The CL Christmas Poster for 2024 is powerful. The quotation from Calvino, representing the search and struggle of an ardent religious sense, is followed by Luigi Guissani’s witness to the transforming power of God’s saving love made present in Jesus Christ. The video linked below gives the text accompanied by a videographic exploration of the angles, light, and texture of one of William Congdon’s paintings of the Nativity. The English translation of Guissani’s text is voiced over by a recording of the inimitable voice of the great Servant of God who founded the Communion and Liberation movement.
I remember this voice well, and the priest who spoke so convincingly, when he was still healthy and vigorous, giving conferences to hundreds of young people, inspiring them to follow Christ. Inspiring me when I was young, and inspiring me today.
“This has happened! Dispelling the fog of habit from our eyes and hearts, we want to return to the great news, the great announcement, the great fact, the great event… Destiny, our Destiny, has made itself a Presence. But a Presence as a father, mother, brother, friend, and—while we were walking—an unexpected companion along the way. A traveling companion: Emmanuel, God with us! This has happened!” (Luigi Giussani)
