When we are young in formation some writers have a profound effect on our religious development. Recently I read the Archdiocese of Munich, Germany, will soon open a cause for the beatification of the theologian ROMANO GUARDINI, one of my favorite spiritual masters.
He was born in Verona , Italy in 1885 but soon after his birth, his family moved to the city of Mainz , Germany University of Munich St. Augustine Mainz.
Father Guardini taught at the University of Berlin University of Tübingen and the University of Munich
He had a powerful influence on the thought of both Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI. The former once considered making Father Guardini the subject of his doctoral dissertation.
According to Bishop Robert Barron of Los Angeles province of Argentina , Jorge Mario Bergoglio (now Pope Francis) began his doctoral studies in Germany
Father Guardini's master work, The Spirit of the Liturgy, was the inspiration for a book of the same title by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. But the book he is perhaps most famous for, and one of our favorites is The Lord.
Romano Guardini was one of the first to offer to the modern world a vision of the Church nurturing the flourishing of free personality within community.
“The Church is not an institution devised and built at table, but a living reality. She lives along the course of time by transforming Herself, like any living being, yet Her nature remains the same. At Her heart is Christ.”
He died in Munich
