"No act of our conscious life is true if it does not start out from the awareness that we are sinners. “We are
here because we acknowledge first of all this truth: that we are sinners. If you feel virtuous, this is not the
place you should have come to: it would be entirely useless,” Fr. Giussani used to tell us, because “the
awareness of being sinners is the first truth of the person who acts in life and in history.”1 Sinners, that is,
needy...".

The notes from the Introduction by Fr. Julián Carrón at the Spiritual Exercises of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation.
Rimini, April 29, 2016