Giuseppe Dossetti, 15 years ago ... from "Signs Adista New" No 119 Attrezzatevi to mixed up of more radical "We live in an epochal crisis. I do not think we are still at the bottom, even in the middle of this crisis. We are like the end of a third world war, which has not been fought, but also that there was in these decades. What is somewhat over, with winners and losers, or those who consider themselves losers and others who consider themselves winners. Peace, or a point of equilibrium has not yet been found, in this total collapse. Think of what happened in Russia. But American democracy, even if won, can not propose anything until To date it has not proposed anything. The mixing of peoples, cultures and situations is much more complex than it was in 1918. And a total remix. Plus there is the great unknown of Islam. And we have no intellectual tools to interpret everything properly. We are exhausted before the cultures. I can not wait to be born a new thought, nor by the secular nor the Christians. We are all buildings, fixed on a present that you try to cobble together somehow, but not with a sense of depth of change. It is not catastrophic, this vision, it is realistic, not pessimistic because I know that the fates of all are in the hands of God's hope not is not. The only cry that I would like to hear now is the cry of those who say: expect surprises even bigger and global attrezzatevi to mixed up of more radical. Do not look for an answer in our generation, we are the only survivors. "
(Giuseppe Dossetti, conversing with the writing of bedlam, published in the dossier of the 15-16 December 1994)
Yes there is the Church, but also if you do not more spiritual ...
"We will live our faith more and more with no props, no principals whatsoever, humanly speaking. Intended to live in a world that requires faith pure. We can draw only the pure faith, without in any way based on human subjects. No reason, no system of thought, no organic culture, completeness and no power of thought organic, built, will guard our faith. Faith will be naked, pure, based solely on the word of God considered within. We can not draw to anything, to no summary, no summation. It may be that the genes that humanity can still give birth from her womb, to express a new cultural synthesis appropriate to the Gospel. But it is much, much, much, more and more difficult.
And we will not have the comfort none of the small nests that are homogeneous social and support our evangelical life. As we do not any more of us in our country. Those last nests, those last niches "Covanta" and being a little warmth, a certain warmth ... will be very difficult to reproduce. In vain you try to play them. Indeed, any attempt to reconstitute, or create a drink that can restore a cultural synthesis or organic social safeguards and defending the faith will always be an illusion to try ... even if a certain temptation is always reviving. Perhaps in these days already trying to prepare new principals, new historical illusion, nine groups that seek to regroup the Christians. But Christians are just bunched up on the word of God and sull'Evangelo! And increasingly, we rely solely on the word of the Lord, sull'Evangelo reflected, meditated, assimilated. Not looking out, not relying on others who may somehow help with our thinking, but looking inside ourselves and listening to the testimony of the Spirit who tells us that Jesus is real, living and eternal. Yes, there is the Church, but if not it becomes more spiritual, rather than seeking the support, the props of social groupings of all kinds of things that should have been persuaded that do not take ... that is not appropriate to divine truth of all that we profess, the Church itself if it becomes more spiritual will not be able to fulfill its mission to truly connect the children of the Gospel! "
(Giuseppe Dossetti, Montesole a homily for the occupation of John Lenzi, 1994)
