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Card. Baldisseri: "The Church wants to help young people understand values".

Ahead of the upcoming Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, scheduled for October 2018, PALABRA has interviewed the Secretary General of the Synod, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, to learn firsthand how the organizational machinery is going. The topic will be. "Young people, faith and vocational discernment.". In this way, the Church "listens to the voice, sensitivity and faith of young people".

Giovanni Tridente

Rilke and the young poet

More than 100 years ago Rainer Maria Rilke wrote ten letters to a young poet who wanted to learn to write poetry. Those letters, collected in a memorable book, are still relevant today because they vitally appeal to today's readers who long to be poets.

Jaime Nubiola

A youth ministry for the 21st century

Each generation makes the message of Jesus Christ present in its own time, its own language and its own culture. Youth ministry is not oblivious to these changes, and must present the beauty of Christianity in an appropriate way. An experience such as Life Teen can give clues about ways of catechesis: participatory and in a contemporary language, without cutting doctrine and with a deep sacramental practice.

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The Annunciation in Art up to the Middle Ages

The Annunciation of the Lord (Lk 1:26-38) is, in the Christian tradition, the moment of the Incarnation. In the history of salvation, the Annunciation to Mary constitutes the moment of the Incarnation. "fullness of time" (Gal 4:4). By her assent to the divine message, the Virgin Mary becomes the Mother of Jesus. This biblical scene has been frequently depicted in art.

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V Centenary. The true legend of the Caballero de Gracia.

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Bishop Jorge Carlos Patrón Wong: "Priestly formation, above all, is the formation of the heart of a disciple of Jesus".

The Congregation for the Clergy has published the new Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotaliswhich serves as the basis for the formation of the priests of the world. Patrón Wong, responsible for seminaries in that Congregation, and archbishop emeritus of Papantla, explains. "The most important thing is that the priest is always in formation and that this formation is integral," he says.