“Evangelisation in the metropolises of the XXI century will largely depend on the clarity of the content that we have been entrusted to proclaim”: it was said in Budapest, as he spoke at the International Congress for new evangelisation, which opened on September 16th (until 22nd), by Ralph Martin of the “Renewal in spirit”. “I will give you a future and a hope” is the subject of the event, which after Vienna 2003, Paris 2004, Lisbon 2005 and Brussels 2006, concludes the new evangelisation in the European capitals. “New evangelisation, which – specified Martin – does not consist in a new Gospel or even less forces one to leave one’s own Gospel, even if it may seem difficult for modern mentality and culture to accept it”, but it implies “placing Christ as the measure of every culture and every human action”. “The importance” and “the gravity” of the task of “announcing and spreading the Gospel in today’s Europe” had also been stressed by Benedict XVI in the letter of appointment to cardinal Camillo Ruini, his vicar general for the diocese of Rome, appointed to act on his behalf as a special envoy to Budapest. Tomorrow, card. Peter Erdö, archbishop of Budapest, will celebrate Mass in Esztergom; the archbishops who hosted the previous events will meet in the Hungarian capital on September 22nd.
