Dear brothers in Jesus Christ the Good Shepherd, with appreciation and consideration of this your pastor and spiritual director.
Let me take the opportunity this year to offer me in your magazine to address the youth of your brotherhood on the occasion of World Youth Day to be held in Madrid in August with the presence of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI.
This important event to which you are invited to participate should be a shock to wake up your conscience on the importance of knowing and strive to be a good Christian, a lively and enthusiastic supporter of that Nazareth of Galilee some 2,000 years ago came to bring the Good News that God loves us like nobody ever loved us and love on earth, that God became one of us to make us his children, call to love God, liberate us from the bondage of sin and make us partakers of eternal life in the joyful expectation of the future resurrection.
Let me take the opportunity this year to offer me in your magazine to address the youth of your brotherhood on the occasion of World Youth Day to be held in Madrid in August with the presence of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI.
This important event to which you are invited to participate should be a shock to wake up your conscience on the importance of knowing and strive to be a good Christian, a lively and enthusiastic supporter of that Nazareth of Galilee some 2,000 years ago came to bring the Good News that God loves us like nobody ever loved us and love on earth, that God became one of us to make us his children, call to love God, liberate us from the bondage of sin and make us partakers of eternal life in the joyful expectation of the future resurrection.
This amazing and mysterious story of salvation is that which preserves and transmits the Church to all peoples of the earth. Fraternities, as part of the same, are called to facilitate the experience of faith raised by this message from the worship, charity, education and brotherhood. You young brothers are called to be true Christians, having always refer to the life of your corporation and fundamentally the parish, the term more immediately relevant to the Church in our village. Therefore ye not ashamed to confess and be Christian, striving to improve every day your way of living the Gospel.
The habit of praying every day you about God to talk to him God Prayer makes breaking into the daily life and it is getting a much more positive and enterprising.
Have Jesus as the best friend , since He, better than anyone, understands what we actually know our weaknesses, wants to become a travel companion who is always willing to listen and help.
Discovering Jesus as my only Lord makes our heart center and do not miss the sinful idolatry of egoism, consumerism, hedonism and drugs.
Reading God's Word or listen attentively during the celebration of the sacraments becomes a compass pointing the way forward effectively. I invite you to hesitate and do not be afraid to read the gospel personally, and even in your youth groups. Who really wants to follow Jesus is to know that the best way to know what He wants from us is through His Word.
The Church is our Mother in faith through preaching and sacraments. A true brother trying to live within the Church and live according to it. Are enough attacks that the Church receives from the outside so that from within we join them. The Church is our Mother, you have to love her.
The Virgin Mary is the best model of faith . With his humble life, yet tremendous teaches us that very young and can deliver a total yes to God without reservation or condition. She teaches us that we are called to a life of sin but a life with God, a holy life. Under the beloved title of pain, distress or Piedad us says it's worth to follow Jesus even if the pain can go through the soul like a sword. Owing much of my vocation to the experience of faith in an eminently Marian brotherhood as is that of the Divina Pastora de Cantillana, I must confess that the hand of the Virgin Mary with Christ can meet you and feel the enviable vocation to the priesthood.
participate in the Mass is indispensable for the Christian. Perhaps excuséis your absence with you do not know what it means. I tell you that the parish clergy and catechists are willing to explain in detail all parts, so that you are able to understand more to feel more involved in it. Of course, you must bear in mind that what we celebrate, as much as an explanation, it remains a great mystery, the mystery of faith that makes us announce the death of the Lord and proclaim his resurrection until he comes. Mass is where the Lord is in a unique way and only really present, updated his redeeming sacrifice and is offered as food. As Betis Sevilla or recognize your identity so sublime when they congregate in the stadium for a game and feel more than ever a member of a club, well, pardon the comparison, Christians recognize as such when we met in the church to participate in the celebration Mass. This is where we see the faces, vividly demonstrates the existence of a parish and built the mystical body of Christ. Even knowing of the Mass "mita", come and go experiencing with your brothers the sacrament of God's love that heals the brokenhearted and increases charity. Ah, of course, the difference with the football game is that it may be possible to mourn the loss, in the Mass but no, we always celebrate a victory and a victory unparalleled, Christ over sin and death .
Confession is an exercise in humility to grow as a person and as a believer. Recognized as you are, with their strengths and weaknesses is a sign of maturity that allows sincere repentance from the path to conversion constant in our journey of faith. Sin is a reality that affects us all and if we fail to meet serious and firm purpose of amendment or change may move away from the path of God and bitter soul. Need to be reconciled with God, the Church, with those around us and with yourself. The sacrament of Penance or Reconciliation helps us to experience the infinite mercy of God that the death of the sinner but was converted and live. Many young people recognize that through this Sacrament and clarify overcome difficult situations alone are unable to achieve. Confession overcome selfishness and arrogance, readying better to hear the Word of God and fulfill it.
The priests want to be your father in faith , for which it is necessary that you open your heart, your trust in them as friends and colleagues who want to help them solve the myriad of questions that haunt your head girl . We are not a teacher or catechist, we want to be the father to beget in you to Christ through the preaching of the Word of God, the offering of the sacraments and spiritual guidance that goes through attentive listening and friend and brotherly advice. Sorry if sometimes we are so far away and distant from our pastoral zeal. Exigidnos closeness, friendship and understanding! As the Lord with his disciples, we do not call you servants but friends.
know the faith to love more and more to Christ and his Church . Like when love sets sail further seeks to discover who loves to love even more, so it must be about our Christian faith when we confess our love for Jesus. If you really want is necessary to know Him better. The Parish provides this knowledge to you in many ways. By training parish for all groups and all ages, you can deepen various aspects relating to Christian life. I know that many of you make an effort to attend these courses, which honors you, however, still incite another to prevail in the talks early youth someday. Confirmation catechesis is also an effective means to get close to Christ and begin to feel church. With the help of catechists you can scan the spiritual wealth that contains the Word of God and the knowledge of our Catholic faith through the shared study of the Catechism or Compendium. The experience of this catechism in a group with other young people and in relation to other areas will make parish discover that faith includes not only the personal dimension but also the community. Also in your youth groups brethren must promote training arranged with prayer and coexistence.
Feeling part of the parish community and participate in the life of the transaction is a clear sign of Christian maturity, since faith is not merely a personal devotion or a unique aspect of my personal sphere. The believer is not an individualist but someone who needs the respect of a community that shares the same concerns and working together for the same cause of the Kingdom of God in the midst of our world. The parish is not just the imposing temple of the Madeleine, The building is mostly human spiritual and parishioners are all under a single faith is deepened by training, is celebrated in the liturgy and lived through the pastoral and social action of the Church. You put young people in the parish community enthusiasm and energy that sometimes kick routine. The Church needs you and as you also need. For our parish would be a source of great joy that their groups will also have your help and enthusiasm. I think right now in groups like the Health Pastoral Care, Caritas, post-communion and confirmation. How much do you need!
Living within the brotherhood is to live within the Church . It is necessary that you have very clear that civil partnerships brotherhoods are not parallel to the church but faithful associations recognized by ecclesiastical authority live as part of the parish. You can not be brother and go against the Church can not have sincere devotion to the holders of the fraternity without showing respect for the priests, can not live in brotherhood if you do not maintain a bond of unity with our bishops and His Holiness the Pope, you can not attend the church services only relevant provision forgetting brotherhood attend Sunday Mass, can not profess devotion without professing brethren by word and example of living faith and morals of the Catholic Church. Being a brother is not incompatible with being a man or woman of the Church, on the contrary, the latter is what gives meaning to the former.
The youth group is for something else to clean silver for worship and processions of the brotherhood. It is a healthy and commendable aspiration that guilds can have groups of young people who work with the Governing Board on the proper functioning of the corporation. What would a guild without your smile and no mess your youth? What would you do without your entrepreneurial proposals and without your tireless support? A young group opens the windows of the building brotherhood processions for it to air and moisture is not damaged by the stagnation and gentrification of its members accountable. I firmly believe that you serve for much more than clean, take out candlesticks or incense. Your joy, creativity, helpfulness, cheerfulness, sportsmanship and humble and sincere faith is the most interesting thing you can bring to your guild. Between you strengthen your desire to know more and more like Christ, to live in fraternity entusiasmaros, and make your guild a church home where you live and share the faith with courage and good intentions.
Coexistence fosters unity, as we have seen in the gathering of young brothers. Together we celebrate the Eucharist, we share the table, we laughed and we shook hands. This sign of unity must be a stimulus for your elders, a key reference when coordinating the common interests between them.
Dear friends, I encourage you to consider all this for the common good of our parish and your guild. The Church expects much from you. Christ invites you to follow him and know him. Do not be afraid of it! As the disciple John, Jesus calls you to rest your head on his chest to feel your heart beat I contagiéis divine love which makes all things new. I pray that He bless your dreams, your homes and your studies. I implore the powerful intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary to be good, caring pastor I always keep in the fold of the Church. Álvaro Román
Villalón
Pastor of Santa Maria Magdalena de Arahal
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