This very Gospel was read on 21 September 1953, the day Jorge Mario Bergoglio realised he was going to become a priest. After introducing the topic, talking about the need for continuous contact with the Gospel, the Pope presented one of the Gospel scenes that touches him most, that of the call of Matthew, the tax collector to whom Jesus turns His gaze. The start of the programme was preceded by a special talk by Italian actor, Roberto Benigni, who spoke about the joyful face of Jesus, and described the face of Mary as portrayed in Raphael's painting entitled " The Sistine Madonna," preserved in Dresden, Germany. Renato Cerisola directed and was responsible for photography, while Michelangelo Palmacci was responsible for the original music. This is how the Pope began a programme entitled Volti dei Vangeli ('Faces of the Gospels'), which was curated by the Dicastery for Communication in collaboration with the Vatican Apostolic Library, the Vatican Museums, and Italian television’s Rai Cultura, and aired Easter Sunday evening on Italy’s state-run TV channel RAI1 throughout Italy. “Redemption was not done by doctrines, but by a Person.” Even if you know all the dogmas, but do not have contact with the Gospel, you will only be Catholic in your head and not in your heart. Being a Catholic, being a Christian, insists Pope Francis, requires contact with Jesus. If you do not have contact with the living Christ, the one of the Gospel,” Pope Francis says, you will have contact with ideas, doctrines and ideologies about the Gospel, that may or may not have come from Jesus. That is why I insist that we have direct contact with the Gospels.
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