Every day, we
face many different challenges: poverty, drugs, illiteracy..., however, the
discovery that each one of us can enrich the others leads us to look for those moments
in which we can build relationships. We feel part of one big family.
In Mexico, Catholicism
is very strong and young people participate actively to pilgrimages, parish
groups, devotion to the saints and these things reflect the faith of our
people.
In this context,
the figure of Chiara Luce gave us the opportunity to learn about another way of
living our faith. Chiara Luce is a model for young people and she invites us to
go on, to face pain and sorrow and to live every moment, every difficult in a
new way.
Many musicals on
Chiara Luce were performed in different cities. Each one had its own
characteristic though maintain the same goal: to reach a greater number of
people and cry out that we have only one life and we want to live it out as
best as we can.
Last year, the chapel
of Mariapolis El Diamante (little town of the Focolare Movement) was dedicated to
Chiara Luce. It was the moment when we all realized that we cannot live Chiara
Luce’s example only when we are in Church but “to take her along” with us to as
many places as possible: at home, in the shops, in schools, to prisons, and so
on.
One of the big
problems that afflict Mexico is drug trafficking and we Y4UWs felt the great
need to give our contribution in giving a concrete answer to this situation. In
fact, we have committed ourselves to change fear into smiles, and into a
request for peace. We have distributed stickers and banners with messages of
peace in many streets of the major cities.
Another reality in
which we have tried to commit ourselves is the care for poor children and the
elderly. In many cites these two sectors of society are the ones that suffer
most. They are often abandoned.
We regularly
meet children to share a family atmosphere, to eat together, to play games and
also to face the problem of illiteracy, which is widespread. Confident that helping
out children is a guarantee for a renewed present and future society, we are
trying to find was how to give them dignity and a place in society.
With the elderly
persons, we encounter a sector of society that suffers for loneliness. In
Mexico there are many places where one can leave the elderly ones when the
family doesn’t want to take better care of them, many times they die there
without seeing their families. We visit some homes on monthly basis and we share
the beautiful things we do, we sing, we play or we just listen to their heart rending
stories. While being with them, we discovered that all we try to give selflessly
returns back to us through smiles, hugs and thank you’s.
Over and over
again, we discover that every reality that we come across is a chance to go
beyond our limits, our sorrows, our age differences, our fears and start that
change in our country that we all yearn for.
Karen Trujillo
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