Vatican City, 16 May 2015 (VIS) –
This morning a press conference was held in the Holy See Press Office
for the presentation of the project “The Great Mystery: the Gospel
of the Family, school of humanity for our times”, promoted by the
Pontifical Council for the Family and by Maestro Andrea Bocelli. It
is a series of events, in particular light and sound shows, to take
place in different European cities during the year dedicated to
reflection on the family in view of the upcoming Synod assembly in
October. The speakers at the conference were Bishop Vincenzo Paglia,
president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, the tenor Andrea
Bocelli, and Cardinal Lluis Martinez Sistach, archbishop of
Barcelona, the first city to host the event in the Basilica of the
Sagrada Familia.
Cardinal Martinez Sistach recalled the
universal dimension of Barcelona's basilica, which is visited by more
than three million people every year, and its wealth of biblical,
theological and liturgical symbolism. He emphasised that the
initiative of the Pontifical Council, which will open during a time
dedicated to the holy family, will propose, through beauty, music and
thought, to “present the beauty and transcendence of the mystery of
the Christian family, which consists of an intimate community of life
and love between spouses and between parents, children, brothers and
sisters, in the bosom of a much larger family, in society and in the
Church. The great virtues and values of today's Christian family are
necessary and very urgent. We must not forget that Vatican Council
II, speaking of marriage and the family, tells us that the well-being
of people, society and the Church are strictly linked to the
prosperity of the conjugal and family communities”.
“The basilica of the Sagrada Familia
is a manifestation of the great mystery of God and man”, explained
the archbishop of Barcelona. “In our time, in which man attempts to
build a life without God, as if He had nothing to say to us, this
magnificent temple has great meaning. Gaudi, in his masterpiece,
shows us that God is the true measure of man. That the secret of his
authentic originality resides, as he himself said, in returning to
his origins, which are God. The basilica, in the middle of this great
city, a space of beauty, faith and hope, leads man to the encounter
with He Who is Truth and Beauty itself”.
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