THREE-YEAR PERIOD 2011-2013:
life education in the fragility
Challenge and prophecy for Health Pastoral Care
A tool for pastoral
Starting this year, the National Office for the Pastoral Care of Health offers a
through a three-year planning tool shared with his pastoral Look
and a working group comprising the representatives of CISM and USMI.
The intention is not to provide detailed documentation about -
techistico reflectivity or doctrinal, but to make available to those who
program and those who work in pastoral health care a summary of some common objectives
and themes on which to focus. From this brief exposition of
central themes and objectives for the next three years, we will work, according to the specified
Bishops Italians, to value in operational, in our reality, the numerous documents of the Magisterium
existing on these subjects and the pastoral note "Preach the Gospel and
cured the sick."
THREE-YEAR PROGRAMME 2011-2013
THEME DAY XIX WORLD DELMALATO
Introduction The purpose of this instrument, therefore, is to support the work in the ministry of health
diocesan level and also to link the path of the Church in Italy
, according to the directions of the Episcopal Conference Italian contained in the Guidelines for the Pastoral
next decade, "Educating for the good life of the Gospel." The application of this instrument
ministry is designed for those who are involved
in any capacity, in health and shows great flexibility and possibility
adaptation and integration, according to the specific situations in which programming
you will realize.
It was felt, therefore, to enhance the liturgical seasons and to integrate, in a path
unified, coherent theme of Day of the Sick, the National Conferences and other
initiatives with clear targets and tools for verification. We will then, in
throughout the three years to provide tools for the job based on the texts of the Magisterium in
matter of life and health, with particular attention to the pastoral areas of integration
in ecclesial life and specific problems that emerge in the cultural, civil or
that are important to support and develop local pastoral work.
"Educating for life in the fragility. Challenge and a prophecy for Health Pastoral Care "is the theme that
the National Office for the Pastoral Care of Health and its access adopted
for the next three years 2011-2013, in line, as anticipated, with the pastoral
of the CEI for the current decade. Basic guidelines by which it moves our
educational activity are to be considered alongside the service and the presence of man in time
fragility, that is when human life is crossed by the suffering and poverty and need
more support. In the context of education,
then, is to enhance the theme of educating through the fragility. Life acquires
in time of illness, a new meaning and can develop relationships genuine and deep.
These steps may take the fragility as a resource and opportunity for growth,
through the mutual recognition and acceptance of same fragility,
present in healthy and sick, those who educate and those who are educated. However, specific attention is paid to educational
promotion of life and health and lifestyle good for
training for health professionals and pastoral care, as well as the concrete realization
of "community healing" (cf. Pastoral Note PVCM, 51), which are places for collaboration and integration
between various areas which make up the pastoral action.
In these three years we want to reaffirm that life comes first, and that every effort should be made
to promote and protect, that man must be accepted as a person and never
as a tool or object and should be treated with respect which is due to his dignity as a person.
Finally, to all human beings, as human beings, should be guaranteed the right to life,
access to primary care and the best possible protection of health, for the sake of justice and witness
charity.
Therefore, the issues at the heart of our pastoral care in the next three years
will be:
- year 2011 - "First of all ... life"
- year 2012 - "Healing the whole person"
- year 2013 - "Good health, good for all."
In the path I have outlined, the term "all" is made in three subjects and, in a sense,
connects them. It says a wide-ranging work - we could say "in all areas" -
affirmation of life as the basis (year 2011), a holistic approach to
personal care (year 2012) and, finally, a reflection on common good in relation to
world of health care (year 2013).
Through the development of individual annual themes, the horizon of education for life in
time of weakness, will be pursued, over the period the following general objectives
:
1. participate in the journey of the Church in Italy, according to the Guidelines for Pastoral
CEI for the decade, declining issues and instances in the pastoral
health.
2. Conducting Health Pastoral Care in Italy to make a quantum leap in the ability to put
attention to protection issues and promotion of life and health,
that these issues are properly addressed in the social context and perceived
as a matter of fundamental mission of the Church and in particular of the new evangelization
.
3. Spread and take root among the believers and society, through appropriate educational opportunities,
a culture of acceptance and support of human life, especially when it is
under conditions of fragility and severe limits.
4. Support and promote the planning ministry of local churches in health
joined to it and shared initiatives at regional and national unit.
5. Bring out the good practices of integration of the pastoral ministry of health in the ordinary
ecclesial communities and seek the knowledge and wide dissemination.
Pastoral Theme for the Year 2010-2011
"First of all ... life"
early three-year course that we have outlined so far, the pastoral year 2010 -
2011 aims at promoting knowledge and deepening of the reasons why the Christian
which recognizes a particular value to human life and in every single moment
and condition where it can be to come by, especially in disability or illness.
Healthcare and Christian communities are often confused by a reductionist reading
of life that inevitably impoverishes their outlook on man ill
and reduces their ability to promote authentic forms of service and care.
affirm "life, first of all" means to recognize as the foundation of the human.
this may well be the shared basis - for believers and nonbelievers -
esteem and respect it in its whole span, from conception until natural completion
and the belief that this fundamental value inerisca equally to every human life
no possibility to discriminate between quality of life forms.
tireless seeker of happiness are, in fact, the men, even in times of sickness
or suffering, and not only for their understandable desire to get rid of these
, but also because they have the ability to search and find a sense of what happens
. Of course, I am neither the disease nor the pain in themselves to make sense. Indeed, taken
only for themselves, they contradict God's plan of love and kindness. The will
of God, fully manifestataci the only begotten Son, is the victory over sin and death and
the gift of life ("I have come that they may have life in abundance
" - John 10:10) and communion in love with every man and every woman, every time
("Abide in my love. [...] so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be full
" - Jn 15: 9b-11 ). These words of Christ open our minds and our hearts
to consider more deeply the mystery of life: it not only has value, but value is
itself. This is the first and fundamental perfection of being, which is expressed in its fullness
in humans. Therefore, especially when marked by suffering, life
requires the discovery of its deeper meanings, which allow you to tap into bliss,
still low, and also hidden in time of trouble (cf. Mt 5:4).
The meaning of life in times of sickness in the first instance, can be searched and
found in the desire to heal, to be cared for or to look to the future with hope.
However, even under extreme conditions or incurable diseases, the sense
finds himself looking for more in depth, for example, in personal relationships that are generated in the experience of discovering or
live day by day, enjoying the small and large gifts
covertly hidden in the wounds of an illness or disability.
Far from intellectualism, the experience of those who have seen the suffering, or is made
companion those who are sick and in pain, is a treasure of humanity and truth that enriches all
. For this reason, it is imperative and urgent to prevent disease
be lived without consolation, to become an accursed and desolate;
for this, too, must develop and communicate the extraordinary life force that emanates from
fragile life and who cares, especially in a time marked
utilitarianism and individualism. Our commitment to programming in the pa-
toral health this year is geared to take on precisely these challenges,
to highlight the richness contained in the experience of life and fragile to put in place to make the paths
suffering an educational experience of hope (cf. Spe Salvi Encyclical Letter
, 36).
"First of all ... life", therefore, to revive vital to modern man,
who has difficulty in perceiving the meaning of illness and suffering.
"First of all ... life, even more, because in it we can get a sense of divine existence and
, loving always, even unto the end, build a more human and more fraternal
.
XIX World Day of the Sick
"By his wounds you were healed" (1 Peter 2:24)
The human experience of Suffering does not always lead to reconciliation with the Creator,
with him who is the source of life. Indeed, in people affected by the disease arises a natural question
, often combined with a sense of rebellion, which can turn into a sort of
pleading: "Why? Why should I suffer? ". A quell'implorazione echoes the cry of
Christ on the cross: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Ps 22.2, Mk 15, 34;
Mt 27, 46).
Christ has gathered in that cry, the pain of humanity of all times and presenting it to the Father
. The wounds of Christ enclose in it all the fragility of the human. But we must not forget that
they are not an exercise in painful "heroic" or
are ends in themselves. In the Paschal Mystery of Christ, evil does not have the last word and suffering
accepted and offered for love becomes a form of healing and salvation. The drama of Good Friday
proceeds toward the light of Easter Sunday.
Quite appropriately, the theme chosen by the Holy Father for the XIX World Day of the Sick
causes us to look in that direction, without awe
to the languages \u200b\u200band practices of utilitarianism and hedonism contemporary.
The Christian is called to exercise the spirit of prophecy, the very place where the human
is in check and tried to curl up in selfishness or giving in to despair.
To exercise this spirit of prophecy we are called to change our look,
contemplating the crucified and risen Christ, the power of love of the Father. Baptism, which
plunges us into the heart of the paschal mystery is the divine life that is given to us and enables us
of prophecy and become, in union with Christ, co-redeemers
experience of suffering. The grace of baptism and other sacraments and true
prayerful contemplation of the mystery of Easter, therefore, work to transform our lives as a gift for
others and in the "new humanity" that is the stone for the construction of the Kingdom.
The look of love of persons accompanying the poor, the suffering, the marginalized,
announces the coming of the Kingdom and at the same time, makes it present. In the eyes of those who
take charge of those who suffer, and live their sufferings in union with Christ or who
dies in confidence and in total abandonment to the Father, a special light reflected, as
from an open window on the mystery of God
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