Enzo Bianchi Quotes
1943–2026 Italy
Enzo Bianchi (3 March 1943 – 1 September 2026) was an Italian Christian monk and the founder of the Bose Monastic Community.
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Jesus, our bliss, teaches us a path to happiness, opening up before us every day the ways to happiness that every human being longs for.
My childhood prayer is one I would never say today: God knows how many candles I lit before an exam or a test at school. It was a spontaneous, sincere way of praying, but today I practise other forms of prayer.
When political forces generously offer legal protection or financial support to churches, they are actually working for their own benefit. (I, 1)
The saint is the new man, the one who lives according to the model left by Jesus Christ; he is the man of the beatitudes; he is the man who has stripped himself of his selfishness and lives for God and others; he is the transfigured man. He is the truly and fully human man.
For us Christians, rituals are not enough; we need adherence of the heart and intellect. It is not enough to repeat formulas whose meaning is unknown: those who pray must understand what they are saying, and in this sense the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council was fundamental for a more thoughtful faith, one that is not merely devotion.