A group of students from the school “La Victoria” visited the mayor of the city of Ibarra – Ecuador a few days ago to request sports courts in the new school that is being built.
The mayor received the delegation of students (children of 10, 11 and 14 years old) and his rector, Pilar Morales, idente missionary, with much openness and surprise. The students manifested their friendship and the list of petitions with innocence, among them they asked for a sports court for the school. It was a simple but profound dialogue.
Martín, 10 years old, challenged the mayor of Ibarra to play a game of basketball in the old courts, since the mayor is a great basketball player; the marvelous thing is that Martín persuaded him for the match because he asked him technical questions from his spontaneity, and the mayor accepted the invitation. During the visit, the mayor’s face changed; He was very happy talking with the children, in short, they offered him a different day. At the end of the conversation, Isabela gifted him a plant and told him that “she was gifting it because he had a heart of gold.” The mayor told them to prepare, that he wants to make a good match.
This commitment led Martin to find among his friends the best athletes. The expected day arrived, with the punctuality of the case, the players showed up and the match was played, with the joy of the children present there and the simplicity of the mayor. Martín feels a student committed with the Institution, with the conviction that the heart of the mayor was conquered to start a very good work in his school, which lacks sports fields.
At the end of the game, the mayor who came with 20 people who accompanied him, proceeded to observe the space where they can build the courts and confirmed his offer to the children. With innocence and spontaneity great things are achieved.
!["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)
