Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Christ and the Church were his two great loves

Funeral of Luigi Giussani, Milan

MOVEMENTS: Fr. Alberto Eronti. I left Rome on the Euro Star train at 8:30. The weather was cold and damp, the sky was cloudy. After traveling a while I thought that I probably wasn't the only one traveling to attend the funeral of the Founder of "Communion and Liberation", so I began to observe my surroundings. A while later I saw that the young man seated at my side had begun to read the book "Un caffe in compagnia", that contains conversation between Giussani and Renato Farina (vice-director of "Libero"). On the other side of the aisle, a couple read and commented about the articles of "Corriere della Sera" and "La Repubblica", about the subject... (To keep reading, click on the above link. Several very nice photos of the funeral are also provided on this site.)

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