"In Christ Crucified, the two forms of love, eros and agape, meet in their fullness". Benedict XVI’s encyclical, Deus Caritas est, is the inspiration that led mgr. Josef Paul Cordes, president of the Papal Council "Cor Unum", to present in the Vatican today the Pope’s Lenten message, "They will turn to look at He whom they pierced through". "Certainly, to Benedict XVI too, God looks like the great absentee of our age said Cordes -. Transcendence is something that concerns perhaps the haziness of philosophy… but the trite everyday life does not need it any more! The Pope cannot give in to this impoverishment. God’s absence is worse than material poverty". "The Pope he added resumes the reflection on eros and agape he had started in his encyclical, he sees these two forms of love meet in their fullness in Christ Crucified" and "makes us raise your eyes". Benedict XVI does not forget "the exhortation to factual help". The Christ pierced through "will drive us to fight any form of contempt of life and exploitation of the person, and to alleviate the tragedies of so many people’s loneliness and desertion". No one, though, by address oneself to Christ, intends to replace the service of man with the service to God".
