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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Franciscan ideal<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Another great lesson received by these young people was to be able to share life with the sisters, to know first hand contemplatives who dedicate their whole lives to pray, to talk with God. The questions that arose for the young people could be asked directly to the sisters, and thus share with them their concerns. Because these young people came to the monastery with a desire to help, but also with many wounds and questions in their hearts. And they needed to open up to someone who could listen to them. The Franciscan ideal, the life experience of St. Clare, was incarnated in these women and became wisdom for the young people of today. Poverty and austerity, the desire for fraternity, care for nature, the call to mission, rebuilding one's own life and the whole of society... these were not stories of the past but urgent demands of our hearts, the needs of today's world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With one of the groups was a Catholic film director, Francisco Campos, director of films such as \"El Roc\u00edo es compartir\", \"El colibr\u00ed\" and \"Jesucristo vive\". At one point I wondered if it is easy to find many young people willing to live like this: get up early, sleep on the floor, work hard, go to bed early to be able to perform the next day .... and on top of that pay for it! When he told me this, I could not help but remember two young people from a high school in M\u00f3stoles who told me that it was the best plan they had ever been offered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps the venerable Jesuit Tom\u00e1s Morales was right when he said that \"if you ask little of a young person, he gives nothing; if you ask a lot of him, he gives everything\". In reality, I think that many more young people would respond to a call like this, to give their time for others, if there were adults, educators, who dared to make them the proposal. And who would be willing to live with them, working side by side, these days. Because no one can propose something if one is not willing to live it oneself. It would simply not be credible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fresh air<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
The final result has been greater than we initially expected. A lot of progress has been made in cleaning up the walls and removing weeds... although there is still much to be done, of course. But, above all, these young people have been able to relive the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi. And as if it were a sign, a fresh air was breathed these days in Ordu\u00f1a. These young people have managed to bring life and hope to all of us who have passed through the monastery of St. Clare. Looking at them we could not help but remember Francis at San Damiano rebuilding a small hermitage materially, but beginning to rebuild the Church of Christ by returning to the roots of the Gospel lived without glosses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the midst of a worldwide pandemic, in a world that is looking for a new beginning, that needs to be rebuilt in its relationships, from its own foundations, these young people show us the path we can take. To allow ourselves to be challenged by Christ himself and by the needs of our brothers and sisters, to seek God's friends with whom we can share our lives, to get down to work without making big speeches, simply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And for educators, the great call to continue believing in young people, because in the heart of today's young people there continues to beat a call to heroism, to generosity, to selfless dedication. Yes, this is the great challenge for educators. To believe in young people, as God believed in Francis when he was still a boy, as God has believed in these two hundred and fifty young people who have come to Ordu\u00f1a this summer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
El monasterio de Santa Clara de la vizca\u00edna ciudad de Ordu\u00f1a llevaba veinte a\u00f1os cerrado desde que la anterior comunidad de hermanas tuvo que dejarlo por falta de vocaciones. La historia de ese edificio del siglo XV parec\u00eda abocada, como tantos otros, a la ruina o a convertirse en un parador nacional. Pero ni la […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":14485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[552,548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educacion","category-foco"],"yoast_head":"\n