build faith and men in our measurement. In my opinion therein lies the source of many evils, though some truly understood as liberation. Before the release of private property, and now sexual freedom. The two with the truth and the two with his error.
This first of May is a great time for reflection of statesmen and people, clergy and faithful, Christ knows what is in man. Only He knows.
