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The Glory of God Is Living Man
Notes from Fr Giussani’s closing words to the International Assembly of CL Responsibiles, La Thuile, August 23, 2003

“Gloria Dei vivens homo”. We know nothing more except the sun that strikes our poverty, which otherwise would disappear immediately into nothingness: Gloria Dei, the glory of Being.
How we thank our great friend Carrón for having synthesized in his few words, summarizing an entire process of the heart and mind; how we must thank him for having brought this misery of man into the heart of the definition, defining what man is–and man not as an abstract theory, but man as concrete misery, as an infinitesimal ephemeral part of things!
“ Gloria Dei vivens homo.” The glory of God, of Being, of Being who has entered our life, is inside our life, of Jesus; the glory of Jesus, the human glory of Christ, vivens homo, is only man who lives.
“Gloria Dei vivens homo.” Homo: homo with all his pettiness, his nothingness in front of Being who makes him be–who makes him be!
My God, thank you Jesus! Thank you, each of you who has been a brother to me, a part of every step of my journey over all these years, of a richness as stupendous as it is unrecognized, not recognized!
We pray to you, O Mary, all of us together, that your presence in front of the gaze of Being may be translated into conversion–because life is conversion, it is conversion from nothingness to Being.
Gloria Dei vivens homo. Till we meet again, my brothers, every day of our life, every instant of every day!