Education, values and religion. Don Mangiarotti: “We cannot fail in the task and identity that characterize us”
The invitation to «write a new and noble page of history»
A great man has left us. Or perhaps he is even more present among us, not only because, for those who have faith, our deceased have not “disappeared” but live in God, but also because his teaching (in Rome, at his funeral which I attended, moved, someone has asked that Pope Benedict could be counted among the “doctors of the Church”) that his teaching remains as a shining light among the men of our time.
We have learned to love the truth, within the contradictions of our time. And to love it, even accepting to go against the tide, with the serene trust of being at the service of the truth about man.
Personally I have always admired in him, this meek and profound man of faith, the courage in facing the world, the dominant mentality, those who wanted and want to distort the image of man and society by erasing history and rights.
Like when, in his speech on the occasion of the presentation of the Roman Curia’s Christmas greetings in 2012, he reminded us of the truth of being a man, male and female.
He expressed himself thus: “If until now we had seen a misunderstanding of the essence of human freedom as the cause of the family crisis, it now becomes clear that the vision of being itself is at stake here, of what it actually means to be human. They [il Gran Rabbino di Francia] he quotes Simone de Beauvoir’s famous statement: “You are not born a woman, you become one”. In these words is given the foundation of what today, under the lemma “gender”, is presented as a new philosophy of sexuality. Sex, according to this philosophy, is no longer an original datum of nature that man must accept and personally occupy with meaning, but a social role which is decided accordingly, while until now it was society that decided it. The profound erroneousness of this theory and of the anthropological revolution underlying it is evident.»
I believe that this teaching still has its value and that it is necessary to learn and recognize it, also proposing it again in our context in which Law 127, which regulates IVG [l’aborto], as stated in art. 3: «The State also promotes, within the school system, sexual, reproductive and emotional education as an integral part of the growth and personal development of young people, in particular: (…) d) the idea of a sexuality to be lived with full awareness, even without procreative purpose.»
The One of Us Association, to face the emergency educational in place in our time, proposes, in the face of the threat of ideological and cultural “colonization” a school-family co-responsibility pact.
And invite everyone to meet with Father Giorgio Maria Carbone and the teacher Giusi D’Amico on 20 January 2023 at 21 in the Sala Montelupo (Domagnano) for listening and discussion with expert and committed personalities known for the promotion of a culture that values the responsibility of the family and society, in a context in which the prevailing statism risks suffocate any yearning for freedom.
In San Marino we have an appreciated and long-standing educational tradition, just think of the presence of the Salesians and the educational proposal of La Verna (thanks to Don Peppino) and Rocca Pietore (by the parishes). We are also heirs to a history of hospitality “without borders”, and we have always been supported by the responsibility and creativity of a people proud of their history.
We cannot fail in the task and identity that characterize us. And which Pope Benedict described with the words “present, enterprising and should”, thus inviting those who have the task of the common good: “Most Serene Captains Regent and illustrious Authorities of the Republic of San Marino, I cordially express the hope that the may your entire Community, in the commonality of civil values and with its specific cultural and religious peculiarities, write a new and noble page of history and become more and more a land in which solidarity and peace thrive.
Don Gabriel Mangiarotti