La rivista
Jesus Caritas
Issue number 112 (October 2008) is dedicated
to The
childhood of Charles de Foucauld, on the occasion
of 150 years from his birth (1858). We have gladly accepted to publish the
excellent scientific analysis of Fr.
Gerard Wickenhein, Charles de Foucauld bambino. Fr. Andrea
Mondonico, our dear friend, made the translation, and
he writes to say:
It is with pleasure that I have
read and then translated this small book. I am not one of those who think that saints
simply fall from heaven, ready made. Rather, each saint is born related to a
precise period of civil and religious history. It seems to me that in order to
understand the life of a saint, including his inevitable positive as well as
negative aspects, we have to try and picture him in his existential experience.
Then we can feel closer to him and hence we are in a better position to look at
him from the viewpoint of “sequela Christi”. The
meaning and the originality of being a Christian is always in his referral to
Christ. Charles de Jésus himself writes that:
“let us
contemplate Him who has already filled up their lives, taking from each one of
them all that conforms to the words and examples of Our Lord, our true model,
using their teaching not in order to imitate them, but in order to imitate
better Jesus”.
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