In Fernando de la Mora: a dream, a process of growth, a goal for a new beginning.
As the International Laboratory of Integral Ecology we share the challenge of caring for the common home in our neighborhoods with many hardworking, simple, committed and generous people.
The task is arduous, and sometimes it seems that our small gesture is meaningless…. And the temptation to give up almost comes.
The Laudato Si’ Movement runs many exchange and training spaces for certified Animators who could support them in their hope and suggest new ideas. But the difficulty of accessing online training or not knowing how to write the final project makes it difficult for them to get the certification that would then qualify them for other spaces.
We dreamed of a Laudato Si’ Animator Training Course in face-to-face mode, we built it together with the Sisters of Charity and the Paraguay Chapter of Laudato Si’…
We met five Saturdays, one a month, to develop the different topics and spent the last half hour thinking about the final draft, which took almost a month to put in writing for presentation…
- and we went around the neighborhood,
- and we feel their pains,
- and we reflect together on what is possible,
- and we dream with hope,
- and we complement each other in our knowledge,
- and we have committed ourselves to what is needed….
The projects cover different topics: catechetical proposals that have already been introduced in the year’s programming, a community garden for one of the centers, recycling of textiles to combat plastic, maintenance and care of a square so that it remains “zero drugs,” cleaning and reusing a public space with the confirmation youth.
And we thanked God for the process, for witnessing each person’s growth, and celebrated the arrival at the finish line of 24 participants with the long-awaited handing over of certifications.
But this goal is only a stage for a strengthened commitment…the results of which we will tell you later… is the gift of communion, it is the assurance that Good has the last word.
In addition, 16 teenagers who are not of legal age to receive certification have also completed the process and will form a Laudato Si… With them we will realize another significant moment that is still pending.
Realized at the St. Francis of Assisi Chapel of St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Fernando de la Mora,
Sisters of Charity and Laudato Si’ Movement Paraguay
