"Not the man who withdraws into himself is the complete man" but the man who "opens up" to God and "finds in Christ his humanity". It was said by the Pope during today’s audience, dedicated to the figure of Saint Maximus the Confessor, who with "fearless courage testified the integrity of his faith in Jesus Christ, true God and true man". "One does not have to amputate man to account for the incarnation", warned the Pope, because "only outside ourselves, in God, do we find ourselves, our totality and completeness". Saint Maximus, in particular, "does not accept any reduction in Christ’s humanity", because "a man without a will would be an amputated man". Without a human as well as a divine will explained the Pontiff , "Jesus wouldn’t have been a true man, He wouldn’t have lived the tragedy of human life, which consists in our will complying with the will of the Being". To prove this, "the Scriptures do not show us an amputated man, but a true, concrete man: Christ, who has taken over the totality of the human being, including a human will". Therefore, Saint Maximus, according to the Pope, shows us "there is a dualism" in the human being as well as "how to overcome such dualism and find unity in the person of Christ, who is not schizophrenic". In other words, man "find his own integrity by going out of himself". (continued)
