For many of us, especially students, this period begins in the big time ordinariness, because you take it with school activities and educational. Even in our parish communities this is the month after a long period of rest is programmed and distributed learning activities for all ages fascedi. In fact, on 4 October for our parish also part of the new catechism of children, preparing children for the Sacrament of Reconciliation and Communion, preparing young people for the sacrament of Confirmation, adult education and youth of Catholic Action and for this new pastoral year we are planning a special course for young people of faith formation. Yes, for the young people of Ravello, which are more distant from the parish communities to those young people who have many things to tell us that the community should pay utmost attention and care. We want to listen to their difficulties, their needs, what they expect from us. All of us teachers, catechists, parents must listen to our young people today who are increasingly tempted to lock in their world, as they are approved by the culture surface where they are immersed. We must speak not as a premise of listening to the specific mission of this year, but as a way of implementing it. In fact, listening is an act by which we can establish a positive relationship between people, a relationship in which you can accept the witness, in word or deed, the newness of the Gospel. Listening to our young people, not just an expedient instrument, but it becomes a precise for our parish pastoral decision. We educators are responsible for taking appropriate interpretive categories, to help us to know and understand their questions, as always, their cultures, their languages \u200b\u200bincreasingly diverse and new tools with which to express themselves today. All of these categories that belong to young people and how often forms are not easy to interpret the world of adults. All we have to avoid rejection of the attitudes of their thinking and their culture, we come to discern the truth that these cultures are today in the guise of the new, just as we have taught our Bishops in the document Teaching young people to faith. In the worldly life and often distracted from our friends there to pull out a hidden truth, discover, and accept it is crucial for our community. The whole community is called to do a youth ministry, we are all challenged to give a hand to young people. It is the community that calls young people to faith and not the individual catechist as has charisma alone is not sufficient in this important task. Everyone, starting families, pastors, catechists, youth leaders in the industry and even the people to worship and have to do youth ministry. Our parish, in the places, people and activities must be a welcoming home for the young man who passes by. Should be the place of religious listening to be implemented, not only in relation to the written Word of God, but to the Word which God speaks today through the personal and collective history through the generations and that it will happen. We need to decipher the mystery of Scripture divine in man and its history, but we also need to be able to read the humanity in all that he has good, valid, and beautiful to accommodate all its relevance to the Word of God that resonates in our present history. Our beautiful cathedral should be, for us to Ravello, the conjugation of two plays so as to make space in which effective ads the Gospel to all, even the youngest. If we consider that the Word of God is the man Jesus, then it is clear that the meeting today with his living person can not go through the physical encounter with the faces of men and women: those who belong to more closely Church but also of all those in whom Christ has given himself this: the poor, the poor, the marginalized. A place suitable for this task but not enough to proclaim the Good News to the end, you also need it to be a witness, we need young people who have the courage to know how to witness to Christ, as he urged the Pope Benedict XVI during his visit Apostolic in Paris, on 12 September. The Pope told the young people present at the vigil and all of us that we followed him through the television: you are in the age of generosity. You need to speak of Christ to all around you, your families and your friends, wherever you study, work or play. Do not be afraid! Have the courage to live the Gospel and the boldness to proclaim it. Therefore I encourage you to find ways of proclaiming God to all around you, basing your testimony on the power of the Spirit invoked in prayer. Bring the Good News to the young people of your age, and to others. They know the difficulty in relationships, worry and uncertainty in face of work and study. Face suffering and make the experience unique moments of joy. Witnesses of God, because, as young people, you are fully a part of the Catholic community through your Baptism and our common profession of faith (cf. Eph 4, 5). The Church is counting on you, I want to tell! These words are addressed so deep you too young to Ravello: Do \u200b\u200bnot open your heart only to narrow self-interest and fun of this company, but spalancatelo to true joy that Jesus Christ is accepting our invitation will have the opportunity to know us better , listen and follow along the path of discovering the true meaning of brotherhood. Joseph
Milo
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