Vocational crisis
and educational crisis
30. Often in our Churches the objectives and
even the basic strategy are clear, but the necessary steps for awakening an
openness to vocation in our young people remain somewhat undefined; and this
because today, more than before, the educational system is weak, both within
and outwith the Church: that system which, together with the definition of the
objective to be attained, must also provide the pedagogical paths leading
there. With its usual realism, the Instrumentum laboris also says this:
"In fact, we note the weakness of many pedagogical bodies (groups,
communities, oratories, schools and, above all, families)".(95)
The vocations crisis is certainly also a crisis of pedagogy and of educational
programmes.
We will seek then, always beginning from the
Word of God, to highlight precisely this convergence between goal and method,
in the conviction that a good theology can normally be translated into
practice, become a pedagogy, can outline routes, with the sincere desire to
provide the various pastoral workers with an aid, an instrument useful to all.
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