We have a lot to narrate about the journey that we live every day with the young people, within the perspective of the next Synod.
The Bishops will reflect on the theme “Young people, the faith and vocational discernment”, by gathering suggestions and pastoral experiences from all over the world. We also give voice to this journey of the church that we share from within, side by side to many young people we approach.
After three years of my stay at Djalingo, I make an evaluation of the experience of “grace” that the Lord has given me especially at the female formation centre.
The novices Valeria and Francesca tell us about the special experience in the accompaniment of young people whom they meet every week at the railway station of Monza, together with some of the PIME seminarians.
I am at Shek Lei community in Hong Kong now, almost for five years, which is within the campus of Pope Paul VI College for women, but the rhythm of the study of the students continues to astonish me. During the exams the girls are very worried and study until late at night. The competitive environment in which they grow pushes them to be always the best, making them difficult to accept themselves ...
A boy named Jefferson is grown up in the slum. We knew him from his childhood. He used to come to our house. A family “destroyed” or perhaps never existed. His parents were separated and their children were abandoned. The elder brother sold drugs and became drug addict. When he was 15 years old, he was killed by traffickers of drug addicts a few months before becoming a father for his family. ...
Taking care of every young person and no one is excluded is an invitation of Edimar, the center for the street children founded by Fr. Maurizio Bezzi PIME in Yaoundé. It has lasted for years history. The mission also recently attracted me. Surpassed by the threshold of Edimar, the mission becomes a narration of a mystery that is called life. And that’s how I was taken up by the story of Vin...