Florence Committee Promotes

OUR INITIATIVES

IN ITALY

FOR GIUBILEO 2000

The Florence Committee together Promotes in occasion of the Saint Year of 2000 the artist fiorentino Galeazzo Auzzi, has realized a plan that has been, in occasion of the Giubileo, an historical-artistic message of Florence, than very it has become part in that context of manifestations that have gone to enrich such event.

One Extension, one publication and one video cassette.

Initially we had thought pittoricamente to represent the Papi of this century, but us it seemed reductive for ours excursus historical religious not to insert a Pope of the Devout importance of IX, last Pope Re. With he in fact it comes to finish the temporal power of the Roman Pontefice lasted approximately 1140 years, last Pope to have celebrated the Giubileo without to open the Saint Doors.

As the plan took body we rendered account that the idea of the extension of the ten ritratti representing the Pontefici, in the time arc that we had considered, needed of one card on their mission pietrina, without to forget but the history and the origin about the event to giubilare, giving therefore an ulterior sense to our job. Such task was entrusted the Frank President Mariani, Vaticanista Journalist.

In these ten ritratti of successory of the Apostle Peter, Auzzi are successful to natch some, evidencing them wise, the humanity, the suffering (Pope John Paul II) the goodness (Giovanni XXIII and Giovanni Paul I).

Mariani, to forehead of its journalistic experience and of writer, has tried, in the several cards, to less put in prominence the known aspects of the apostolate of these men of God, than they are finds to you to carry out their sacerdotal ministry in a travagliato century, in continuous movement, all stiff to the search of the supreme good.

The Committee augurs itself that this Giubileo, and our publication wants to be a small contribution towards this direction, makes "riassorbire and to taste" the sense us of the forgiveness and the reconciliation with same we, with our siblings, with God.

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Its Ecc.za Rev.ma Mons. ANGELO COMASTRI

PAPAL DELEGATE - ARCHBISHOP PRESIDE OF LORETO

The Pope indirectly remembers us that "the two thousand years give it birth of Christ not only represent an extraordinarily large Giubileo for the Christians, but for all the humanity, data the prominent role that the Christianity has exercised in these two millenia" (Tertio adveniente millenium, 15).

It is clear, then, than in the 2000 Church he that is does not celebrate the 2000 (round figure, magical, mythical...), but he picks the occasion in order to remember to if same and to the world the person who has cracked the human history, introducing a innovation that leaves perlomeno all thoughtful ones: costui he is Jesus Christ!

The Giubileo then, is not the event but it is the propitious occasion in order to emphasize that that already has happened and entered in the history and attends to enter in our life in order to make to be born... Francisco d' Assisi, or Caterina from Siena, or Vincenzo de' Pauls, or Teresa di Lisieux, or Massimiliano Kolbe, or Luigi Orione, or Teresa di Calcutta!

First scope of the Giubileo and, therefore, the ignition of the astonishment in front of the inaudito one, to the unexpected one that has taken face and yes is made between the men in Jesus Christ present.

André Gide (noticed the name!) he was able to pick the paradoxical aspect of the vicissitude of Christ. It has succeeded in to declare: "Task that features not to believe itself to the words of the Christ because the Christ is the Son of God, how much to comprise that it is the Son of God why its word is divine and infinitely higher than all that that the art and the wisdom of the men can proporci. Getlteman, because me it has not been said that you were the Son of God you listen to your word; but your word is beautiful above every human word and from this I recognize that the six Son of God ".

And equally F. Dostoevskij wrote to the Sonia grandaughter in 1868: "the beautiful one is the ideal (...). To the world is only one positively beautiful person: Christ. The apparition of this person, sconfinatamente infinitely beautiful is already an infinite miracle ".

Ricciotti Abbot Observed: "In the life of Christ all it is paradoxical, that is outside from the normal outline of the history. But the paradox of continuous, such Jesus and which, also after its dead women. Sure it is that Jesus, today, is alive who never between the men. No living is as well as alive how much Jesus. It is "sign of contradiction" also like historical fact ".

We cover some rings of the paradox that is Jesus.

It is preannounced and attended in order nearly two millenia from persons who do not know themselves between they nevertheless yes they complete mirabilmente. The profezia more paradoxical it is that one of according to Isaia (Is. 52, 13-15; 53, 1-12), where a servant is announced who will win through the umiliazione: it is the profezia that it made to fall in ginocchio Israel Zoller, rabbi head of Rome, and lead to the faith and the christening font. Same it declared: "E' be Isaia to condurmi in the earth of the gospel, to the feet of the Crocifisso! ".

Jesus is born in the time in which the compivano profezie (as he is testified also from not religious sources: Tacito and Svetonio; and from not Biblical sources: Flavio Giuseppe), but its life develops all in humanly inexplicable way.

It is born poor from poor: the poor ones unfortunately do not make history, he yes!

It chooses like its humblest and social insignificant collaborating directing: costoro they would not have had to find credit in the society and instead they prime the greatest religious movement that the history knows, stopped do not give to the immediate wave of one feracious persecution duration nearly three centuries.

It foretells a message absolutely counter-current: in Jesus not there is demagogy shadow, of popolarità search at all costs. Nevertheless its message does not succeed to being forgotten; indeed, while all it ages, the gospel riemerge with incredible giovinezza!

It dies on the scaffold of the slaves: anyone, with this fine, would be hasty in the oblivion of the failure. It instead riemerge and returns to the center of the attention and, in its name, he never begins a known adventure.

Jesus, finally, has announced its return to the term of the race of the centuries with a judgment in which every person will be weighed on the balance of the charity: given the premises, all he leaves to think that also this punctually will happen!

Giovanni Papini, in the conclusive prayer of the History of Christ, expresses itself therefore: "We have need of you, you single and no other. No other, nobody of the many that they live, nobody of that sleeps in the mota of the Gloria, can give to needy, reversed we in the atrocious shortage, the misery more tremendous than all, that one of the spirit, the good that saves. All have need of you also those that do not know it; and those that do not know it, much more than those that know it. The hungry person s' imagines to try the bread and has to make some of you; the made thirsty one believes of wanting the water and has silks of you; the sick one is deceived dì to yearn for the health and its evil is the absence of you.

Who tries the beauty of the world tries, without to notice some, you that the six entire and perfect beauty; who pursues in the thoughts the truth, wishes, without wanting, you that the six only truth worthy to be known; and who is worried itself behind the peace tries you, single peace where the more restless hearts can rest ".

And he concludes with a prayer in which he vibrates one the great humility and one immense confidence: "But we, the last ones, wait for to you. We wait for you every day, to dispetto of our indegnità. And all the love that we will be able to torchiare from our hearts devasta you will be for you, Crocifisso, that you were tormented for love ours and hour torments us with all the power of your implacable love ".

The Giubileo is propitious occasion in order to make to be born these feelings within of we, picking within the history the point light of all the history.

The extension of the ten the pittorici profiles of Pontefici that have guided the Church of Jesus in the last centocinquanta years is anch' it an occasion in order to reflect: ten faces are ten books; ten faces are ten eroismi; ten faces are ten passions that ripropongono to the world the Passion of the only Salvatore: Jesus!

Thanks to painter Galeazzo Auzzi for its brilliant interpretation of the faces.

Thanks to Mariani Franc for its punctual historical notes.

Thanks to all the valid Members of the Committee "Florence Promote": on this generous engagement the Madonna makes to bloom the joy of Its Magnificat.

Cosi Its Holiness Giovanni Paul II has addressed recently to the Artists with a letter universal they addressed personally, here some steps that very illustrate the sense of the job on the Saint Year of the Florence Committee Promote:

"No best of you artists, brilliant constructors of beauty, can intuire something of the pathos with which God, to the dawn of the creation, it watched to the work of its hands. A vibration of that feeling is infinite times reflected in the looks with which you, as the artists of every time, fascinate from the astonishment for the mysterious power of the sounds and the words, the colors and the shapes, have admired the work of yours estro, perceiving nearly the echo to you of that mystery of the creation to which God, creator solo all the things, has intentional in some way to associate to you.

All are not call to you to being artists in the specific sense of the term.

The artist when she not only puts molding on a capolavoro calls its work while still alive, but for means of it, in a sure way, she reveals also the own personality.

In the art it finds one new dimension and one extraordinary channel of expression for its spiritual increase.

Through the works realized, the artist it speaks and it communicates with the others.

The art works speak about their authors, introduce to the acquaintance of their intimate one and reveal originate it them contribution from they offered to the history of the culture.

The society, in effects has need of artists, as it has need of scientists, technicians, workers, professionals, witnesses of the faith, masters, fathers and mothers, that they guarantee the increase of the person and the development of the community through that highest shape of art that is "the educational art".

In the immense cultural panorama of every nation, the artists have their specific place. Just while they obey to theirs estro, in the realization of truly valid and beautiful works, they not only enrich the cultural patrimony of ciascuna nation and the entire humanity but they render also a characterized social service to advantage of the common good.

The different vocation of every artist, while it determines the within of its service, indicates the tasks that it must be assumed, the hard job to which must submit, the responsibility that must face. An aware artist of all that knows also of having to operate without to let to dominate from the search of Gloria fatua or the smania of an easy popolarità, and still less from the calculation than a possible personal profit.

Every authentication artistic intuition goes beyond that they perceive the senses and, penetrating the truth, is strained to interpret of the hidden mystery. It gushes from the deep one of the human mind, here where the aspiration to giving a sense to the own life is accompanied to the perception fugace of the beauty and the mysterious unit of the things. A experience shared from all the artists is that one of the incolmabile difference that exists between the work of their hands, for how much resolution it is, and the flashing perfection of the beauty perceived in the fervor of the creative moment: how much they succeed to express in that they paint, carve, create are not that a dim light of that splendor that is flashed with lightning for some moment in front of the eyes of their spirit.

Every authentic shape of art is, to its way, one via of access to the deeper truth of the man and the world.

To conclusion of Concilio Ecumenico Vatican II the Bishops of all the world assemble to you in Saint Peter, have turned to the artists a salute and an appeal: "This world - they have said - in which we live has need of beauty, in order not to fall in the desperation. The beauty, like the truth, puts the joy in the heart of the men, and is a precious fruit that resists to the logorio of the time, that it joins the generations and ago to communicate in the admiration ".

With this letter I address you, artists of the entire world, in order to confirm my esteem to you and in order to contribute to riannodar of one more profitable cooperation between the art and the Church.

Every to be human, in a sure sense, it is disowned to if same. Jesus Christ not only reveals God, but "he totally reveals the man to the man". In Christ God it has reconciled to himself the world. All the believers are call to you to render this testimony; but it touches you, men and women who you have dedicated to the art your life, to say with the wealth of your genius that in Christ the world is redento: he is redento the man, it is redento the human body, it is redenta the entire creation.

Beloveds artists, you very it sapete, many are the stimuli, inner and outer, that they can inspire your talent.

On the threshold by now of the third millenium, I augur to all you the most expensive artists, of being caught up from these creative inspirations with particular intensity.

The beauty that you will transmit to the generations tomorrow is such to arouse in they the astonishment. Of forehead to the sacralità of the life and the human being, of forehead to the wonders of the universe, the only adequate attitude is that one of the astonishment.

Of this enthusiasm the men have need today and tomorrow in order to face and to exceed the crucial challenges that are announced to the horizon.

Thanks to it the humanity, after every loss, will be able to raise itself and still to resume its way.

In so far as it has been said with deep intuition that "the beauty will save the world".

The beauty of the created things cannot satisfy, and provokes that mysterious nostalgia of God that a sweetheart of the beautiful one as Sant' Augustin has known to interpret with ineguagliabili accents.

Your multiple paths, artists of the world, can infinitely lead all to that ocean of beauty where the astonishment makes admiration, drunkness, inexpressibile joy.

"the world of the Spirit Emerges from the chaos"!

From the words that Adam Michiewicz wrote in a moment of great suffering for the Polish native land, I draw an auspice for you: your art contributes to asserting itself of an authentic beauty that, nearly I reverberate of the Spirit of God, trasfiguri the matter, opening the minds to the sense of the eternal one.

With my more cordial auguries

From Vatican 4 You open them 1999, Passover di Risurrezione.

TEN PONTEFICI FOR GIUBILEO 2000

Great Giubileo 2000 from many has been seen like an occasion in order to earn, taking advantage of a event rendered world-wide from the mass-medium, and that it has seen in pilgrimage migliaia and migliaia of persons.

Many Public Administration has announced huge extensions and cultural events, spending hundred and hundred of million, only for the planning, without to arrive to the preparation, solo because the bancari State or institutes has not granted deep.

This solo in order to earn, and in order not to carry and to diffuse the message to giubilare.

The Florence Association Promotes and Master Galeazzo Auzzi, in December 1998, has made a bet: to put on one extension to giubilare "poor", that is without to spend tens and tens of million publics, itinerante for Italy, in order to carry and to diffuse the message to giubilare, making also we cosi our pilgrimage.

Born E' cosi the extension "TEN PONTEFICI FOR GIUBILEO 2000", the only extension to personally giubilare itinerante of Florence, blessed from Pope John Paul II, that it has visionato the pictures in Vatican, with the presentation and preface of the President of the Italian Committee Great Giubileo 2000, the Papal Delegate - Archbishop Prelato di Loreto, Mons. Comastri angel, than dall' October 1999, to Rome, al December 2000, to Florence, through ten stages, has turned in along and wide Italy, visited gives beyond 100.000 visitors.

This publication wants to be one small collection of articles publishes to you (not always is resolutions to having news of the several escapes on daily paper, weeklies magazine, salaries of of the services of the several regional televisions) and the companies and testimonies of some visitors, in how much in Italy, with the exception of how much happens to the foreign country, does not exist the custom to leave the own company, to testimony of the visit, especially for the free extensions, as it was ours.

That in spite of the pages of the companies is much numerous and some bring back interesting judgments.

Together to Auzzi we have thought to insert, between the many speeches inaugurates them, also emphasizing the importance and the thickness of the others, only two, that one of the City council member to the Culture of the Region Tuscany, Mariella Lame, and of the City council member to the Popular Valorizations of the Common one of Florence, Eugene Giani, both holding in occasion of the last great exposure, November 2000, in Cripta of the Basilica of Croce Saint to Florence, because they wide reassume our way to act and to think, is for this extension to giubilare, is for our daily paper.

Who has not visited the extension, reading this publication, published in limited and distributed number free of charge, in order does not make publicity us, but because it remains a tangible trace of the carried out job, she will have way to become account of like this initiative, all fiorentina, she has left a indelebile sign in those who have had occasion to reflect, and to stop themselves, on the universal message and to giubilare carried from last the ten Pontefici of the Catholic Church in the world, to which the job of Master Auzzi and historical notes of the undersigned they have intentional to render devout person and branch (office) homage.

FRANC MARIANI

Florence President Promotes

SPEECH INAUGURATES THEM IN CROCE SAINT

I have accepted with particular joy I invite it of Mariani Franc, not only because the things that it proposes for Florence have a beautiful one meant, and therefore I have always continuations with great interest and great affection to them, but also because to see these pictures they give near, in which painter Galeazzo Auzzi it has demonstrated of being truly an artist, in knowing to pick expressions, spiritualità, intelligence in these faces that are looked at exposed and that we have here to our shoulders, is a truly only and irripetibile occasion.

Naturally, being the Year of the Giubileo, this it is a type of not pomposa manifestation, also why tied to a spiritualità that often only the art is in a position to expressing, and of this I must ringraziare, beyond to Mariani and Auzzi, the Cultural Association Florence Promotes and the Franciscan Fathers of Croce Saint.

For everyone of we some of this Papi have made part of the own life, others are school memories, study to you with admiration because obviously we are speaking about great figures, spiritual figures that have determined screw, screw daily, that behaviors have inspired and therefore they make, in bottom, all part of we.

You allow me, in an occasion like this, to tell one small personal experience: I was truly a child when Pope Giovanni XXIII was on Papal Soglio, in that age in which it is passed from infancy to the adolescence and where the figures and the spiritualità begin to enter in the life of the individuals. Here this Pope is always remained in my life and my heart.

I have had three times very the occasion to go from he; before the time like vincitrice of competition "VERITAS"; I do not know if someone if it remembers it, but every year to school made to make a topic us and once I had the fortune to gain the travel to Rome in order to participate to the personal audience with the Pope.

Second time with school of Mass, my city born them, school Siblings Christian, that it had organized a private audience in Vatican while the third time I have had the occasion to feel from the alive one, in Saint Public square Peter, what is remained one of the historical speeches of Giovanni XXIII, the "speech to the moon", where with its way simple to say the things invited the present ones to carry to house "to your children the caress of the Pope and ditegli that it is the caress of the Pope, and that the Pope is the father of all." In that moment we felt all joining like to a father, and was for me a touching experience so that I have always carried within of me that smile, those words, that sound of that voice, above all when they have become mother, and that I could transmit to my daughter that heat, that joy, the intensity of those simple words that had touched all those that were lì in S. public square Peter that evening and that still today they remember, because in the semplicità often they are the more important things of the life and therefore we succeed to understand, to pick this semplicità to enjoy it totally. And then truly we feel ourselves like an artist.

Like our Auzzi painter who is successful with its pennellate ones, with light drawn its, to pick and to fix these beautifulst images of the Pontefici, that they are in bottom a part of we, of our life.

Thanks therefore Master Auzzi of what he has given us, thanks to the Guardiano Father whom today he accommodates to us in this evocative one Cripta of the majestic Basilica of Croce Saint, and thanks to Mariani Franc, than once again splendid event has known to create one.

A short salute, because honestly also in these Lame words a lot felt and touching of Mariella meeting a not common sensibility, in which I have seen an expression that it is an authentic expression on which is very little then from saying like thanks and acknowledgment to the merits of this extension, all fiorentina, than from very a year it is turning Italy in along and wide, always very received and visited.

Undoubtedly there is in this place of prestige, that it is Cripta of one of the more Basilche important flourishing some, a climate and a particular atmosphere that they render reason to the works of Galeazzo Auzzi and render merit to Mariani, that it has intentional to organize this Extension here, because it is certain that in this year to giubilare in our minds, in our eyes, those images that the Church has succeeded to provoke through several the moments of encounter, of aggregation debate, and all we have the knowledge, believers and not believers, of how much spiritual energy fix succeed to provoke an event like the Giubileo.

Therefore these ten Papi considered from Auzzi are undoubtedly of the figures of reference in last the 120 years regarding the 264 Pontefici that have characterized the guide of the Church in two thousand years.

They are particular figures, important figures, figures of reference, I repeat, than undoubtedly the great sensibility of Auzzi it has known to represent, and the historical notes of the Vaticanista Mariani to fix.

Faces that we have seen, or in great single part on the school books, or that we have followed, directly or indirectly, during our life, through newspapers or the television.

This has been a Saint Year that has given of the emotions that will remain indelebili in the life of everyone of we, and therefore today the inauguration of this extension, in the month of November, nearly to the end of the Giubilare Year and the distance made from the Extension, to turn for Italy, is a meant fact of large, because it accompanies, and at the same time risottolinea, in some way, a experience that everyone of we sure has drawn from this Giubileo, from this event that the history has delivered to us, and that it has given to us of being able living, and this, creed, of we have been all touches to you.

Thanks indeed to Mariani.

It remembered pocanzi like from the first Fallen experience of the Committee of Ugnano, today Florence Committee Promotes, has always followed it, but I would today want also dirgli thanks above all for the stimuli that constantly he offers to the Communal Administration Fiorentina, and to the Public Administrations in kind, in the moment in which some important recurrence is forgotten.

Its action of stimulus, and sometimes of critic, when this happens, is an indispensable action because it stimulates the City, that it is full of rich history and of memories, not to forget nobody and no episode between that they have carried Florence to being point of reference to national and international level, with an attention that indeed only little persons succeed with costanza to provoke.

The occasion odierna gives the opportunity to me ringraziare Auzzi painter, than with its Pontefici ritratti of last the ten has rendered this beautiful initiative possible to giubilare and in particolar Frank way Mariani for the action that daily carries out, just in one of those that they are my delegations, and that one to which perhaps holds more, and that I perceive with greater responsibility, and that is that one of the rievocazione of the historical traditions flourishing some, and even if this today is not placed in the rievocazioni flourishing some, undoubtedly contributes to illustrate the role that our city has like historical and cultural reference, is for our country is for the humanity.

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