{"id":72419,"date":"2022-04-01T08:13:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T06:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scolopi.org\/bajo-la-guia-del-espiritu-santo-primeras-intuiciones-tras-el-48o-capitulo-general\/"},"modified":"2022-04-01T09:29:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T07:29:30","slug":"under-the-guidance-of-the-holy-spirit-first-intuitions-after-the-48th-general-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scolopi.org\/en\/under-the-guidance-of-the-holy-spirit-first-intuitions-after-the-48th-general-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. First intuitions after the 48th General Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;3_4,1_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.14.9&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]\n<p>Over the next few months, we will be receiving, piece by piece, various information and materials relating to the General Chapter of the Order, recently held in Mexico. I would like to dedicate this fraternal letter to share with all of you some first impressions, perhaps in the form of a &#8220;disorderly listing&#8221; of ideas, options and decisions. Here we go.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The essential gift of the Spirit is Jesus Christ<\/em><\/strong>. The Chapter was convened under a most demanding and inspiring motto: <em>&#8220;Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit&#8221;.<\/em> Our assembly challenged us with clarity and prophecy: we are called to walk our journey with Christ Jesus, the Lord, at the centre. We are invited to follow Him day by day, and to shape our life according to Him, as a permanent process of Piarist identity of vocation. We are deeply grateful for this, and we wish to bring to all the Pious Schools a renewed call to be witnesses to the Lord, hoping to be credible, because what we proclaim we live with simple and growing authenticity.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Renewing our Calasanctian commitments. <\/em><\/strong>Our General Chapter strongly underlined the importance of moving forward on the basis of consolidated Keys of Life, but which demand new responses and offer new nuances. Among these: to continue to <em>build the Pious Schools,<\/em> which are an instrument of the Kingdom; to care for the <em>faithful living of the vocation received,<\/em> in order to become the Piarists that children and young people need; to <em>nourish our sending on mission,<\/em> to incarnate a ministry that is increasingly necessary, so that our way of serving children and young people grows in identity and in capacity of new responses; a <em>Pastoral Care for Vocations <\/em>based on prayer, on bearing witness, and on an increasingly active commitment to propose, accompany and welcome; an <em>Initial Formation<\/em> understood in an integral way, capable of accompanying all the dimensions of our vocation; a <em>Community Life<\/em> understood as a following of the Lord and a humble witness to his centrality; an understanding of our life as a process of growing fidelity, this being the key to our <em>Ongoing Formation:<\/em> the process; a dynamic of <em>Participation<\/em> based on the shared construction of a Piarist Christian Community in which the different vocations come together, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Walking along renewed paths<\/em><\/strong>. New Keys of Life have appeared, bearing with them challenges and demands, and which become calls that require us to take new steps. We accept the call to <em>synodality<\/em> as a path of listening, accompaniment, discernment and co-responsibility; we perceive our growing <em>interculturality<\/em> as a challenge of communion out of diversity and inculturation out of the Gospel; we assume the challenge of the <em>integral sustainability<\/em> of the Pious Schools, asking the Spirit for the same patience and daring with which Calasanz founded them.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>We feel strongly sent to the Mission<\/em><\/strong>. We understand well the vision of Calasanz, who insisted, with an integral understanding of Piarist life, that the exercise of ministry itself is a path to fulfilment. We have received the challenging call to walk with young people to build together paths of evangelisation for the children, young people and families who live among us. We assume that the promotion of the Calasanctian identity of all our mission areas must always be a task to be promoted, and always in a shared way with all the people who are co-responsible for the Piarist mission. And we have reaffirmed the call to the mission among the poor, by means of a Pious Schools in Departure and missionary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>A new &#8220;photograph&#8221; of the Pious Schools: the Spirit encourages us to look at our reality in a renewed way<\/em><\/strong>. The &#8220;picture&#8221; was different: religious chapter members, the Council of the Fraternity and the young people with whom we walk and with whom we deeply share the Mission. It is good to understand that this is so because the Spirit has called us together. And we welcome the newness of this experience as a gift that we must take care of and strengthen. We want the Order and the Fraternity to walk together in all the dynamics with which we build the dream of Calasanz. We want the Youth to be present in the real life of the Pious Schools, and to help us not to believe that we have already given all the answers they need. We want those who have a vocation to share the Piarist Mission to be a real part of the new picture. And we want this to be our way of living and working in all our presences.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Some decisions and changes that are incorporated into our internal legislation. <\/em><\/strong>Among them: the challenge of the protection of minors and the fight against sexual abuse, abuse of conscience and abuse of power; the dignity of women; the fight against clericalism; the integral accompaniment of young priests; the clues for a renewed Initial Formation; the development of the Piarist Presence model; the promotion of the Directory of Participation; the value of communities shared between religious and laity; the Piarist ministries; the systematic development of the Pastoral Care of Vocations; greater agility and plurality in the configuration of provincial congregations; the importance of Communication, etc. Each of these changes needs a proper presentation, no doubt; the time will come.<strong><em>\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Spirit has also left us some concerns that we must try to answer. <\/em><\/strong>We want to be concerned about the <em>option for the poor,<\/em> which was what drove Calasanz to engender the Order; we want the challenge of an <em>authentic Piarist living,<\/em> woven of prayer, work and community, to be always present in our efforts; we want our <em>fight against clericalism and worldliness<\/em> to be real and committed; we want the Pious Schools to be full of <em>care for the little ones and for the vulnerable,<\/em> and always on the side of those who suffer; we want <em>the calls we receive from our Church<\/em> to resound as invitations to conversion and commitment; we want, in short, to live the vocation we have received as an offering to the God of calls.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>To walk with the young people: <\/em><\/strong>The Chapter invites us to share our dreams; to build together; to accompany in truth; to live our faith in deep openness and communion; to promote new missions with them; to make a synodal journey; to let Calasanz transform them and us, etc. The Chapter invites us to do this because it lived and experienced it. We wish to welcome the three cries pronounced in the 48CG by the group of young people, who affirmed these three convictions inspired by Calasanz and by their lived experience: to be more missionary; to live the realities of young people by promoting their utopia and their projects, discerning their needs in a generous accompaniment; to think again how we live up to the foundation of every pastoral approach: Jesus Christ. Let us truly live from Christ.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Spirit cannot be controlled<\/em><\/strong>. We can try to give names to his inspirations, but others will appear. They will appear in the coming months and years, in the processes of the reception of the Chapter, in the processes of the synodal journey, in the Chapter processes of the demarcations, in the fraternal meetings, even, hopefully, in the meetings of the General Congregation. A Chapter is not an isolated event, but a process of discernment and life.<\/p>\n<p>I am aware that each of these options and decisions needs to be more widely and accurately presented in order to be well understood and received within the Pious Schools. Some of them will be the object of study in future <em>Salutatio<\/em>s. For the moment, I have wanted to offer you an initial, highly concise presentation, which may help to begin the process of reception of the Chapter, which will be a long and active one. To help in that process, I would like to restate three dynamics that I believe help in the process of Chapter reception:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>To receive the Chapter, taking a central attitude, <\/em><\/strong>out of a conviction that clearly situates us in the present moment of the Order. And that attitude is none other than to try to live and walk with Jesus at the centre of our life, our mission and our options. Only in this way will we be able to welcome this Chapter as an invitation to <em>&#8220;build the Pious Schools&#8221;. <\/em>\u00a0This way of positioning ourselves helps us to understand ourselves as people co-responsibly committed to the construction of an Order that is more alive, more missionary, more faithful and capable of new responses. This commits us all. We invite young people not to repeat our models, but to build with us by contributing their sensitivity. We propose an initial formation that seeks a more meaningful consecrated life, not one without horizons. We work with and for lay people, not so that they may be our collaborators, but so that they may build with us, co-responsibly, in accordance with their own vocation. All this helps us to understand ourselves as humble workers in this most fertile harvest, which belongs to all. We work by vocation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Purifying our risks and taking advantage of our opportunities<\/em><\/strong>. As we receive the Chapter, we all have <em>risks and opportunities<\/em>. The former must be overcome, the latter seized. Among the first, let me mention a few: the temptation to <em>indifference<\/em> (this is not for me, it has nothing to do with my daily life and my needs), the temptation to<em> dumbing down <\/em>(&#8220;more papers, as always&#8221;), <em>simplification<\/em> (what matters about the Chapters are the elections, the rest stays on the shelves), <em>manipulation<\/em>\u00a0 (bring the water to our mill, instead of thinking about what I should change), <em>provincialism<\/em> (let&#8217;s see what we have to do with this Chapter in our Province, instead of thinking about what we are called to, as a Province, with this Chapter), <em>ignorance<\/em> (not even taking the trouble to read, because I already know everything and I have other more important things to do). There are many examples that we can add, but no need to do so, because the essential thing is to be aware that we all have risks in the reception, because normally things are received according to the receiver, and that is not easy to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>We also have opportunities. It is good that we know how to seize them. As simple suggestions, I would like to point out a few: <em>to enrich our sense of Order,<\/em> trying to understand what concerns and occupies us, <em>to strengthen and update our understanding of some central elements of our charism<\/em> about which we can read very interesting documents, <em>to accept a small exercise of displacement in one\u2019s life,<\/em> thinking about what I can collaborate in order to make possible the great common challenges we have as Pious Schools, to organise a good <em>plan of formation<\/em> in the community, working on some of the Chapter documents or to have a community retreat centred on what the decisions of the Chapter can mean for us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Also living this time in a dynamic of prayer<\/em><\/strong><em>. <\/em>\u00a0Our communities prayed intensely before and during the General Chapter, asking the Lord that our six-yearly assembly would be an &#8220;<em>opportunity of the Spirit<\/em>.&#8221; I think we should not stop doing so. We need to put the reception of the Chapter in the prayer life of our communities and works, as well as in our personal ones. Little by little, like the rain that soaks the earth \u2013 if it is constant \u2013, our prayer will transform us according to God&#8217;s will. Therefore, I remind you of one of the petitions that are part of the prayer that was prepared for the Chapter.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Come, Holy Spirit<\/em><\/strong><em>. Help us to contemplate life and the world with the eyes of Jesus. Make our humble and faithful disciples of the Lord, like Mary, our Mother, and like Calasanz, our founder. Through their intercession, may the General Chapter of our Order be welcomed and received for the Glory of God and the Benefit of our Neighbour.<\/em> <em>\u00a0AMEN. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I end this fraternal letter with a simple story from the Chapter, which I think clearly captures what I want to say in this letter. During the Chapter we had the opportunity to listen to many testimonies by the chapter members themselves, who told us about the projects of the Order, the new presences, etc. One of them was from Fr Roberto Dalusung, from Asia Pacific. I know he will forgive me for mentioning him explicitly. Roberto explained to us the Project of the Piarist Pastoral Care of Vocations in Asia, especially in countries where we are not present. His presentation was a testimony of vocation, in which many of the values we talked about in the work sessions were mixed in. Listening to him we could see what love for the Order and for Calasanz meant, the strength of prayer, the audacity in the proposal, the serene trust in the God of the calls, the learning from the generosity of the young people, the work for the construction of the Pious Schools, the persistent patience of the one who knows that the master of the processes is Another,\u00a0 and many more things that are in the depths of the soul of each Piarist. Perhaps that is why the ovation with which his testimony was received would never end. Thank you, Roberto!<\/p>\n<p>Receive a fraternal embrace<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Pedro Aguado Sch.P.<\/p>\n<p>Father General<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_button button_url=&#8221;https:\/\/scolopi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/salutatio-20220401-ing-1.pdf&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; button_text=&#8221;Download the letter \/ pdf&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.14.9&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_button=&#8221;on&#8221; button_text_color=&#8221;#0C71C3&#8243; button_border_color=&#8221;#0C71C3&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few months, we will be receiving, piece by piece, various information and materials relating to the General Chapter of the Order, recently held in Mexico. 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Vamos all\u00e1.<\/p><p><strong><em>El don esencial del Esp\u00edritu es Jesucristo<\/em><\/strong>. El Cap\u00edtulo fue convocado desde un lema muy exigente e inspirador: \u201c<em>Bajo la gu\u00eda del Esp\u00edritu Santo<\/em>\u201d. Nuestra asamblea nos plante\u00f3 el reto con claridad y profetismo:\u00a0 somos llamados a caminar desde un \u00fanico centro, Cristo Jes\u00fas, el Se\u00f1or. Somos invitados a seguirle d\u00eda a d\u00eda, y a configurar nuestra vida desde \u00c9l, como un proceso permanente de identidad vocacional escolapia. Estamos profundamente agradecidos por ello, y deseamos llevar al conjunto de las Escuelas P\u00edas una renovada llamada a ser testigos del Se\u00f1or, esperando ser cre\u00edbles, porque lo que anunciamos lo vivimos con sencilla y creciente autenticidad.<\/p><p><strong><em>Renovar nuestras apuestas calasancias<\/em><\/strong>. Nuestro Cap\u00edtulo General subray\u00f3 con fuerza la importancia de seguir adelante desde unas Claves de Vida consolidadas, pero que exigen nuevas respuestas y ofrecen nuevos matices. Entre ellas: continuar <em>construyendo las Escuelas<\/em> P\u00edas, que son un instrumento del Reino; cuidar la <em>vivencia fiel de la vocaci\u00f3n<\/em> recibida, para poder llegar a ser los escolapios que los ni\u00f1os y j\u00f3venes necesitan; <em>alimentar nuestro env\u00edo en misi\u00f3n,<\/em> para encarnar un ministerio que es cada vez m\u00e1s necesario, de modo que nuestro modo de servir a los ni\u00f1os y j\u00f3venes crezca en identidad y en capacidad de nuevas respuestas; una <em>Pastoral Vocacional<\/em> basada en la oraci\u00f3n, en el testimonio, y en el compromiso crecientemente activo para proponer, acompa\u00f1ar y acoger; una <em>Formaci\u00f3n Inicial<\/em> comprendida de modo integral, capaz de acompa\u00f1ar todas las dimensiones de nuestra vocaci\u00f3n; una <em>Vida Comunitaria<\/em> comprendida como seguimiento del Se\u00f1or y testimonio humilde de su centralidad; una comprensi\u00f3n de nuestra vida como un proceso de creciente fidelidad, siendo \u00e9sta la clave de nuestra <em>Formaci\u00f3n Permanente<\/em>: el proceso; una din\u00e1mica de <em>Participaci\u00f3n<\/em> basada en la construcci\u00f3n compartida de una Comunidad Cristiana Escolapia en la que confluyan las diversas vocaciones, etc.<\/p><p><strong><em>Transitar por sendas renovadas<\/em><\/strong>. Aparecieron nuevas Claves de Vida, portadoras de retos y desaf\u00edos, y que se convierten en llamadas que nos exigen nuevos pasos. Acogemos la llamada a la <em>sinodalidad<\/em> como un camino de escucha, acompa\u00f1amiento, discernimiento y corresponsabilidad; percibimos nuestra creciente <em>interculturalidad<\/em> como un desaf\u00edo de comuni\u00f3n desde la diversidad y de inculturaci\u00f3n desde el Evangelio; asumimos el reto de la <em>sostenibilidad<\/em> <em>integral<\/em> de las Escuelas P\u00edas, suplicando del Esp\u00edritu la misma paciencia y atrevimiento desde las que Calasanz las fund\u00f3.<\/p><p><strong><em>Nos sentimos fuertemente enviados a la Misi\u00f3n<\/em><\/strong>. Comprendemos bien la visi\u00f3n de Calasanz, que desde una comprensi\u00f3n integral de la vida escolapia insisti\u00f3 en que el ejercicio del propio ministerio es camino de plenitud. Hemos recibido la desafiante llamada de caminar con los j\u00f3venes para construir juntos caminos de evangelizaci\u00f3n para los ni\u00f1os, los j\u00f3venes y las familias que viven entre nosotros. Asumimos que el impulso de la identidad calasancia de todas nuestras plataformas de misi\u00f3n debe ser siempre una tarea que impulsar, y siempre de modo compartido con todas las personas que son corresponsables de la misi\u00f3n escolapia. Y hemos reafirmado la llamada a la misi\u00f3n entre los pobres, desde unas Escuelas P\u00edas en Salida y misioneras.\u00a0<\/p><p><strong><em>Una nueva \u201cfotograf\u00eda\u201d de las Escuelas P\u00edas: el Esp\u00edritu nos anima a mirar nuestra realidad de modo renovado<\/em><\/strong>. La \u201cfoto\u201d era diferente: religiosos capitulares, el Consejo de la Fraternidad y los J\u00f3venes con los que caminamos y con los que compartimos profundamente la Misi\u00f3n. Es bueno comprender que esto es as\u00ed porque el Esp\u00edritu nos ha convocado. Y acogemos la novedad de esta experiencia como un don que debemos cuidar y potenciar. Queremos que la Orden y la Fraternidad caminemos juntos en todas las din\u00e1micas desde las que construimos el sue\u00f1o de Calasanz. Queremos que los J\u00f3venes est\u00e9n presentes en la vida real de las Escuelas P\u00edas, y nos ayuden a no creer que ya hemos dado todas las respuestas que ellos necesitan. Queremos que las personas que comparten vocacionalmente la Misi\u00f3n Escolapia formen parte -real- de la nueva foto. Y queremos que esta sea nuestra manera de vivir y trabajar en todas nuestras presencias.<\/p><p><strong><em>Algunas decisiones y cambios que se incorporan a nuestra legislaci\u00f3n interna<\/em><\/strong>. Entre ellas: el desaf\u00edo de la protecci\u00f3n del menor y la lucha contra los abusos sexuales, de conciencia y de poder; la dignidad de la mujer; la lucha contra el clericalismo; el acompa\u00f1amiento integral de los sacerdotes j\u00f3venes; las claves de una Formaci\u00f3n Inicial renovada; el desarrollo del modelo de Presencia Escolapia; el impulso del directorio de Participaci\u00f3n; el valor de las comunidades compartidas entre religiosos y laicos; los ministerios escolapios; el desarrollo sistem\u00e1tico de la Pastoral Vocacional; la mayor agilidad y pluralidad en la configuraci\u00f3n de las congregaciones provinciales; la importancia de la Comunicaci\u00f3n, etc. Cada uno de estos cambios precisan de una adecuada presentaci\u00f3n, sin duda; llegar\u00e1 el momento.\u00a0<\/p><p><strong><em>El Esp\u00edritu nos ha dejado tambi\u00e9n inquietudes que debemos tratar de responder<\/em><\/strong>. Queremos que nos inquiete la <em>opci\u00f3n por los pobres<\/em>, que fue lo que impuls\u00f3 a Calasanz a engendrar la Orden; queremos que el desaf\u00edo de una <em>vivencia escolapia aut\u00e9ntica<\/em>, tejida de oraci\u00f3n, trabajo y comunidad, est\u00e9 siempre presente en nuestros esfuerzos; queremos que nuestra lucha contra el <em>clericalismo y la mundanidad<\/em> sean reales y comprometidas; queremos que las Escuelas P\u00edas est\u00e9n plenas de <em>cuidado por el menor y por el vulnerable<\/em>, y siempre del lado de quien sufre; queremos que las <em>llamadas que recibimos desde nuestra Iglesia<\/em> resuenen como invitaciones a la conversi\u00f3n y al compromiso; queremos, en definitiva, vivir la vocaci\u00f3n recibida como ofrenda al Dios de las llamadas.<\/p><p><strong><em>Caminar con los y las j\u00f3venes<\/em><\/strong>: \u00a0El Cap\u00edtulo nos invita a compartir los sue\u00f1os; construir juntos; acompa\u00f1ar en verdad; vivir nuestra fe en profunda apertura y comuni\u00f3n; impulsar con ellos nuevas misiones; hacer camino sinodal; dejar que Calasanz les y nos transforme, etc. El Cap\u00edtulo nos invita a ello porque lo vivi\u00f3 y lo experiment\u00f3. Deseamos acoger los tres gritos pronunciados en el 48CG por el grupo de j\u00f3venes, que afirmaron estas tres convicciones inspiradas en Calasanz y en la experiencia vivida: ser m\u00e1s misioneros; vivir las realidades de los j\u00f3venes promoviendo su utop\u00eda y sus proyectos, discerniendo sus necesidades en un acompa\u00f1amiento generoso; pensar de nuevo c\u00f3mo vivimos el fondo de todo planteamiento pastoral: Jesucristo. Vivamos, de verdad, desde Cristo.<\/p><p><strong><em>El Esp\u00edritu no se puede controlar<\/em><\/strong>. Podemos tratar de dar nombre a sus inspiraciones, pero aparecer\u00e1n otras. Ir\u00e1n apareciendo en estos meses y a\u00f1os pr\u00f3ximos, en los procesos de acogida del Cap\u00edtulo, en los procesos de camino sinodal, en los procesos capitulares de las demarcaciones, en los encuentros fraternos, incluso, ojal\u00e1, en las reuniones de la Congregaci\u00f3n General. Un Cap\u00edtulo no es un evento aislado, sino un proceso de discernimiento y de vida.<\/p><p>Soy consciente de que cada una de estas opciones y decisiones necesita de una m\u00e1s amplia y certera presentaci\u00f3n para poder ser bien comprendida y acogida en el seno de las Escuelas P\u00edas. Algunas de ellas ser\u00e1n objeto de estudio en pr\u00f3ximas <em>salutatios<\/em>. Por el momento, he querido ofreceros una presentaci\u00f3n inicial, muy sint\u00e9tica, que pueda contribuir a dar comienzo al <strong><em>proceso de recepci\u00f3n del Cap\u00edtulo<\/em><\/strong>, que ha de ser largo y activo. Con el fin de ayudar en ese proceso, me gustar\u00eda volver a expresar tres dinamismos que creo que ayudan en el proceso de acogida capitular:<\/p><p><strong><em>Recibir el Cap\u00edtulo desde una actitud central<\/em><\/strong><em>,<\/em> desde una convicci\u00f3n que nos sit\u00faa con claridad en el momento actual de la Orden. Y esa actitud no es otra que tratar de vivir y caminar desde la centralidad de Jes\u00fas en nuestra vida, nuestra misi\u00f3n y nuestras opciones. S\u00f3lo as\u00ed podremos acoger este Cap\u00edtulo como una invitaci\u00f3n a \u201c<em>construir Escuelas P\u00edas<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 Este modo de situarnos nos ayuda a entendernos a nosotros mismos como personas corresponsablemente comprometidas en la construcci\u00f3n de una Orden m\u00e1s viva, m\u00e1s misionera, m\u00e1s fiel y capaz de nuevas respuestas. Esto nos compromete a todos. Invitamos a los j\u00f3venes no a repetir nuestros modelos, sino a construir con nosotros aportando su sensibilidad. Proponemos una formaci\u00f3n inicial buscadora de una vida consagrada m\u00e1s significativa, no de una sin horizontes. Trabajamos con y por los laicos no para que sean s\u00f3lo nuestros colaboradores, sino para que construyan con nosotros, corresponsablemente, seg\u00fan su propia vocaci\u00f3n. Todo ello nos ayuda a comprendernos a nosotros mismos como humildes trabajadores de esta mies fertil\u00edsima, que es de todos. Trabajamos por vocaci\u00f3n.\u00a0<\/p><p><strong><em>Purificar nuestros riesgos y aprovechar nuestras oportunidades<\/em><\/strong>. Ante la recepci\u00f3n del Cap\u00edtulo, todos tenemos <em>riesgos y oportunidades<\/em>. Los primeros deben ser superados, las segundas aprovechadas. Entre los primeros, cito algunos: la tentaci\u00f3n de <em>indiferencia<\/em> (esto no va conmigo, no tiene que nada que ver con mi vida cotidiana y mis necesidades), la <em>vulgarizaci\u00f3n<\/em> (\u201cm\u00e1s papeles, como siempre\u201d), la <em>simplificaci\u00f3n<\/em> (de los cap\u00edtulos, lo que interesa son las elecciones, lo dem\u00e1s se queda en las estanter\u00edas), la <em>manipulaci\u00f3n<\/em> (llevar el agua a nuestro molino, en lugar de pensar en lo que yo debo cambiar), el <em>provincianismo<\/em> (vamos a ver qu\u00e9 nos cabe de este Cap\u00edtulo en nuestra Provincia, en vez de pensar a qu\u00e9 somos llamados, como Provincia, desde este Cap\u00edtulo), la <em>ignorancia<\/em> (ni siquiera tomarme la molestia de leer, porque ya me lo s\u00e9 todo y tengo otras cosas m\u00e1s importantes que hacer). Hay muchos ejemplos que podemos a\u00f1adir, pero no es necesario hacerlo, pues lo esencial es ser conscientes de que todos tenemos riesgos en la acogida, porque normalmente las cosas se reciben seg\u00fan el recipiente, y eso no es f\u00e1cil de evitar.<\/p><p>Tambi\u00e9n tenemos oportunidades. Es bueno que las sepamos aprovechar. Como sencillas sugerencias, apunto algunas: <em>enriquecer nuestra conciencia de Orden<\/em>, tratando de entender lo que nos preocupa y ocupa, <em>fortalecer y actualizar nuestra comprensi\u00f3n de algunos elementos centrales de nuestro carisma<\/em> sobre los que podemos leer documentos bien interesantes, <em>aceptar un peque\u00f1o movimiento de desinstalaci\u00f3n<\/em> <em>vital<\/em> pensando en qu\u00e9 puedo colaborar para que sean posibles los grandes desaf\u00edos comunes que tenemos como Escuelas P\u00edas, organizar un buen <em>plan de formaci\u00f3n<\/em> en la comunidad, trabajando algunos de los documentos capitulares o tener alg\u00fan retiro de comunidad centrado en lo que puede significar para nosotros las decisiones del cap\u00edtulo.<em> \u00a0<\/em><\/p><p><strong><em>Vivir tambi\u00e9n este tiempo en din\u00e1mica de oraci\u00f3n<\/em><\/strong><em>. <\/em>Nuestras comunidades oraron intensamente antes y durante el Cap\u00edtulo General, pidiendo al Se\u00f1or que nuestra asamblea sexenal fuera una \u201c<em>oportunidad del Esp\u00edritu<\/em>\u201d. Pienso que no debemos dejar de hacerlo. Necesitamos situar la acogida del Cap\u00edtulo en la vida de oraci\u00f3n de nuestras comunidades y obras, as\u00ed como en la nuestra personal. Poco a poco, como la luvia que empapa la tierra -si es constante-, nuestra oraci\u00f3n nos ir\u00e1 transformando seg\u00fan el querer de Dios. Por eso, os recuerdo una de las peticiones que forman parte de la oraci\u00f3n que se prepar\u00f3 para el Cap\u00edtulo.<\/p><p><strong><em>Ven, Esp\u00edritu Santo<\/em><\/strong><em>. Ay\u00fadanos a contemplar la vida y el mundo con los ojos de Jes\u00fas. Haz de nosotros disc\u00edpulos humildes y fieles del Se\u00f1or, como Mar\u00eda, nuestra Madre, y como Calasanz, nuestro fundador. Que, por su intercesi\u00f3n, el Cap\u00edtulo General de nuestra Orden se acoja y se reciba para Gloria de Dios y Utilidad del Pr\u00f3jimo. AM\u00c9N. <\/em><\/p><p>Termino esta carta fraterna con una sencilla historia vivida en el Cap\u00edtulo, que creo que ilustra muy bien lo que quiero decir en esta carta. Durante el Cap\u00edtulo tuvimos la oportunidad de escuchar muchos testimonios de los propios capitulares, que nos hablaban de proyectos de la Orden, de las nuevas presencias, etc. Uno de ellos fue del P. Roberto Dalusung, de Asia Pac\u00edfico. S\u00e9 que \u00e9l me perdonar\u00e1 por citarle expl\u00edcitamente. Roberto nos explic\u00f3 el proyecto de Pastoral Vocacional Escolapia en Asia, sobre todo en pa\u00edses en los que no estamos presentes. Su presentaci\u00f3n fue todo un testimonio vocacional, en el que se mezclaban muchos de los valores de los que hablamos en las sesiones de trabajo. Al escucharle pudimos ver lo que significa el amor por la Orden y por Calasanz, la fuerza de la oraci\u00f3n, la audacia en la propuesta, la confianza serena en el Dios de las llamadas, el aprendizaje de la generosidad de los j\u00f3venes, el trabajo por la construcci\u00f3n de las Escuelas P\u00edas, la tesonera paciencia del que sabe que el due\u00f1o de los procesos es Otro, y muchas cosas m\u00e1s que est\u00e1n en el fondo del alma de cada escolapio. Tal vez por eso la ovaci\u00f3n con la que se acogi\u00f3 su testimonio no terminaba nunca. \u00a1Gracias, Roberto!<\/p><p>Recibid un abrazo fraterno<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><ol><li>Pedro Aguado Sch.P.<\/li><\/ol><p>Padre General<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carta-a-los-hermanos-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. 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