PHILIPPINES - A LANGUAGE OF LOVE AND MERCY

 

University: KNOWLEDGE AND MERCY - ROME'S CHARTER 2016 - DIE CHARTA VON ROM - CARTA DE ROMA - LA CHARTE DE ROME - CARTA DI ROMA - Instrumentum Laboris

ROME's CHARTER 2016

  IN ROME THE JUBILEE OF UNIVERSITIES, 

AND OF RESEARCH CENTRES

“Knowledge, Erudition and Education” 

   The “Science of Education”, session of the International Symposium for University teachers, aims at thinking in an interdisciplinary way over the themes of Knowledge, wisdom and education, in the years of instrumental rationality, of technological development, of mass media and globalization, in which the above mentioned issues have become particularly complex.  

       Education in fact seems to face those peculiar aspects unknown even in a recent past: the teenagers’ open-mindedness towards contingency, variety of experiences and of new social relations made possible by the new media. Basically young people tend to educate themselves and to build their own identity through a “mosaic of behaviours”, using a new experiential flexibility and different communicative opportunities. On the other hand a “light socialization” is produced and there is a certain difficulty in defining in a unitary sense one’s own biography. 

     For this reason the idea of formation in the contemporary society shouldn’t be separated from those of knowledge and learning, because in the educational process you cannot give importance only to the transfer of notions, of data, of rules and of a “cold” teaching. 

     In the post modern era, University cannot be anchored to a reductionist, utilitarian vision of knowledge and be limited to a simple formal logic, but it should be the place of information and education where it is possible to ask a question “ on man’s truth” on the relation between ideals and utilities, between a general sense of knowledge and specialization, a place in which we can pursue, as Pope Francesco stated, “knowledge in the deepest sense of the word”. 

Representing UMEC-WUCT took part, the secretary general, Giovanni Perrone

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CARTA DI ROMA 2016 - ROME'S CHARTER 2016 - LA CHARTE DE ROME 2016 - DIE CHARTA VON ROM 2016 - CARTA DE ROMA 2016 - ISTRUMENTUM LABORIS

CONOSCENZA E MISERICORDIA

la terza missione dell'università

“Conoscenza, sapienza e formazione” 

     La Sessione “Scienze educative” del Simposio Internazionale dei Docenti Universitari (al quale hanno partecipato oltre mille rettori e docenti provenienti da tutto il mondo) è stata una significativa occasione per riflettere interdisciplinarmente sui temi della Conoscenza, sapienza e formazione, negli anni delle razionalità strumentale, dello sviluppo tecnologico, mass mediatico e della globalizzazione, nei quali tali questioni sono diventate particolarmente complesse. 

    Infatti, l’educazione sembra misurarsi con aspetti singolari ed inediti rispetto anche al passato prossimo, a cominciare da un’apertura degli adolescenti alla contingenza, alla molteplicità di esperienze e di nuove relazioni sociali rese possibili dai new media. In sostanza, il giovane tende a formarsi e a costruire la propria identità all’insegna di un “mosaico di comportamenti”, volgendo a proprio favore le nuove flessibilità esperienziali e opportunità comunicative: di contro, però, così si produce una “socializzazione leggera” e una certa difficoltà a definire un senso unitario della propria biografia. 

     A maggior ragione, l’idea di formazione, nella contemporaneità, non dovrebbe essere separata da quelle di conoscenza e di sapienza, perché non si può dare rilievo nel processo educativo solo al trasferimento di nozioni, di dati, di norme e di una “fredda” istruzione. 

    Nell’epoca postmoderna, l’Università non può essere ancorata a una visione riduzionistica, utilitaristica, della conoscenza e limitarsi soltanto ad una logica formale, ma dovrebbe essere lo spazio informativo e formativo in cui porsi la domanda “sulla verità dell’uomo”, sul rapporto tra idealità e utilità, tra senso generale del sapere e specializzazione, nel quale perseguire, come ha affermato Papa Francesco, “la sapienza nel senso più profondo del termine”.

JUBILEE OF UNIVERSITIES

MISERICORDE: AVENIR ACCOMPLI DE L'HUMANITE'

A l'occasion du dimanche de la miséricorde, je voudrais dédier ce poème sur la fécondité de la  miséricorde  à tous les enseignants, aux écoliers, élèves et étudiants du monde entier. Par leurs efforts conjugués, ils travaillent à construire un monde  réconcilié. Christ Ressuscité porte par eux le monde à son achèvement. Que la rosée de son Cœur transpercé féconde la terre de  nos vies pour plus de justice, d'équité, de paix et de bonheur pour tous. 

POÈME :  Miséricorde : avenir accompli de l’humanité

Pensée insaisissable du Dieu éternel

Où l’homme vrai surgit roi du limon divin

Fut modelé dans l’ardente coupe de vin

Dieu révèle les secrets du oui fraternel

L’amour des origines qui crée l’image

L’entoure de la tour du divin pouvoir d’où

Se filtrent les rayons du cœur du Dieu doux

Et la vie coule du bois salué des mages

Désormais l’univers accueille le souffle

De l’Esprit qui rassemble tous en unité

Et édifie tous dans la même charité

Vers l’avenir radieux où le bonheur souffle

                                                              Père AKABASSI Pascal

LAUDATO SI - Lenten lecture

C

(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Peter K.A. 

Turkson, President of the Pontifical 

Council for Justice and Peace, gav

e a Lenten talk at St. Thomas of 

Villanova Church, in Villanova 

University, Philadelphia, on Thursday

 evening entitled “Care of Creation as

 a Work of Mercy”.

CARDINAL TURKSON GIVES LENTEN LECTURE ON LAUDATO SI

The aim of the lecture, based on the Pope’s encyclical Laudato si’, was to promote the Social Teaching of the Church and explored the contemporary question of how to live our faith in the world. Below find the English language text of the speech given by Cardinal Peter Turkson:

The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace has always been charged with developing and promoting the Social Teaching of the Church, in order to bring the timeless truths of the Gospel, our faith and tradition, into the public space, into society. The first formal example is the social encyclical Rerum Novarum of 1891. At a time when the industrial economy was only a century old and posed many dilemmas, especially for workers and their families, Pope Leo XIII was responding to these many res novae or “new things”. The most recent instance of such teaching, nearly 125 years later, is Laudato si’.[1] Again Pope Francis is responding to the res novae of our time, namely, environmental and social degradation. So to give this lecture is an example of what our department of the Roman Curia does to assist Pope Francis in his mission. At the same time, I am invited to St. Thomas of Villanova Church to offer a “Lenten reflection”. This is a moment of spiritual deepening on our pilgrimage, during the Jubilee Year of Mercy. and in Lent, towards the passion, death and resurrection of Christ. Ordained as a Bishop to sanctify the Church, I am very happy to exercise this Ministry of the Word amongst you “bearing witness to the gospel of God’s grace”.

I am also delighted with the title you have chosen, “Care of Creation as a Work of Mercy”. It really helps us to explore a most relevant theme: how to live our faith in the world. Here are the five sections of the public lecture, and the five points of the Lenten reflection: I. What is Creation?  II. What is Care of Creation?   III. What is Mercy?  IV. What are the Works of Mercy, and how does Care of Creation belong to them?   V. How do the Works of Mercy help us to live the Jubilee of Mercy here in Philadelphia? .......

Read:  Lenten lecture on Laudato si