Adult blog May 12 2023.

ADULT BLOG may 12 2023.

In the continent discovered and colonized in its origins by the powerfull SPANISH EMPIRE,  separated at the times by seas at a montly distance,  in historical moments that were dificult to the spanish Crown, nevertheless the conquest was the graetest ever. Including the cristianization , the vice-royal goverment, culturicing a great numbered population. Historical memories of mankind may not do proper justice to this everlasting happenings. It was taking out of darknes to the sun many towns, cities, communities of great population. All were sanctified by the divine presence, this was acomplished by the great help of the VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE.

Persons of high rankings left spain and came to the NEW SPAIN (Nueva España), being its labor on many fields of invaluable help to bring up to civization the extensive lands of what was called afterwards América. This conquest even without resources reachazationd from Alaska to Patagonia, of course other european powers like Portugal and England came, and did their inmortal parts.

Not all was hunky-dory, not all the men that came laked ambition and  easy personal enrichment, and abuse was extended trough all the conquered land along with the legal explotation by the empire. Those were times of slavery and silver and gold minning, so you can imagine what happened, Spain received good amounts of rich metals that were spent in armies out of the Iberic Península, defending dominions, that after all were lost..

Opression in one side of the world, big spenditures on the other side, but lets value what was good for Mexico at the time. The monastic orders in accordance and financed by teh Crown, did the finest ever job of teaching and cristianization that has taken place in the world, we are speaking of several million inhabitants that from the monks and other organizations, some govermental and others by private individuals did the most extraordinary acomplishment of civilization and progress. Schools, the first university of all americas was founded by the vice-roy in mexico city, arts and crafts schools were all over as well as fruit and vegetable growers.

Working animals and other were brougth for the first time to this lands, cows, horses, burros, dogs, and many othes that had the success that can be apreciated today, and some others like potato, tomatos, sugar cane were unknoun in Eupe and taken from Mexico to that continent, with the everlasting success.

Oh mexicans, my countrymen how deep and profound is the debt of gratitude to the spaniards that we should have, instead of the hate and dispice we showsome times, it is  love and apreciation to  Spain in general what we showld have. They, the spaniards, have a deep love and admiration for us mexicans, and they show it whenever we visit our MADRE PATRIA.

Jordi Casas.

INTERESTING MATTERS OF OPUS DEI AND THE VATICAN.

 JOHN PAUL BISHOP

SERVANT OF THE SERVANTS OF GOD

FOR A PERMANENT RECORD OF THE MATTER

With very great hope, the Church directs its attention and maternal care to Opus Dei, which -- by divine inspiration --the Servant of God Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer founded in Madrid on October 2, 1928, so that it may always be an apt and effective instrument of the salvific mission which the Church carries out for the life of the world.

From its beginnings, this Institution has in fact striven, not only to illuminate with new lights the mission of the laity in the Church and in society, but also to put it into practice; it has also endeavored to put into practice the teaching of the universal call to sanctity, and to promote at all levels of society the sanctification of ordinary work, and by means of ordinary work. Furthermore, through the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, it has helped diocesan priests to live this teaching, in the exercise of their sacred ministry.

Since Opus Dei has grown, with the help of divine grace, to the extent that it has spread and works in a large number of dioceses throughout the world, as an apostolic organism made up of priests and laity, both men and women, which is at the same time organic and undivided -- that is to say, as an institution endowed with a unity of spirit, of aims, of government and of formation -- it has become necessary to give it a juridical configuration which is suited to its specific characteristics. It was the Founder of Opus Dei himself who, in 1962, in a humble and trusting petition, asked the Holy See to grant an appropriate ecclesial configuration to the Institution, bearing in mind its true nature and theological characteristics, and with a view to a greater apostolic effectiveness.

From the time when the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council introduced into the legislation of the Church, by means of the Decree Presbyterorum Ordinis, n. 10--which was made effective by the Motu proprio Ecclesiae Sanctae, I, n. 4--, the figure of the personal Prelatures, to carry out specific pastoral activities, it was seen clearly that this juridical figure was perfectly suited to Opus Dei. Therefore, in 1969, Our Predecessor Paul VI, of beloved memory, graciously accepting the petition of the Servant of God Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, authorized him to convoke a special General Congress to begin, under his guidance, the study necessary for a transformation of Opus Dei, in keeping with its nature and with the norms of the Second Vatican Council.

We ourselves expressly ordered that this study should continue, and in 1979, We requested the Sacred Congregation for Bishops, which was the competent Congregation, by virtue of the matter involved, to examine the formal petition presented by Opus Dei, following a careful study of all the relevant facts and legal data.

In carrying out the task entrusted to it, the Sacred Congregation carefully examined the matter, taking into account the historical, and also the juridical and pastoral aspects. Thus, having completely eliminated all doubts about the basis, and the possibility, and the specific manner of granting the petition, it became abundantly clear that the desired transformation of Opus Dei into a personal Prelature was opportune and useful.

Therefore, We, with the plenitude of Our apostolic power, having accepted the opinion which Our Venerable Brother the Most Eminent and Most Reverend Cardinal Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops had expressed to Us, and making good, in so far as it is necessary, the consent of those who have, or think they have some competence in this matter, command and desire the following to be put into practice.

I

Opus Dei is erected as a personal Prelature, international in ambit, with the name of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, or, in abbreviated form, Opus Dei. The Sacerdotal Society of the Holy Cross is erected as a clerical Association intrinsically united to the Prelature.

II

The Prelature is governed by the norms of general law, by those of this Constitution, and by its own Statutes, which receive the name "Code of particular law of Opus Dei".

III

The jurisdiction of the personal Prelature extends to the clergy incardinated in it, and also only in what refers to the fulfillment of the specific obligations undertaken through the juridical bond, by means of a contract with the Prelature to the laity who dedicate themselves to the apostolic activities of the Prelature: both clergy and laity are under the authority of the Prelate in carrying out the pastoral task of the Prelature, as established in the preceding article.

IV

The Ordinary of the Prelature Opus Dei is its Prelate, whose election, which has to be carried out as established in general and particular law, has to be confirmed by the Roman Pontiff.

Vⁿ

In accordance with Art. 117 of the Apostolic Constitution Praedicate Evangelium, the Prelature depends on the Dicastery for the Clergy, which, according to the subject matter, shall evaluate the relative questions with the other Dicasteries of the Roman Curia. The Dicastery for the Clergy, in dealing with the various questions, shall make use of the competencies of the other Dicasteries through appropriate consultation or transfer of files.

VIⁿ

Each year the Prelate shall submit to the Dicastery for the Clergy a report on the state of the Prelature and on the fulfilment of its apostolic work.

VII

The central Government of the Prelature has its offices in Rome. The oratory of Our Lady of Peace, which is in the central offices of the Prelature, is erected as a prelatic church.

The Most Reverend Monsignor Alvaro del Portillo, canonically elected President General of Opus Dei on September 15, 1975, is confirmed and is appointed Prelate of the personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, which has been erected.

Finally, We designate the Venerable Brother Romolo Carboni, Titular Archbishop of Sidone and Apostolic Nuncio in Italy, for the opportune execution of all the above, and confer on him the necessary and opportune faculties, including that of subdelegating--in the matter in question -- in any ecclesiastical dignitary, with the obligation of sending, as soon as possible, to the Sacred Congregation for Bishops, an authentic copy of the act which testifies to the fact that the mandate has been carried out.

All things to the contrary notwithstanding.

Given in Rome at Saint Peter's, on the 28th of November, 1982, the fifth of Our Pontificate.

AUGUSTINUS Card. CASAROLI

Secretary of State

+ SEBASTIANUS Card. BAGGIO

Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops

Iosephus Del Ton, Protonotary Apostolic

Marcellus Rossetti, Protonotary Apostolic

Loco + Plumbi

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(ⁿ Indicates that the text has been updated)

Original wording of the articles modified by His Holiness Pope Francis (cf. Apostolic Letter issued "Motu Proprio" Ad charisma tuendum, July 14, 2022, effective August 4, 2022):

V

The Prelature is under the Sacred Congregation for Bishops, and will also deal directly with the other Congregations or Departments of the Roman Curia, according to the nature of the matter involved.

VI

Through the Sacred Congregation for Bishops, the Prelate will present to the Roman Pontiff, every five years, a report on the state of the Prelature, and on the development of its apostolic work.

Note: Recently this Prelature will report to the Congregation for the Clergy, and his report will be every year. This acordingly to the Reform of the Roman Curia.

Comment: The most important things about OPUS DEI are its carismas, they are identical, there is no change at all, it is a matter of administration in the Reform of the Roman Curia, so there is no need of being worried.

Compiled by,   Jorge Casas. 

LET¨S MEDITATEABOUT JESUS CHRIST THIS CHRISTMAS.

 LEST´S MEDITATE ABOUT JESUS CHRIST.

He lived in the time of “Augusto and Tiberio, emperors of the empire of Rome, his comtemporaries saw him working with his hands as a carpenter, probably with a chip of wood in his ear, as a sign of his trade, he walked in the ways that they can show us today. They saw him eating bread and olives and those fishes that are a delicacy for his fellow mates, at nigth they could see him in a mat or in a hammock, resting or sleeping, dead tired, just like any other man, similar to any one of us.

Never the less he said the most surprising words that can be heard: He said that he was the Messiah, that he was the person that would promote his “chosen people”  to its glory and culmination, and what is most surprising, that He was the Son of God. and they belived Him and acompany and escort Him  along those ways of Palestine, that He perenigrated through.

Prodigies  came out of his hands with surprising easyness, miracles of resurrections, miraculous cures, exortions, etc. however many of them hoped for a political liberation from the romans, but his thing was spiritual, and for the culmination of it, the end of his normal existance, all came with a stroke to wich He did not put resistance. But far from geting discouraged, his followers spread through all the world sealing with blood the testimony of his divinity and from then on, the humanity has converted that defeat in proof of his victory  and prostrate to the cross, ( his gallows,  just imagine what would have to happen to make of the electric chair an adorable thing )

All his life, from his birth, his childhood, and adult existence was pletoric of supernatural evidence, and at the third day of his death by unjust execution,  he resurrected by his own power. St Paul says that this is what confirms our faith, and if the ressurection had not taken place, our faith would have been useless. BUT HE DID,  AND ALL WHAT HE LEFT US IS VALID: THE REVELATION THE TRADITION, THE GOSPELS, ETC.

Speaking of his Gospels the Evangelical Beatitudes, taken as an example have possitibly influenced the humanity since they were known, and will stay for all menkind  until the end of times. It is amazing what Jesus Christ, taugth, for our salvation, the Doctrine left for us, the Church he founded, the gospels, Revelation and Tradition, inherited to his followers, and the rest of humanity, in all the extention of its meaning. Nothing on earth has the value of the Sacraments, that his church enables, being the Holy Mass the center of our catholic life, it is the commemoration of the Sacrifice that he offers as  victim, to God Father, for the love of us. This is a double consideration, he offers himself in painful passion for He loves us and the Father offers his son, to be sacrificed, also for the love of us.

In this days that we conmemorate His Nativity, it is very usefull for our spirituality to contemplate this ítems, along with the rolls of the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph, that took such important and vital participation in His comming to this world, the gospels of this liturgical time, tell those important happenings. We must pay special attention to them.

Jorge Casas y Sánchez.

FRAGMENT OF ENCICLICAL "REDEMPTOR HOMINIS".

This post is a fragment of the enclical of Saint John Paul II, I consider that we should not forget what his way of thinking and acting, was. It Will alwais be actual.

  Redemptor Hominis (Redeemer of Man), promulgated on the 4th March, 1979, was the first encyclical of John Paul II. The Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla had been elected Pope John Paul II in October 1978, after the very brief pontificate of John Paul I (AugustSeptember 1978; Paul VI had been Pope from 1963-1978. John Paul II was the first nonItalian Pope since the early sixteenth century). Like John Paul I, John Paul II chose a name which combined the names of the two Popes of the Second Vatican Council (1962- 65), John XXIII and Paul VI, in order to emphasize that he was committed to the legacy of the Council, in which he had been an active participant. Commitment to Vatican II This commitment is very clear in Redemptor Hominis, in which John Paul II emphasizes the great achievement of Gaudium et Spes, the Council’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. At the Council, he had also been an important supporter of Dignitatis Humanae, the Declaration on Religious Freedom, arguing that the Church could not insist on its own freedom from Communist oppression unless it extended full religious freedom to non-Catholics in traditionally Catholic countries such as Spain and Portugal. The ‘cold war’ context Karol Wojtyla was born in 1920, had found his vocation to the priesthood during the Nazi occupation of Poland and been consecrated bishop during the post-war Stalinist dictatorship. He had been a professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin and was Cardinal Archbishop of Krakow at the time of his election as Pope. When Redemptor Hominis was issued, global politics were still bound up with the ‘Cold War’, the tension between the Soviet Union and its satellite states and the United States of America and its allies. The Communist government of North Vietnam had conquered South Vietnam in 1975. Some parts of Portugal’s former African empire had become Soviet-aligned. There was to be a Soviet invasion of Afghanistan at the end of 1979. Although the end of the ‘Cold War’ was little more than a decade away, geopolitical tensions were high at the time when Redemptor Hominis was issued. The call for human rights The call for human rights was also gaining in strength at this time. The US President Jimmy Carter (in office 1976-80), a devout Baptist, sought to make respect for human rights an important criterion in the foreign policy of the United States. This resulted in tensions between the Carter administration and military dictatorships in Latin America, which had formerly enjoyed more American support. Liberation theology had been 1 gaining influence in Latin America throughout the 1970s, and John Paul’s relationship to liberation theology was to be an important aspect of his pontificate in the 1980s. First visit to Poland – the ‘Solidarity’ movement A few months after issuing Redemptor Hominis, John Paul II made his first pontifical visit to Poland. Attracting huge crowds, he reminded his fellow Poles of the Christian roots of their culture, and affirmed them in their struggle for human rights. In the next year, 1980, the Solidarity movement began to challenge the dictatorship of the Communist Party, and John Paul II was to give it crucial advice and support in the following years of struggle until the end of Communism in Poland in 1989. 2. Executive Summary Christ the centre of history The central theme of Redemptor Hominis is the centrality of Jesus Christ in human history and as the answer to the human search for meaning and identity. Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes was a reflection on the situation of humanity in the mid-twentieth century that constantly returned to Christ as the true meaning of humanity, the one who reveals us to ourselves. Redemptor Hominis takes up this theme and develops it as the charter of John Paul II’s pontificate. The argument with Marxism-Leninism and other ‘materialisms’ The encyclical was deeply influenced by the imposition of Marxist atheism on Poland. In a very important sense, it was a Christian answer to Marxism-Leninism, which had sought to weaken and eventually abolish the Catholic Church. Yet the encyclical does not see Marxism-Leninism as the only enemy of authentic humanity: it is critical of any form of power or set of attitudes that degrades the human person, including other forms of materialism, such as consumer capitalism. Marx’s theory of religious and economic alienation As a professor of philosophy and church leader in the post-war period, Karol Wojtyla had had to resist Communist ideology and Communist power in many different contexts. At the same time, he was eager to debate with Marxist thinkers and to engage with the foundations of Marxist thought. For Marx, ‘the root of man is man himself’(Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, 1844): in this atheistic world-view, there is no purpose to human existence other than what human beings can shape for themselves through work and historical struggle. Marx had argued that human beings lose their humanity in a multi-dimensional process he called ‘alienation’. In religious alienation (and here Marx drew heavily on the philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach), humanity seeks hope and meaning in the false consolation of heaven: rather than realizing that only struggle in this world can liberate us from oppression, human beings become resigned to injustice by 2 transferring or ‘alienating’ all their hopes to the next world. (It is fair to note that the early nineteenth-century Christian response to industrialization gave Marx some evidence for this judgement.) In economic alienation, human beings become enslaved to their own products. Their work and ingenuity is transformed into ‘capital’, the accumulation of wealth, and this capital in turns rules them, making work into drudgery and bondage, rather than the spontaneous expression of the human capacity to transform nature. John Paul II’s response to Karl Marx Karol Wojtyla accepted some of Marx’s insights concerning economic alienation. He was critical of any economic system that deprived work of its human character, that made the products of work more important than the human person, the subject of work. At the same time, he rejected the utopian illusions of Marxism, the belief that the abolition of private ownership of the means of production would usher in a classless society of spontaneous work. In its Stalinist form, it had in fact become a totalitarian dictatorship. John Paul II’s reflections on the meaning of work as a dimension of our humanity were to be developed in his third encyclical Laborem Exercens (On Human Labour) (1981). A foundation of Redemptor Hominis is the rejection of the Marxist idea of religious alienation. Whereas Marx had argued that ‘Communism is the solution to the riddle of history, and knows itself to be the solution’ (Communist Manifesto, 1848), Redemptor Hominis is inspired by the faith that Jesus Christ is at the centre of human history, and that faith in Jesus Christ is not alienating, but rather the true source of fulfilled and joyful human existence. 3. Key Points of the Document Christ, the revealer of the mystery of humanity Redemptor Hominis (RH) is a proclamation of Christ’s central role in human history as the redeemer of humanity. It affirms the highest values of modern humanism - religious freedom and social justice - and seeks to relate Christian proclamation to the universal human search for meaning – to the transcendent dimension of the human person. Its central message is that Christ is the answer to this search. It affirms a key passage of Gaudium et Spes: ‘The truth is that only in the mystery of the Incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light’ (GS 22; RH 8). Drawing on this teaching of Vatican II, Redemptor Hominis proclaims Jesus Christ as the revelation of the meaning of our humanity, the divine manifest in the human. Our redemption takes place within human history, since Christ is present in that history and shares our human condition in all things but sin.

IN RELATION TO OUR SALVATIO AND LOVE

 IN RELATION TO OUR SALVATION  AND LOVE.                                                                                           1

 

GOD gives us life and Pope Johanes Paulus II, says to us: …”human life in general has value in the sense and measure that it is the answer to the question: ¿ do you love ¿, ¿do you love me” ? . Only  thanks to the affirmative answer, life is worth to be lived. And I say to you, ¿how is it posible not to love, God father, Jesus Christ, the second person, and the Holy Spirit,  of the Trinity one God?  All we are is given to us  by God Creator, our existance, life, and all we have as unrrepeatable person. Jesus is the savior that gives his own life for our salvation, and the Holy Spirit that inspires us all we need to win the promises of the Eternal life of happiness. Owr soul´s main duty is to love God and after that mankind, all humanity, of course with the preference of our nearest family.

Lets for a moment remember what Jesus does for us: He lived as human, being God and all what this is, he took human flesh, and being perfect God, he is (and was among us a perfect man), same as us in all except sin, he was absolutely pure all his life. His love of us is greater, much greater tan ours for him, in all cases. He formed his apostles, and through them left us the Gospels. He iniciated the only true church:  The Only, Holy,  Catholic,  Apostolic, Roman Church, and its Sacraments. In his agony,  nailed to the Holy Cross, He gave us his own Mother as our Mother (in Heaven). He gives us the Doctrine, the example of his family and personal life, he sufered injustice, was hited, lashed, tortured, crowned with spines, insulted, and finnaly crucified. And all He did was good and only good, curing, saving the possessed by demons, teaching, forming  women and men, performed miracles  bringing to life the dead.  Finally, gave his own human life dying in agony for us,  crucified in the cross, the instrument of torture of the romans and other civizations of those times, and He did it for  our salvation. His love for each one of us, (all humanity) is eternal, it exists for ever before we were nothing, He allready loved us.  ¿HOW NOT TO LOVE THIS?.

The plan for us menkind from God, after the Original Sin, and according with his promise is: the anouncement by the prophets of the incarmation of the Second Person of the Holy Trinity,  that was among us to grant the possibility of salvation for those who believe in Jesus Christ, and that follow his doctrine, obey the Commandments of his Law and his Church, in other words those who follow God´s will. ¿HOW NOT TO LOVE THIS?.

In regard to the Holy Spirit, we must remember what was said  by Jesus, before He went back to His Father in Haven, ….”I most go away, and it is for your advantage, because the Counsellor will come, and He will bring to you, from the Father the spirit of truth,  and speak what the Father tells Him, he will guide you to all the truth and bear witness to my teachings”.…….He will with his precense among you strenghten and deepen the conciousness of its divine presence and our human misión. ¿HOW NOT TO LOVE THIS?

  Accepting the spirit of obedience, accepting the command: “ feed my lambs” given to saint Peter and trough him to all of us,  this is the reason why we have to keep and promote our religión, helping its permanece in time, wich we do first of all trough our own children, that we must introduce into catholic faith, and then after, to wich we can, and that is true love,  do our own apostolate.

Since we receive so much love from God, in return seeking others to love him, trough knowing him, given that we cannot love what we do not know. Making known  God and his religión is how we contribute to the development of chistinity, this can be done in every place we are living. Lets remember that first is praying, second friendship and only third teaching those who know less tan we do. Let us seek the help of our Mother of heaven, by asking in pray, for  her to enligthen us to do our apostolate duty whith love of God. ¿ HOW NOT TO LOVE THIS ? .

Jorge Casas y Sánchez.

JESUS OF NAZARETH.

 JESUS OF NAZARETH. 

By the observation af any thing in nature, and practically every thing, not hand made, or designed, wether it is pysical or chemical, or mechaninal,  by human persons, whether it is inert, living, physical, chemical, can and should be considered to belong to nature, including humanity. We are the most important part of Creation and of nature due to being the only reasoning creatures created by God.

Taking in account what is been said, we can see that God Creator is love, and that The bears  love to every creature, specialy us, mankind on earth, and he sent his son  into the world to save us fron Adam and Eve´s Original sin, and all the sins that we commit in our lives, if we repent and go to the Sacrament of confession in order to obtain his pardon, such is his love of us.

This words of Jesus Christ: “If I be lifted  up on the cross I will drive into me all mankind “, this prophecy of himself was a reality and is being completed as per today, as we can see the missionaries moving to every corner of the planet in order to preach his Holy Gospel, and convert those who listen to them.

In the synagogue he unrolled the hebrew scriptures and picked the following: “ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me bcause  he hath anoited me to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sigth to the blind,  to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach  the aceptable year of the lord”.

How few of us, there are who know our own failing, see into our hearts, what is really good for us, in those  parts of his teachings. He was clear to tell us, mankind, that he came for the saving of the irreligious or the non religious, to those that thougth little of themselves, to the rough working with their hands, to the heretical samaritans,  to the heathen soldier, to the poor peasants to the swarming population of Galilee, so as we see, our relation to Jesus of Nazareth, should be not ony be for our salvation, but for the knowledgment of God until the limits of our capabilities, and our love of The, since, as it is widely known, we cannot love what we do not know. The Catholic Church is devoted to  its apostolic and catechesis activities in all the stratum of society, but with option for the: humble, neglected, dangerous, friendless, oppresed, forgoten, unthougth, uncared and poor.

We do not refer with these adjetives to the material status only, but to the spiritual, as well.

This is the way we help others to their own salvation and get our own, for doing it. Our work weather it is done in the instances and directions of our church, or given under guidelines from a catholic organisation to wich we belong. In other words, our dedication should follow the instructions of the Pope Franciscus, that has told us, that we have to take our efforts to the street. Meaning that we have to look for the developing,  of the catholic church following  the teachings of Jesus and his example. It is a matter of our love for the others. “ one new commandment I give you, that you love one another”. Thy loves us from eternity, and wants us to love all his creation, starting with our neighbors, and then our common house, the earth. Lets ask ourselves: ¿do I realy love the others? ¿do I try to keep our planet unpoluted?.

All the activities that we do in these fields,  are a treasure that we invest in Heaven, where it does not rust or be  stolen or deteriorated and in due time Jesus our King,  judge, legislator, savior, will take this treasure in account, and for our favour. If we seriously thik of these, we will see the enormous convenience of carrying it out, because we are speaking of eternity, inmediatly after we are called by our Creator to the afterlife. Our earthly existence is short compared to eternity, and we have been created for it, so we better do the best we can, in this life, to save ourselves.

Lets pray to our Mother in Heaven, the holy Virgin Mary, for her help that we need, intervening for the strength, discipline, perseverance, we must have,  in order to comply with God´s will.

Jorge Casas y Sánchez.

LOOSING OUR TRADITIONAL VALUES

 

VALUES BEING LOST.   

In the begining of christianity our traditional values started, in the begining with the church fathers time, in feudalism, and the middle ages values  grew, they were kept and lived, and gave a substratum to the occidental, western European civilization and the rest of the world, other new religions took them as precious  parts of their beleives, before, civilization did not have difficulty in stablishing them, at the reinessance they started to be lost, and with the french revolution, many were simply forgotten. Step by step the influence of the catholic church, that has been the origin and defender of them has been loosing its influence.

Persons in the old times did not have the distractors of modern times, from the end of the XVIII century reading became popular, books reached the middle and lower clases, the comunication technology has supplemented reading and instead, the popular electronics of tv., inteligent tablets and lap tops, móvil phones that are practicaly computers, that are full of information, memories,  photographs, games, news practicaly at the time they are happening, have taken the much of the place of books, now academic and technology texts are in its place,  all around the globe. Persons used to read books much more than today.

Some values are in use in bussines as indispensable issues, and others are thaugth, specially with offspring at home, but not enough. It is very little family comunication, here the technology is widely used by youths in poor conversations with their friends. Some parents use modern technology  very conveniently when the offspring are away from home, and they use it with great advantages for their studies, investigation, general information, But not all is good, there is a perverse side of it, dangerous to the kids and persons of all ages, from young to oldies. Some examples of this are, improper films, pornography, wich can reach  despicable addictions, fake news and wrong information, it is also a political instrument, widely used, in many oportunities to deceive audience. This shows us the need of applying new manners of teaching values, in accord with times.

Regarding computer technology, in our horizon we have to learn how to win the needed battles, trying to erase the dark side and enhence the good part of technology, being consent, of the advantages that a good use grants, and the evil it can generate if used wrongfully, this can be succesful if values are well teached in order to be well understood.

Of course this is a responsability in the first place of the parents, but also goverments must play its roll, in centers of education and also in general information to the public in the mass advertisement. If this points are not well taken care off, the society will suffer pains, and the ideologies will spread its bad influence.

Human persons are generaly open to assimilation of the good education, but if it is not realy active then come the bad ways of thinking and acting. The catholic church is alwais very aware of the problem of the value lost, and acting, but needs our support and help, this is not a simple task, we all must take part of it in a very responsable way.

Jorge Casas y Sánchez.