Letters from the Prelate

As I told you in St Josemaría's words, in my first letter as Father of this small part of the Church, our mission is to redeem and sanctify our time, to understand and share the concerns of our fellow men and women. I now take up the thread of those words: It is not true that everyone today - in general - is closed or indifferent to what our Christian faith teaches about mankind's being and destiny. It is not true that people in our time are turned only toward the things of...
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As I told you in St Josemaría's words, in my first letter as Father of this small part of the Church, our mission is to redeem and sanctify our time, to understand and share the concerns of our fellow men and women. I now take up the thread of those words: It is not true that everyone today - in general - is closed or indifferent to what our Christian faith teaches about mankind's being and destiny. It is not true that people in our time are turned only toward the things of this earth and have forgotten to look up to heaven. There is no lack of narrow ideologies, it is true, or of people who maintain them. But in our time we find both great desires and base attitudes, heroism and cowardice, zeal and disenchantment: men who dream of a new world, more just and more human, and others who, discouraged perhaps by the failure of their youthful idealism, hide themselves in the selfishness of seeking only their own security or remaining immersed in their errors.