Is It Possible To Live This Way? Vol. 3 Charity - Part II - Sacrifice

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani

Vol. 3 Charity - Part II - Sacrifice

II. Sacrifice

1. The Value of Sacrifice - 4:34

- Watershed - 5:23

a) Sacrifice Seems Contrary to Nature - 6:36

b) When It Became Interesting - 7:50

c) When It Becomes a Value for the Life of Man - 17:34

- Because of Original Sin - 21:27

2. What Sacrifice Consists Of - 23:29

3. The Truest Sacrifice is Recognizing a Presence - 30:24

- Sadness and Asking - 32:37

4. The Sacrifice of Faith and the Charism - 35:55

- Sacrifice: Assembly - 45:33

By Way of Introduction

This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery.

It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."