” “In a world "troubled" and "dazed by the contradictory messages of the ideologies", "missionary enthusiasm" can be an antidote to the "craving for power, success, pleasure" provided it becomes the "building of a fairer social order", able to "stand up to the advance of barbarism". This was written by the Pope in the message he sent today to the participants in the II World Meeting of Church Movements and New Communities, which is in progress in Rocca di Papa (until June 2nd) about: "The beauty of being Christians and the joy of making it known". "Bring the light of Christ in all the social and cultural circles in which you live", was Benedict XVI’s exhortation to the church movements that he is going to meet in Saint Peter’s Square on June 3rd. "Missionary enthusiasm warns the Holy Father means checking the radicalism of an experience of an ever-new faithfulness to one’s charisma, which brings one beyond any weary and selfish withdrawal into oneself. Throw light on the darkness of a world that is dazed by the contradictory messages of the ideologies! There’s no such thing as beauty if there is no truth to be recognised and followed, if love deteriorates into a fleeting feeling, if happiness becomes an elusive mirage, if freedom degenerates into instinct". "How much evil can be produced in the life of man and the nations by the craving for power, possession, pleasure!", exclaimed the Pope as he exhorted the movements to bring "into this troubled world the testimony of the freedom with which Christ freed us", thus "making the desert in which we often have to live blossom out again".” “
