Don Giussani outlines our journey to freedom with these points:
1. in order to be educated to freedom - the ability to adhere to being - we must be educated in attentiveness and acceptance.
2. we, by nature, expect things and our expectation becomes asking, searching: "Thus, if reality provokes us, then an education in freedom must teach one to respond to pro-vocation. It is an education in 'hungering' and 'thirsting' which makes us attentive to the many solicitations emerging from our confrontation with the totality of the real, ready to accept any valuable aspect, that is, any serious promise to the essential need of our being." (pg. 126)
3. "The inevitable consequence of a relationship with God, mediated by the phenomenon of the sign, is what I call the experience of risk [..] The more something involves the meaning of living, the more we fear affirming it [...] Only the communal dimension renders the human being sufficiently capable of overcoming the experience of risk" (pg. 130).
What are the things that I perceive as pro-vocations ("to call to" ...as we all know!:)? How do I respond to these things? Is what Giussani claims about the necessity of community true? How do I know?
School of Community is... at the moment uncertain because of Dorm Wars. Time and place to be posted soon!
Listen to this song, if you get the chance. We'll be singing it!!
The first version is very beautiful, but the second is sung soulfully, and I couldn't resist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qaww0_trUc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHmUPqI6w9g
School of Community on Sunday:
ReplyDeleteWe'll meet at the cookout after Dorm Wars and be sure to keep it under an hour, since it's a busy day. Please go to Mass in the morning so that we don't have to rush too much though.
See you there!