With great joy, from February 3 to 5, we received in our community of Ibarra the visit of the president of the Idente missionaries, Fr. Jesús Fernández Hernández, after signing the renewal of the agreement with the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) in Quito. In his words of welcome he told us how precious God’s time is and that we must be in an attitude of going out to do his will at every moment.
The next day he visited the “Fernando Rielo” Convention Centre at PUCE in Santo Domingo, greeted the young people and celebrated Mass at 6 p.m. This was attended by 250 people: the Idente family, altar boys, Idente youth and the work teams of the Idente missionaries, both from the university and from the school. In the Eucharist our president exhorted us to ask with faith for everything we need, without fear, with decision, and to live in every moment, with the desire to know and to dwell in the heart of the Heavenly Father. His homily was very beautiful and profound.
Then we shared a coffee with 120 people while the altar boys sang the “altar boys’ hymn” and a girl from the school dedicated a poem of approximately 10 minutes about the Eucharist. At the end our Primate, in a particular way and at the request of the parents, imparted the blessing to the families that were present. It was a very emotional moment because both the parents and the children received the blessing with a lot of faith.
To be able to share with the Idente family, with parents of the missionaries from Ibarra, with people who work in the school and in the university, has been a blessing for everyone. Several people commented that they had never been to such a special Eucharist and that the homily had touched their hearts.
The next day he visited the children of the Catholic Educational Unit La Victoria, which is located in a building that is being built, the children greeted him with innocence and they dedicated the song “missionary soul” to him. It was a beautiful visit: everyone was happy. At the end he advised us to plant more trees, because the children have to protect themselves from the sun, which was very strong at that time. Then he left for the airport on his way to Loja.
!["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)
