"Monasticism includes, along with the culture of the word, a culture of work, without which the development of Europe, its ethos and its formation of the world are unthinkable". Along with the "culture of the word", according to the Pope, our continent needs a "culture of work", and it is along this binomial that the Pope’s speech went on at Collége des Bernardins. "This ethos specified the Holy Father, lingering on the meaning of the "culture of work" should however include the will to turn work and the determination of history by man into a cooperation with the Maker, taking its measure from Him". "Whenever this measure fails and man raises himself as a God-shaped maker warned the Pontiff , the formation of the world can easily turn into its destruction". The Christian God, then, is "different" from the god of the Greek-Roman world, which "did not know any Maker God" and whose supreme divinity "could not soil its hands with the reaction of the matter". In the Christian approach, instead, "God works; He keeps working in and on the history of man. In Christ, He enters as a Person in the tiring work of history. God Himself is the Maker of the world, and the Creation is not over yet". (continued)
