The desire and hope of my heart, through the abyss of my sins and omissions, is to diminish and conceal myself, so that the Church may remain and grow. To glorify the holy body of Christ, to reveal its graceful members, to build up the Christian humanity, to realize the ecclesiastical person.
Only ecclesiastical humility preserves our unique individuality. What dishonors the Church, causing the world to despair, is its distortion into religious ideology or into a sacred state, which is professionally served by the clergy, and which mostly remains blind to the ongoing revelation of God's mystical beauty and the mysterious beauty of man.
Ultimately, people will not hate Christ, but will freely abandon the Church, the one that continues to flirt with History and seeks its earthly establishment. The Church that, in the absurdity of history or under the power of the demonic, does not embody the witness of the paradox or the freedom of the eschatological.
Christ, instead of religion, built His Church, the mystery that is in the world but is not of the world, precisely a paradoxical or eschatological revelation: He is crucified but does not crucify; He hides in truth and not in power; He testifies in history but moves towards the Ends.
He does not dominate but serves; He does not condemn but venerates; He does not intimidate but consoles. In its heart is kept the joy of repentance and not the terror of hell.
