Diocese: Msgr. Turazzi (San Marino-Montefeltro) to students, “mature is those who know how to remain open, curious, available for research and dialogue”
“In these days you are preparing for the final exams, while many of your friends are already beginning to enjoy the summer. I relive with you the anxiety, the fatigue and the meaning of this event that marks a decisive and symbolic stage in your life. Beyond the results of the vote – however important, because of sacrifice and commitment – there is the imponderability of luck, luck: guessing the day in which you are in shape, being able to express the argument that most is in-depth, addressing the variables … However, we must not be too attached to the academic outcome as such “. These are the words that Msgr. Andrea Turazzi, bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro, writes in a letter addressed to the high school students recalling one of his professors who described the maturity as a myth, because it is never fully achieved. “Formation is either ongoing or it is not formation. Maturity is not reached by filling the brain, soul and heart with notions. Knowledge is not measured by the amount of knowledge. Mature is the one who knows how to remain open, curious, open to research and dialogue: he ‘knows he does not know’. I wish you to discover how generative is the relationship and the relationship with others in the present, in the past and in the future “. In the letter he quotes Plato and Letter VII, recalling how the high school exam is only a stage which, albeit between joy and satisfaction, must make us look to the future which represents a vocal turning point in search of one’s place, with many questions. “A word of Jesus comes to mind, incisive and strong, I think it may intrigue even friends of other convictions: ‘Duc in altum (put out into the deep)’. In fact, both in the context of study and in that of life, the transition from high school to work or university involves the achievement of a more significant autonomy to be managed wisely “. Msgr. Turazzi returns to his memories and the difficulties of the change of study method at the end of the high school journey, wishing the graduates a beautiful summer full of fruits, rest and interesting opportunities, aware that “the holiday is ‘free time’, not time empty … If anything, the holiday is living free full time! “. “I would like the Lord Jesus to be with you and to know how to recognize him in the encounter with others, in contact with the beauties of creation, the auroras on the Adriatic and the sunsets on Montefeltro”, concludes the bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro: ” the harder you reach, show unexpected events to overcome. And then there is the final exam: ‘I was hungry, did you feed me? I set, did you give me a drink? I was a stranger, did you welcome me? I was sick…’. Good luck!”.