Dear friends,

On the day of his election, Pope Leo XIV encouraged us to see ourselves as “together with God and with one another” (May 8, 2025). With his unconditional love, Christ gives to us what is impossible to the world, marked by increasingly deep divisions between cultures, peoples and individuals: Christ always “goes before us” and unites us in His body which is the Church.

These words of the Pope urge us to a radical “conversion” of ourselves and the entire movement; it is the same conversion to which Fr. Giussani invited his young friends of the Péguy Center in the years when the turmoil of the ’68 demonstrations was causing a deep rupture in the Church and society, “It is through me, you, but through me as united with you in His name, that is, as united with Him, it is through us, it is through our unity, that Christ’s death and resurrection permeate the world” (Una rivoluzione di sé [A Revolution of Self], p. 252).

For this reason, I renew to all of you the invitation to participate in the Jubilee of Ecclesial Movements, Associations and New Communities on June 7 and 8 in Rome, coinciding with the Solemnity of Pentecost, as had already happened in 1998, when Fr. Giussani spoke in the presence of St. John Paul II. His successors on the Chair of Peter have always confirmed their confidence in the gift that the Holy Spirit has given to the entire Church through particular charisms as the one bestowed on Fr. Giussani, recognizing in them a “providential response” to the challenges of the new millennium.

For each one of us, this circumstance is an opportunity to personally reaffirm our “yes” to the task that the Church is pointing to us. “In the one Christ, we are one. This is the path to follow together,” Pope Leo said during his homily for the beginning of the Petrine Ministry (May 18, 2025): I ask everyone to consider the Holy Father’s invitation as being addressed to themselves. To all of you who will not be able to attend, I ask you to accompany this gesture with prayers to Mary, Mother of the Church.

See you in Rome!

In friendship,

Davide Prosperi