In Quito, on February 3, 2020, an academic ceremony was held to sign the renewal of the agreement that the Society of Jesus and the PUCE Matriz have with the Institute of Idente Missionaries for the direction, administration and management of the PUCE headquarters in Ibarra and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas.
In addition to Fr. Dr. Jesús Fernández Hernández M.Id., President of the Idente Missionaries, the Rector, Vice-Rector, Prorectors of the other branches, the Academic Director, the Secretary General and other authorities of the PUCE Matriz were also present. The PUCESD was represented by the Prorector, the Vice-Rector and the Director of Students, the Leader of PUCEMAS. The PUCESI was represented by its Prorector, Vice-Prorector and Academic Director. The President was accompanied by two members of his Council: Dr. José Barbosa M.Id., outgoing Rector of the UTPL and Engineer Jesús María González M.Id.
The event began with a lecture to which Dr. Fernandez had been invited on “Christ in the Chair of Universities”, which aroused great interest among all those present. Among many other ideas presented, he said: “Without in any way neglecting the acquisition of useful knowledge, a Catholic University is distinguished by its free search for all truth about the nature of man and God” (John Paul II)… “Our communities – Jesuit and Idente – must be exponents of God’s presence in the world. This presence finds in Christ the supreme human and divine expression, that is the integral humanism sought by the wise; because culture and holiness are the binomial of success for the construction of that integral humanism of which Christ, the revealer of God and the revealer of man, is the Supreme Model. The classrooms of the Catholic University should be like a qualified laboratory of this humanism”… “Jesus Christ, in coming to this world, has brought the fullness of knowledge, the fullness of truth and of the truth that has to be taught in a perfectly organized way in all the chairs of all the universities, of all the academic centers of the world” (Fernando Rielo).
Then, before the signature of the renewal of the Agreement, the Rector, Dr. Fernando Ponce s.j., intervened and complemented what had been expressed, expressing among other wise reflections: “I as Rector, and as a Jesuit as well, am very happy with the signing of this Agreement because it ratifies the mission of the Catholic University and also corroborates that this mission is done with the collaboration of all sectors of the Church: the Idente Missionaries, the Society of Jesus, but also the committed laity,… All of us – Identes and Jesuits – consider ourselves collaborators among ourselves of Christ’s mission.
Not so much collaboration from one to the other, from this one to that one, because it is not that each one has his own mission; we have only one mission, which is finally the mission of Christ, to which we all collaborate, each one from our own specificities and from our particular charisma. Thank you, Idente Missionaries, for trusting us, the Society of Jesus; and for believing that with us you can also fulfill your mission of bringing Christ to the classroom, bringing Christ to society.
!["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)
