2022

"Let this Holy prophetic and missionary restlessness burn in your hearts"

The booklet of the Audience of Pope Francis with CL

The booklet of the Holy Father Pope Francis' Audience with Communion and Liberation on the occasion of the centenary of Fr. Luigi Giussani's birth (October 15, 2022, St. Peter's Square).

With an introductory greeting by Davide Prosperi, President of the Fraternity of CL, testimonies by Rose Busingye and Hassina Houari, and an address by Pope Francis.

" [...] We are gathered to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Msgr Luigi Giussani. And we do so with gratitude in our hearts, as we have heard from Rose and Hassina. I express my personal gratitude for the good it did for me, as a priest, to contemplate some of Fr Giussani’s books–as a young priest–and I do so also as universal Pastor for all that he knew how to sow and spread everywhere for the good of the Church. And how could those who were his friends, children and disciples not remember him with heartfelt gratitude? Thanks to his impassioned priestly paternity in communicating Christ, they grew in faith as a gift that gives meaning, human breadth and hope to life [...]" (From the address of Pope Francis)