"I have good news ... I have met!"
"And we proclaim also to you!"
"And we proclaim also to you!"
From 5 to 11 August 2010, was held at Baida (PA), a retreat organized by the Daughters of St. Anne, open to children aged 14 and over. Slogan of this meeting was "I have good news! I've met ... ".
The retreat has had as its central theme the "Code for Happy - The Beatitudes ", a topic that has been deepened and matured day by day, through meditation taught by Father Valdo, who invited each participant to reflect on each of the Beatitudes, with the subsequent personal meditation, when each boy / girl was called to express how their lives had been lived up to that point in the specification bliss.
After the wake-up alarm, we all found ourselves in a place other than the convent, to recite the prayer of praise, and to pay out the first words of the day to God our Father. As usual morning was the meeting and the pilgrimage led by Fr Ernesto towards the small grotto of the Blessed Virgin Mary, set up by nuns in one of the many beautiful green spaces of the convent.
Every afternoon was provided a fixed space called "Practically ", in which the Br Josimar through games, group work, images, performances, music, dance etc . we made it easier to penetrate with ease, fun and helping each other, in the "how" to make feasible the concept of the Beatitudes in the context of everyday life.
Cravotta Joseph Anthony Vaccaro
(Youth Caltanissetta)