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car la seule et unique vérité est en Dieu. Dieu est la Vérité. De ce fait, aucune
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ALLOCUTIONES
I
Ad catholicos voluntarios.*
Dear Brother Bishops,
Dear Friends,
I am grateful for the opportunity to greet you as you meet under
the auspices of the Pontifical Council ''Cor Unum'' in this European Year
of Volunteering.
Let me begin by thanking Cardinal Robert Sarah for the kind words he
has addressed to me on your behalf. I would also like to express my deep
gratitude to you and, by extension, to the millions of Catholic volunteers who
contribute, regularly and generously, to the Church's charitable mission
throughout the world. At the present time, marked as it is by crisis and
uncertainty, your commitment is a reason for confidence, since it shows that
goodness exists and that it is growing in our midst. The faith of all Catholics
is surely strengthened when they see the good that is being done in the name
of Christ.1
For Christians, volunteer work is not merely an expression of good will. It
is based on a personal experience of Christ. He was the first to serve human-
ity, he freely gave his life for the good of all. That gift was not based on our
merits. From this we learn that God gives us himself. More than that: Deus
Caritas est - God is love, to quote a phrase from the First Letter of Saint
John 2 which I employed as the title of my first Encyclical Letter. The ex-
perience of God's generous love challenges us and liberates us to adopt the
same attitude towards our brothers and sisters: ''You received with paying,
give without pay''.3 We experience this especially in the Eucharist when the
Son of God, in the breaking of bread, brings together the vertical dimension
of his divine gift with the horizontal dimension of our service to our brothers
and sisters.
* Die 10 Novembris 2011. 1 Cfr Philem 6. 2 4:8 3 Mt 10:8.