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

Vol. 2 Hope - Part I - Hope

I. Hope

1. Certainty Regarding the Future - 10:34

- A Possession That Is Already Given - 23:24

- Certainty of Fulfillment - 25:29

2. The Dynamic of Hope - 28:48

- Desire - 29:37

- The Certainty of Fulfillment - 35:06

- The Dream and the Ideal - 36:41

- A Question that Imbues Everything - 41:22

3. Towards the Possession of an Arduous Good - 43:57

- Certainty and Desire - 47:29

- The Desire for an Arduous Good - 48:48

- The Inevitable Uncertainty - 49:28

a) A Difficult Path - 55:50

b) The Strength of Jesus - 56:55

c) Faithfulness to Belonging - 1:04:09

d) Forgiveness - 1:06:33

- The Opposite of Patience - 1:08:23

- Witness - 1:10:16

- Assembly - 1:12:00

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."