” “Mgr. Bagnasco, in his introduction to the works of the Permanent Bishops Council that began today in Rome until 29th March, recalled his predecessors at the helm of the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) and expressed his "special gratitude" to card. Ruini. "Right now though he added we ask our beloved cardinal Ruini not to forget to help us and give us his advice as usual and also to keep carrying out, with the skills that distinguish him, that work of cultural enlivening that has been a quite relevant chapter of all his priestly life and of which the cultural project of CEI is an extremely qualified prophetic expression". Then, mgr. Bagnasco addressed "the value of Christian hope and of the spiritual dimension", the core of the Ecclesial Meeting of Verona. "Benedict XVI he specified spoke of Christian hope with great hope! That is, with that feeling of deep confidence and love, of sympathy and friendliness that the crowds feel flowing out of his person and of his words", as he recalled that "the subject of Love that is God" is the core of his first encyclical, as well as of the apostolic exhortation "Sacramentum caritatis", the "doctrinal, spiritual and pastoral richness" of which points at "the way of a spirituality and a pastoral that are truly Eucharistic, i.e. deeply focussed on the divine Eucharist that is its source and peak".” “
