Regenerations

The Kingdom belongs to all the poor

Regenerations/13 - Both Saint Francis and Job are inhabitants in it. Just as children. by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 25/10/2015 “Ah you don't want to, you're scared of poverty, you don't want to go to the market with worn-out shoes and come back with the same old dress. My love, we...

The Gift of the Second Name

Regenerations/12 - Believe it or not, in working for peace you can meet the Father by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 18/10/2015 “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager long...

The serious happiness of tears

Regenerations/11 - We all go through suffering and can rise again by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 11/10/2015 “Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance,  and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy;  I will comfort them, and give them g...

The lesser known beatitudes

Regenerations/10 - are written in the lives of the righteous just as they are in the Gospel by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 04/10/2015 “If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction." The Book of...

The persecution of the not-yet

Regenerations/9 - Laws, just like clothes, often get tight and worn-out by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 27/09/2015 “All that does not regenerate, degenerates." Edgar Morin, Education for the Future There exists the justice of the already and the justice of the not-yet. Justice grows, evol...

The intelligence of meek hands

Regenerations/8 - The logic of the beatitudes is revealed in trials of life and in struggling businesses by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 20/09/2015 The Beatitudes are not virtues, they are not an ethical discourse about human actions. Instead, they are the recognition that the poor, the me...

Purity is a collapsed wall

Regenerations/7 - Beyond the times of the sand, to the house of the Beatitudes by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 13/09/2015 The poverty of joy that Europe and the West has been suffering for long now is a direct result of forgetting the logic and wisdom of the Beatitudes. The Beatitudes embo...

Mercy, the Cement of Civilization

Regenerations/6 – It makes our "forever-s" valid. And manages to give itself as a reward by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 06/09/2015 “I see and I find my own light in the other, the true Reality of myself, the real me in the other (perhaps buried or secretly disguised for shame), and once I...

Abusing the Illusion of Immunity

Regenerations/5 - Businesses, society, family: less and less time for compassion by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 30/08/2015 “How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness n...

The Mighty Seeds of Generosity

Regenerations/4 - Human beings give a lot only if they are free to give all by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 23/08/2015 "Real kindness is an exchange with essentially unpredictable consequences. It is a risk precisely because it mingles our needs and desires with the needs and desires of ot...

The Wonderful Song of Humility

Regenerations/3 - A virtue that is not loved by economy, but is key for the future by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 09/08/2015 “...and when I see the stars burn up in heaven, I ask myself: Why all these lights? What does the endless air do, and that deep eternal blue? What does this e...

The Sad Spirit of Incentives

Regenerations/2 - No company can domesticate the person's moral strength by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 02/08/2015 "The man who wisheth to reap the fruits of virtue is a trader of virtue." Mahabharata, sacred book of Hinduism Organisations cannot have the most important virtues they need....

Let's Replant the Forest

Regenerations/1 - Values are not to be manufactured and challenges should be acknowledged by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 26/07/2015 “Everywhere in the world, human beings want the same thing: to be recognized with dignity for what they are and what they do. Companies like ours are in the ...