ROMA, 8 May. (IRIN) -
Benedict XVI concluded his visit to Venice in the Basilica of Santa María de la Salud and declared that the Gospel is the greatest force for transforming the world, but is not a utopia or an ideology " , in a speech to representatives from the world of culture, art and economics.
"The first generations of Christians" the Pope said, they called the Gospel "the way, the way of life that Christ has practiced for the first time and invites us to follow" and emphasized that the gospel is the way of charity in truth. "
Benedict XVI has arrived in a gondola to the Basilica Santa Maria Health from Piazza San Marco in Venice, the gondola itself used the Blessed John Paul II during his visit in 1985.
"No need to walk the path of charity only great things, but above all in the ordinary circumstances of life," added the Pontiff to the representatives of culture and economy.
The pope recalled that a sociologist European culture defined as 'settled', to express "its low stability, the inconsistency that sometimes seems to characterize" and therefore proposed Venice as a city is not settled, but as a city of life and beauty. "
"In the story" Pope has pointed out, we must "choose" because "man is free to interpret, make sense of reality and that freedom consists precisely in his great dignity."
"In the area of \u200b\u200ba city, also the election of an administrative, cultural and economic development depend on this basic approach, which we call 'political' within the meaning highest and most noble of the term" added the Pontiff.
In this sense, the Pope has declared that "the choice is between a city 'settled', the home of a culture that seems increasingly that of the relative and the ephemeral" or "a city that constantly renews its beauty taking advantage of charitable sources of art and knowledge, relationships between men and between peoples ".
On the other hand, Benedict XVI has said that Christ" immersed "man" in a pure stream and reviving melting man of his physical paralysis, mental and spiritual "and cure" hardness of heart, self-centered narrow-mindedness. "
Christ, recalled the Pope, has cured" all manner of patients, but also freed the possessed and has forgiven the sins, risen from the dead. "
Jesus, the Pope concluded, revealed that" God loves life and wants to release of any denial, even the most radical, which is spiritual evil, sin, the root poisonous poisons everything. "
After his speech, the pope greeted some of those present and visited the restored Chapel of the Holy Trinity the Basilica and blessed the Library of 'Studium Generale Marcianum'.
Later, the Pope addressed to the airport 'Marco Polo' to go back to Rome and arrive at Ciampino airport at around 20, 30 hours.
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