{"id":27263,"date":"2012-11-08T09:14:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T13:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/significant-remarks-from-the-e-3\/"},"modified":"2013-12-30T11:42:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T15:42:22","slug":"significant-remarks-from-the-e-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/significant-remarks-from-the-e-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Significant remarks from the Evangelization Synod: a catechist’s view"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\"TSpinelli.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Tommaso Spinelli, 23, a catechist of young catechumens who\u00a0works at the Catechetical Office of the Diocese of Rome, has some good things to say:<\/p>\n

The new evangelization\u00a0needs substance: it needs catechesis of a certain depth that is able\u00a0to say\u00a0something serious to our lives, but also and above all it needs lives of substance that demonstrate through actions the solidity of the Christian. It is\u00a0even more important today, now that families are disunited and often abdicate\u00a0their educative role, that priests demonstrate to the young their faithfulness\u00a0to a vocation and the possibility of choosing an alternative way of living,\u00a0better than that proposed by society.<\/p>\n

My concern\u00a0however is that these figures\u00a0of substance are becoming a minority. The priest has lost trust in the\u00a0importance of his ministry, he has lost charisma and culture. I see priests who\u00a0adapt to the dominant thought. The same is true of the liturgy, which in the\u00a0attempt to become original becomes meaningless.\u00a0Priests, I ask you to find the\u00a0courage to be yourselves.\u00a0Do not fear because where you are truly priests,\u00a0there you propose the truth of the faith without fear,\u00a0we the young will\u00a0follow<\/b>. Indeed, the words of Peter are also ours: “Lord, to whom shall we go?\u00a0You have the message of eternal life”. And we are infinitely hungry for\u00a0something eternal and true.<\/p>\n

I therefore propose:<\/p>\n

1) an increase in the formation of priests<\/strong>, not only in spiritual but also cultural terms<\/span>. Too often I see priests who have lost their role as masters of culture which had made them important for the whole of society. Today if we want to be credible and useful, we must return to having good cultural tools;<\/p>\n

2) the rediscovery<\/strong> of the\u00a0Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/i>\u00a0in its conciliar sense: in particular the first part of each session where the documents of the Council enlighten the traditional themes. The Catechism has, indeed, the wisdom of making the premise to the explanation of the Creed an inspired part of the\u00a0Dei Verbum<\/i>, in which the personalistic vision of revelation is explained, the Sacrosantum Concilium prior to the Sacraments, and the\u00a0Lumen Gentium<\/i>, which shows man created in God’s image, before the Commandments. The first part of each section of the catechism is fundamental to enable today’s man to feel faith as something that relates to him closely, and to be able to give an answer to his most profound questions;<\/p>\n

3) Finally\u00a0the liturgy:\u00a0too often it is neglected and desacralized<\/b>. It must be restored with dignity to the center of both the parochial and the territorial community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tommaso Spinelli, 23, a catechist of young catechumens who\u00a0works at the Catechetical Office of the Diocese of Rome, has some good things to say: The new evangelization\u00a0needs substance: it needs catechesis of a certain depth that is able\u00a0to say\u00a0something serious to our lives, but also and above all it needs lives of substance that demonstrate … Continue reading Significant remarks from the Evangelization Synod: a catechist’s view<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[3022,1968,2191],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29931,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27263\/revisions\/29931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}