The first Motus Christi for teenagers took place in Germany on November 1st and 2nd. Thanks to the insistence of two young girls that asked for a meeting for them, about 15 young people came together from the surroundings of Berlin. The majority of the participants was non believing.
The topic of the Motus Christi was connected to the feast of the 1st of November, all saints day: Heroes and Saints. Through different activities we presented them everyday heroes looking at the relation with the saints and also they understood that they could be one.
We organized a scavenger hunt where they had to find little papers with names, fotos and information of various famous people that could serve as an example: Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Sophie Scholl, etc.
After the Mass of All saints day in which one boy played the piano and another one the guitar, the group was divided in different areas to prepare an atheneum. They presented poetry, a dance, theater, a song and music. We ended with a brief reflection and a song.
The next day the participants made a special “treasure hunt”. A missionary had a box and said that inside the box was a very important hero. The young people entered one by one into the chapel, and each of them discovered who this hero was. When they opened the box they found a mirror in which they saw themselves.
Another activity was that every teenager had a paper on his back on which the others had to write something positive about him or her. At the end, the paper was given to them as a diploma.
In the charismatic touch almost all of them expressed that they wanted to participate in another Motus Christi and asked for it to last more days. Surprisingly, many of the young people were most impressed by the holy mass.
We believe and hope that this encounter was only the beginning of many more that will help the young people to come closer to Christ with the desire to be saints.
!["El mundo puede cambiar desde el corazón"
(Papa Francisco, Encíclica Dilexit Nos)
"El Corazón de Cristo es éxtasis, es salida, es donación, es encuentro. En él nos volvemos capaces de relacionarnos de un modo sano y feliz, y de construir en este mundo el Reino de amor y de justicia. Nuestro corazón unido al de Cristo es capaz de este milagro social.
Tomar en serio el corazón tiene consecuencias sociales. Como enseña el Concilio Vaticano II, «tenemos todos que cambiar nuestros corazones, con los ojos puestos en el orbe entero y en aquellos trabajos que todos juntos podemos llevar a cabo para que nuestra generación mejore». Porque «los desequilibrios que fatigan al mundo moderno están conectados con ese otro desequilibrio fundamental que hunde sus raíces en el corazón humano». [21] Ante los dramas del mundo, el Concilio invita a volver al corazón, explicando que el ser humano «por su interioridad es, en efecto, superior al universo entero; a esta profunda interioridad retorna cuando entra dentro de su corazón, donde Dios le aguarda, escrutador de los corazones (cf. 1 S 16,7; Jr 17,10), y donde él personalmente, bajo la mirada de Dios, decide su propio destino».
Esto no significa confiar excesivamente en nosotros mismos. Tengamos cuidado: advirtamos que nuestro corazón no es autosuficiente; es frágil y está herido. Tiene una dignidad ontológica, pero al mismo tiempo debe buscar una vida más digna. Dice también el Concilio Vaticano II que «el fermento evangélico ha despertado y despierta en el corazón del hombre esta irrefrenable exigencia de la dignidad», aunque para vivir conforme a esa dignidad no nos basta conocer el Evangelio ni cumplir mecánicamente lo que nos manda. Necesitamos el auxilio del amor divino. Acudamos al Corazón de Cristo, ese centro de su ser, que es un horno ardiente de amor divino y humano y es la mayor plenitud que puede alcanzar lo humano. Allí, en ese Corazón es donde nos reconocemos finalmente a nosotros mismos y aprendemos a amar."](https://www.idente.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
