ORATORY AND YOUNG BOYS MEET SOUL
Oratory children and young people are finding a soul, encountering Christ, but to meet him, one must nurture in children the desire of God ..
One Oratorio enough time to do a "PRAA, a priest, an ESC" ("a meadow, a priest, the services"), now we need something more! I personally think that not enough new ones, modern styles: the priest that matters. Or, if the priest can not be the educator or educators, who are on time, to give the environment that atmosphere of family, of which - today more than yesterday - they need our boys and girls.
Oratorio, welcoming place serene and joyful, to proclaim the Gospel. The mass of young people and adults, for whom there was no mention of the Gospel, is increasing. Not only that Jesus himself is disappearing from the horizon of culture and social organization, from the consciousness of young intellectuals who are often influenced by Italian and foreign, who speak of the uselessness of religion, the futility of God, rooting Christ from the historical concreteness to make a character from myth, comparable to a revolutionary or a dreamer of many religious teachers, without safeguarding the divine reality, Christ is presented as a child of God!
I wondered, in the weekly column that I keep on a Milan daily, why so much bitterness and arrogance of these secular prophets, who are completely unknown to the lives of those who donated in the name of God, has been working the service of others, without gain, suffering and dying at a loss, "stupidity that the world does not understand, or excuse, or tolerate."
destroying God, putting it back into the tomb, with thoughts of man, extinguish hope, take away the foundations for life and love: "The exclusion of God, religion and virtue in public life ultimately leads to a truncated view of man and society, and therefore a reductionist view of man and his destiny, "said Benedict XVI in his recent trip to England, thinking about the warnings of the twentieth century atheism. In some regions of Spain, the worst insult to a person and apostrophes launched with a "you are without a soul" or "motherless" a world "disheartened" is the world without God, without religion.
Oratory children and young people are finding a soul, encountering Christ, in catechesis, in the game, thousands of initiatives in suggests that the imagination of educators, community Oratory, the catechists and the priest who is the heart of the Oratory.
But to meet him, one must nurture in children the desire of God, and here the difficulties are so many: there are guys who come in without Oratorio memories, illiterate people of God, the Gospel, the Church. Others come from the family motivated: "It's Oratory, which there teach you to be a good boy." They do not say a "good Christian", but that's something to identify with the goodness that one can learn the Oratory, almost by osmosis, by living with peers and teachers "vouchers". The famous "good examples" of the past have not lost their strength.
The other difficulty comes from modern technology: the enormous potential that have run the risk of caging kids. I know the teachers at the school. In oratory, group life and play, kids can find the right balance between technology and real relationships, true, that fill the living, removing any loneliness.
Oratorio In addition, you can easily live in a culture that takes away the boys and girls from models that are "image", which seems a good thing that we should reach each cost. Oratorio In addition, witnesses are explained to students of life and successful people in the world of entertainment and sport, which resemble in dress, language, fashion. It does not really take the speech of those who are adjusting to "what we're all" to "what all". And this depends on the charisma of educators, the relationship they have with families and parents. If families are absent or, worse, are transgressive, weaken the kids, make them more easy victims of the world around them and the influence of the Oratory itself becomes discontinuous, hurried and difficult. Starting the new pastoral year, it is necessary that everyone become aware of their responsibilities to give children the seeds of hope for the future.
by donboscoland.it
