are now three years, the office Youth Ministry in our diocese, over time suggests
Christmas holidays, the opportunity to spend some days together, living with our Italian bishop
experiences that make us reflect and meet witnesses of faith and charity. So after
Assisi and Loreto, this year our group has arrived in Turin.
The Church is known for the Turin Shroud, Don Bosco, Cottolengo, .... And Sermig.
It is this last fact that has attracted our attention in recent days.
The purpose of our being together was a shared field work with other
500 young people from all over Italy to offer our time and our energies to helping the poorest and
know the history of this place that has real naval dockyards has been transformed into an arsenal of PACE.
Sermig began as a missionary movement of the church in Turin by Ernesto Olivero, but then
thanks to the involvement of many people and the reception providential needs of many disadvantaged people
, opens at the service of those who need to become a real home of the poor.
It's appropriate to say that here the stones speak, because what happened to the walls of the Arsenale
questions and encourages everyone to make that change, the conversion in the heart. So do not
search for the only international peace as the cessation of hostilities, but you try and perhaps especially the
peace of heart.
is this peace that we saw in the faces of those young religious who have welcomed us in these days
: serene faces of boys and girls who leave all the certainties and security of a comfortable life,
have decided to return to their other gifts ... and their lives.
I say return, because the refunds is a mainstay of the Arsenal spirituality: it is
posing the question about what I hold for myself and what belongs to others but from the point of view
affordability of personal gifts from the spiritual point of view
... In this context and in this climate, we also have questioned ourselves and we went through our service.
Our days were marked by simplicity and commitment in part dedicated to services and partly
dedicated to prayer and reflection.
Some threw themselves into working for humanitarian shipments, others have done their service in
involvement of neighborhood children (totally inhabited by foreigners), and others have worked hard
accommodation in some areas of disrepair, or in helping the
children after school ... "In all these works, there has been pointed out, you help the poor even if you do not see."
reflections or "workshops" as they were called, were intended to question the
responsibility that each has in changing the world into a better world.
The slogan of these days we can find a song that has become the "smash" the
Sermig: I'm The ... HE PUT YOUR FACE, YOU PUT YOUR HEAD, YOU WILL PUT MY HEART. I
life game!
feel warm feelings of young people who participated, I felt both joy and
effort. The joy of being together, doing for others, to pray together, but also the difficulty of living
always the case, to translate into everyday life as lived in four days of service. Fatigue also in having done
an experience that has not been easy, funny, ... did not we go on trips like maybe someone
waiting! Seizing
provocations emerged from the dialogue with Ernesto Olivero believe that our bet on young
is twofold. On the one hand they are the poorest, are those who call for greater
our attention and our care. Other are however also the most important resource of the society and the Church
because they can put their face, their head, their heart to live the Gospel and the Gospel
.
beginning of this New Year wishes of peace that we welcome the experience Sermig is this:
feel the responsibility and the ability to be not just spectators, but players in the world,
aware that the world is changed from ourselves and from our "neighborhood."
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