In my reading on the subject of intercultural I came across a lovely little work of Michel de Certeau, author whom I knew but I had not read yet never without the other (Edizioni Qiquajon. Community of Bose, Magnano (BI) 2007). I was looking for material in the field of decentralization and of empathy and did not think this could be an issue on recent discussions to find so beautiful in the Christian tradition in which the biblical figure of foreigners deserve a renewed reflection. De Certeau points out the biblical notion of xeniteia , of \u200b\u200bgrubbing, "this movement [...] is in leaving for elsewhere, such as Abraham, "without knowing where" (Heb 11: 8), to hear the unknown in the human word of God, or from elsewhere in the hope her man's face in an amazing story "(p. 15). In that sense, Monaco does not flee from the world, but it is foreign "to a land already furnished signs Christians" to leave for "a land that was still lacking" (p. 112). There is something fascinating, in these times when you try to roots in local communities all too proud of their identity, in wanting to get outside, to become foreign volunteers.
