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PRESENTATION OF THE CONFERENCE

MUSIC AND ART IN THE SERVICE OF THE SPIRIT

INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MUSIC EVENT
- Foggia May 29, 2010 -
Hall School of Economics and Business

was May 23 of Last year, when in this very place, inaugurating the 25th anniversary of the Community Dominum Magnificat, we have created a cultural conference in which he reflected on the figure of Mary of Nazareth, not as "Mother of the Lord" but as a creature of God in which they are sublimated human and the beauty of the feminine genius. A Congress that the number of full-bodied participants and feedback received went far beyond expectations.
remember with affection the greetings of the prof. Pastor spoke on behalf of the University of Foggia, who with great astonishment he confessed that he had never seen this room and hall so full a participation as concerned, as well as the intervention of the Episcopal Vicar of the Archdiocese of Foggia- Cattle, Archbishop Philip later that, bringing the greetings of the nost Archbishop Francesco Pio Tamburrino, invited us to continue the road taken by offering reflections on Christian themes that they could find the interest not only of the ecclesiastical world, but also the various environments in the world, so to speak, lay.
If today we are here, dear Don Philip, why is not this call been heeded ...
So, if last year we combine beauty and genius of women, this year we decided to stop our reflection on the combination of beauty and art (and between different forms of art speak, above all, singing and music, but not limited to ) course from what it is about Christian thought.
Art is not an end in itself, but art to affirm the "reasons of the spirit" and therefore art in the service of man in his path that brings him closer to God
"The beauty for beauty, like art for ' art, not part of the Christian perspective. " - Said the Holy Father Benedict XVI in a private hearing to Artists in the November 2009 - "True beauty is a path toward the Transcendent, the Mystery at last, towards God, art in all its forms, when compared with the great questions of existence with key issues from which the meaning of life, can take on a religious path and become a deep inner reflection and spirituality. "
Dear friends, today we try to do just this way, short but intense, inner reflection and spirituality and I'm happy - I say in the behalf of the Community - which at this pace on the "path of beauty", we will be accompanied by guests and will certainly provide competent their contribution to the achievement of an objective sense as "challenging."
Along with all of you, therefore, I am pleased to accept and welcome to: Bishop
Antonio Parisi, liturgical music consultant for the Italian Episcopal Conference;
Amerigo Vecchiarelli, Editor in Chief of SAT 2000, which will moderate the Table Round to be attended by the following artists: Michael
Paulicelli, singer, actor, author, inter alia, of the famous musical Forza Venite Gente,
Leann Albrecht and Carl, from Tennessee (USA), musicians and singers of Integrity Music International;
Tony Bungaro, songwriter, and Mario Rosini, singer, both with different interests
at the Sanremo Festival, the Master
Leserri Graziano, director of the group of gospel music Wake Up Gospel Project.
Lastly, I greet with special affection, dear friend and long-standing, Luciana Leone, Musicology and editorial director of Editions Charismatic Renewal.
Today's event, as you've got to take the invitation will not end only with the Congress because, after a technical break of one hour after completion of the work, namely the 20.30 to our guests, along with other artists (actors, mimes, dancers) will perform in a magnificent performance that will be a varied exhibition of artistic talent on this stage today. I strongly believe that the performance this evening will have the power to raise up among us and many others will be added, a genuine spiritual experience that can approach the beauty, the one with the "B", that is, to Christ, the "Good" Shepherd. Experience the beauty, to experience God! Here the objective of today's event.
So, how often they say on television before a commercial break, I say: "Stay with us and do not regret it."
The French philosopher Simone Weil [1909-1943] was able to write: "In everything that awakens within us the pure and authentic feeling of beauty, there is really God's presence There is a kind of incarnation of God in the world, and the beauty is the sign. The nice thing is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible. "
So here today the opportunity to experience through this dual event of the conference and cultural art event," really the presence of God ", for once not in a church or in front of a sacred symbol, but through an epiphany of her beauty, trying to catch her "breath" of life in a musical note, a poem, a text, a mime, but in only a glance or a smile.
And speaking of "breath", allow me to grant me a short and beautiful text of the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke entitled THE BREATH OF GOD:
not waiting for God to descend upon you / and you say "I".
did not make any sense that God who says / her omnipotence.
Feel you breath in, so he has filled you / from you breathe and six. When you do not know why
t'avvampa the heart / He who is in you is expressed.
May each of you today can experience a new wonder and, at the end of this event, meet with the heart "flushed" from His presence.
Thank you all, and on behalf of the entire Community Dominum Magnificat, welcome.

Corrado Di Gennaro
Moderator General