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1904–1977 Italy
Giorgio La Pira, TOSD (Raimondo in religious life; 9 January 1904 – 5 November 1977) was an Italian Catholic politician who served as the mayor of Florence. He also served as a deputy for Christian Democracy (DC), the ruling party of post-war Italy, and participated in the assembly that wrote the Italian Constitution following World War II.
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The [world] crisis was determined by the expulsion of this contemplative primacy of man's values.
The prophets of our time are those who protested against the crushing of man under the weight of economic laws and technical apparatus, who rejected these fatalities.
What is this crisis? It's a crisis of waiting.
The measure of judgment? Love. But to prevent this love from vaping into the generic, it is incorporated into elementary and precise acts.
Beneath the surface of formless matter is the firm ideal structure of a rebirth that has, in the city of God, its model of beauty and light.
This is how we see and interpret the global youth movement of protest: as a fact of inevitable and irreversible migration of new generations who, with the changing historical season, move inevitably and irreversibly towards new continents, towards new structures, new societies.
The struggle in the earth city to give bread to those who have none, to clothe those who are naked, is a condition for becoming citizens of the heavenly city.
Prophecy is that admirable union of continuity and progress, which ensures that the future is not a repetition of the past, but that it is not pure novelty either.
The adjective in the expression "Western civilization" has no noun value: it has only a geographical value and all it allows us is to look with a fixed, but expressionless, eye at the cardinal points.
Florence is the center of the world. [The Dominican convent of] San Marco is the center of Florence and the Annunciation by Beato Angelico frescoed there is the center of San Marco. So the Annunciation is the center of the world.
The entire edifice of Christian civilization and Christian history was built on the solid fortresses of the contemplative monasteries.
Don Bosco, Don Orione, and so on, all one: to give creatures the Grace of Christ, a grace incorporated into work and the visibility of the essential things in life.
Christianity is the city of Mary: virginal in being, contemplative in working; reflected in the "contemplative city," also reflected in "Christian" cities and "Christian" civilizations; Marian Christianity…, a hope that shines on the horizon of the entire present civilization.
How does Christianity operate in the world? In the way the artist works on the stone he works: imprinting in it – as much as is possible! – the light and ideal beauty with which he is filled.
New generations are like migratory birds, like swallows: they feel the weather, they feel the season. When spring comes, they move in an orderly fashion, driven by an invincible vital instinct...towards the lands where spring is in bloom.
[Grace] It is a movement of renewal that always brings, due to the resistance of the past, a healthy disturbance.
This age of exile, of remoteness, of atheism, this ultimate limit of unanchoring from Christ, this extreme shore, in appearance, of materialism, invokes –perhaps by the law of opposites– the supreme shores of the glory of the resurrection and of love.
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