Pirate Ship Parts - Stern

- Caltanissetta (CL)

Adam and Eve:

"Let us make man in our image and likeness"

"I know that you are not only what I know, but I'm not afraid, I love you" these words were the center of the experience of faith that we young people have experienced the retreat held in Caltanissetta on 18 - December 19 ca

The theme of the retreat was: "Adam and Eve: Let us make man in our image and likeness."

Through this retreat, we learned the lessons that are the foundation of our being. Through the reading of the creation we note that we are like Adam and Eve were created and shaped in the image and likeness of God

Being created in God's image does it mean exactly? We have tried to answer this question through discussions led by Father and Brother Josimar Valdo, reaching the conclusion that being created in the image and likeness of God means that we were created as he can love and be loved. Adam and Eve were the first to be created in the image and likeness of the Father, and I was given the ability to make free choices. Although he had been given a natural right, Adam and Eve committed the great mistake of being groped by the power of wishing to become omnipotent and omniscient as their Creator. Through the reading of the Bible, we can experience things experienced before, trying not to make the same mistakes, and how the clay is still fresh we can return to the original form that God gave us, composing and addressing the missteps that we made during our journey.

Withdrawal exciting, especially for me that I had the experience for the first time, which allowed me to think through a direct confrontation with the Lord, to remember in my life, especially when we were contemplating God Eucharist kneeling at his feet, living the moment with particular involvement.
During the various times we have had a dynamic that was to machine a piece of clay, creating what we conveyed our feelings after listening to the creation. 'S experience of the clay made to each of us understand how difficult it is if you do not improvise artists plasma with love and passion, as God did with us, giving us a form, one for a dedication of time and of' love is constantly present in our lives.

moments of awe, silence and wonder, as I'm concerned fear in the face of a broken vase, by Fr Josimar, symbolizing the frailty of man that wrong at any time, like Adam and Eve, may change the initial design of the Father. Each of us is a bit 'reflected in these pieces, because that represented the breaking away from God during the time of the desert, each of us took a fragment of the remains of the vessel on which he later left its footprint by sending the one that had hit him with thoughts, words and drawings. Then we looked in part to gather the pieces of the vessel, an act that symbolizes each of us can return correcting mistakes on their shape and letting the love of God which will consolidate all the pieces, returning the vessel to its original shape, like us when we return to walk "In the Footsteps of the Righteous".

Michael Seminara

(Youth Group, and Mother Rosa)