Monsignor Luigi Giussani (1922--2005) was the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation in Italy, which has hundreds of thousands of adherents around the globe. In The Life of Luigi Giussani Alberto Savorana, who spent an important part of his life working and studying with Giussani, draws on many unpublished documents to recount who the priest was and how he lived. Giussani's life story is particularly significant because it shares many of the same challenges, risks, and paths toward enlightenment that are described in his numerous and influential publications. Savorana demonstrates that the circumstances Giussani experienced and the people he encountered played a crucial role in defining his vocation. Illuminating details are shared about Giussani's parents, professors, and friends in the seminary, the things he read, his priesthood, his experience teaching, misunderstandings and moments of recognition, and illness. Luigi Giussani considered Christianity to be a fact, a real event in human life, which takes the form of an encounter, inviting anyone and everyone to verify its relevance to life's needs. This is what happened for so many people all over the world who recognized in this priest and leader, with his rough and captivating voice, not only a teacher to learn from, but above all a man to compare oneself with -- a companion for the journey who could be trusted to answer the question: how can we live? In addition to providing the first chronological reconstruction of the life of the founder of Communion and Liberation, The Life of Luigi Giussani provides a detailed account of his legacy and what his life's work meant to individual people and the Church.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 230/.2092
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- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Translation of: Vita di don Giussani Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780773551855 9780773552173
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- BX4705.G5564
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- S2813 2018eb
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- 1 electronic text (xix, 1391 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 6
- Introduction 8
- PART ONE: 1922–1964 24
- 1 Birth and Childhood (1922–1933) 26
- 2 The Seminary (1933–1945) 54
- 3 The Masters of the "School of Venegono" 84
- 4 "Studium Christi" and Priestly Ordination (1939–1945) 106
- 5 The Early Years of Priesthood and Illness (1945–1950) 131
- 6 From the Confessional to Assistant to Student Youth (1950–1954) 154
- 7 Starting to Teach in Berchet High School (1954) 188
- 8 Montini, the Citizen Mission, and The Religious Sense (1957–1958) 229
- 9 The Experience of GS: A Method Imposes Itself (1958–1962) 261
- 10 The Adult Group: The Events Leading Up to It and Its Beginnings (1958–1975) 288
- 11 The Beginning of the Mission in Brazil (1960–1964) 301
- 12 Montini, Experience, the Council, and Giovanni Colombo (1963–1964) 317
- PART TWO: 1964–1986 374
- 13 From His Travels in America to the Beginning of the Crisis (1965–1967) 376
- 14 Sixty-Eight 413
- 15 The Birth of CL and the Early Seventies 439
- 16 Friendship with the University Students (1970–1976) 502
- 17 Spain: A Historical Excursus (1974–1985) 530
- 18 Palm Sunday with Pope Paul VI (1975) 551
- 19 The Late Seventies 570
- 20 The Year of Three Popes (1978) 611
- 21 The Birth of the Fraternity of CL and Its Pontifical Recognition (1980–1982) 629
- 22 The Assassination Attempt on John Paul II and the Early Eighties 644
- 23 CL's Thirtieth Anniversary and the Pope's Missionary Mandate (1984) 687
- 24 The Late Eighties 714
- PART THREE: 1986–2005 754
- 25 Trips to the Holy Land, Japan, and Greece (1986–1987) 756
- 26 The Synod on the Laity and the Tenth Anniversary of John Paul II (1987–1988) 785
- 27 Pontifical Recognition of the Memores Domini and the Fraternity of Saint Joseph (1988–1990) 819
- 28 The War in Iraq and the Pilgrimage to Lourdes (1991–1992) 850
- 29 The Books of the Christian Spirit, Justice, and the Historicity of the Gospels (1993–1994) 896
- 30 The Movement's Fortieth Anniversary and the University Students (1994) 934
- 31 Responsibility and Italy in Danger (1995–1996) 960
- 32 Illness and "God All in All" (1996–1997) 1018
- 33 Spirto Gentil, The Religious Sense at the UN, and Modern Rationalism (1997–1998) 1043
- 34 30 May with John Paul II and the Work (1998–1999) 1065
- 35 The "Christian Claim" and the Jubilee of the Year 2000 (1999–2000) 1090
- 36 Ground Zero and Giussani's Eightieth Birthday (2001–2002) 1125
- 37 The Space Shuttle and Nasiriyah (2003) 1148
- 38 The Last Letter to the Pope and CL's Fiftieth Anniversary (2004) 1170
- 39 The Death of Giussani and the Funeral (2005) 1198
- Epilogue 1228
- Historical Note 1236
- Endnotes 1244
- Index of Names 1428
- A 1428
- B 1428
- C 1430
- D 1432
- E 1433
- F 1433
- G 1434
- H 1436
- I 1436
- J 1436
- K 1436
- L 1436
- M 1437
- N 1439
- O 1439
- P 1439
- Q 1441
- R 1441
- S 1441
- T 1443
- U 1443
- V 1443
- W 1444
- Z 1444
