The sacred space in the contemporary world: past, present and future

Second Panel Discussion

Abstract

It seems to me that the fundamental problem of church building is not so much the fulfillment of the liturgy, which must be taken for granted, but the ability to evoke the mystery: the conviction that in those particular buildings -which are why they are sacred- God dwells, physically dwells God. And that certainty must lead to work in a particularly careful way. I believe that when you receive someone in your house, and it is someone who is valued, someone important, you clean everything you can, make the arrangements that may take time without doing. I think that with that attitude of a certain humility, if you want, that also claims excellence-we saw in examples that have come out these days, even this morning, is with which to consider the future, which is the last part of the title of the round table.