Witnesses of the Resurrection

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Witnesses of the Resurrection
Isabel Correa
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Description of session

• Young people today need models of faith
  Witnesses of the Resurrection (Luke 2433-35)
  that can concretely relate to their daily
  ordinary life experiences. Teens and young
  adults live in a media saturated world that
  continuously influences the building of their
  identity. They are presented with a multitude of
  images, models, values, paradigms and social
  structures that are often distorted or void of
  evangelical values, especially in the area of
  love, sexuality and relationships. This session
  aims at exploring what it means to be a Witness
  of the Resurrection in the lives of young people
  today. We will look at the elements which
  facilitate the building of these trusting
  spiritual relationships, necessary to encourage
  and accompany young people to discover the
  essence of being made in the image of God by
  proposing Jesus Christ as a relevant model for
  becoming good, honest Christian citizen the
  Saints of the New Millennium.

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Objective

• Exploring what it means to be a Witness of the
  Resurrection in the lives of young people today.
• Identify elements which facilitate the building
  of trusting spiritual relationships, necessary
  to encourage and accompany young people to
  discover the essence of being made in the image
  of God by proposing Jesus Christ as a relevant
  model for becoming good, honest Christian
  citizen the Saints of the New Millennium.

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What is a Witness?
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What is a Witnesses of the Resurrection (Luke
2433-35)
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The Call to be Witnesses of the Resurrection

• Where are we called to witness?

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• The challenges of the contemporary world
• Complex Reality
• Transformation of Time and Space

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Framework for a critical reading of today

• Parameters of the Youth World
• The need for involvement
• Parallel Lives different ways of organizing
  Time
• From Multi cultural to intercultural
  relationships
• A new kind of communication Virtual World
• Resources and limits of multi-belonging
• Uncertainty in choices uncertainty regarding
  the Future
• Openness o the desire for God The Search for
  Spirituality

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A new kind of communication Virtual World
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Resources and limits of multi-belonging
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Uncertainty in choices uncertainty regarding
the Future
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Openness o the desire for God The Search for
Spirituality
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How do we help Young people become Witness of the
Resurrection?

• Becoming witness our selves. Disciples need
  other disciples.

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The response of Youth Ministry
Encountering the Risen Christ
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• The primary goal of the youth ministry is to lead
  young people to meet Jesus of Nazareth.
• The humanity of Jesus is the point of reference
  for every interpersonal relationship. In him we
  see a shining example of relationships rich in
  interiority, mutuality and closeness that draw on
  the sources of his divine sonship.

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THE FIVE RELATIONSHIPS OF DISCIPLES
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• Recognizing Jesus of Nazareth as a model for
  authentic relationships.
• With God as Father
• A filial relationship

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Jesus source of new humanism

• With Jesus as Master

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With the Holy Spirit as guide

• Relationship rich in interiority
• Holy Spirit Master of the interior life
• With others as brothers and sisters
• Relating as neighbours

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Critical approach to relationships

• With things, with freedom
• Caring relationships

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Respectful relationships capable of wonder

• EXPERIENCE as a school of life
• Growing in Love
• A family environment

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Love and freedom

• Service freely given
• Education to self giving
• Interiority and Prayer
• Education to Interiority
• Education to Chrisian Prayer
• Sharing the WORD
• The Word listened to, shared and proclaimed
• Experience of the Paschal Mystery
• Celebrating in Spirit and truth

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Eucharist and reconciliation
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The Gospel A Light for Life

• Mary, Mother and educator
• The presence of Mary as Mother
• Making Experiences MEANINGFUL
• Experience of everyday Life

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The Group dynamic
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Active involvement.
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Vocational
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Strategies to prioritize

• Form Ourselves and Work Together

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Accompaniment of Young people

• Networking through Movement of Groups working
  together
• Promoting Youth Leadership
• Missionaries of the New Millennium

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Coordination for Communion
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Accompaniment of Young People

• The relationship of Accompaniment

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How to Accompany Methodological Guidelines

• Knowing Oneself and Ones History

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The Journey Towards Christian Maturity
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Vocational Discernment

• Jesus Way of Empowerment
• Four Discipleship roles Leadership styles
• Instructor - Directing

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What is a Witness?
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Someone who has experienced for themselves an
event, an experience,.and is able to give an
account of what they experienced. They are able
to go back and reread the experience and take
note of how this experience has impacted their
life.
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This experience can either be good or bad.
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What is a Witnesses of the Resurrection (Luke
2433-35)
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When we look at his we need to define for
ourselves what the Resurrection is. Or better
said Who is the Resurrection?
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If we think of the resurrection as an event that
happened 2000 years ago only..Who of us was
there? Who can be a witness?
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If we think of the resurrection as an event that
is perpetual or as the experience of the
Paschal Mystery such as what we experience in the
Eucharist.
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Source and summit of the Churchs life, the
Eucharist is a perpetual Pentecost since every
time we celebrate Mass we receive the Holy Spirit
who unites us more deeply with Christ and
transforms us into Him. My dear young friends, if
you take part frequently in the eucharistic
celebration, if you dedicate some of your time to
adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, the Source of
love which is the Eucharist, you will acquire
that joyful determination to dedicate your lives
to following the Gospel. At the same time it will
be your experience that whenever our strength is
not enough, it is the Holy Spirit who transforms
us, filling us with his strength and making us
witnesses suffused by the missionary fervour of
the risen Christ.
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MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER BENEDICT XVITO THE
YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE WORLDON THE OCCASION OF THE
XXIII WORLD YOUTH DAY, 2008

• The primary goal of the youth ministry is to lead
  young people to meet Jesus of Nazareth.
• The humanity of Jesus is the point of reference
  for every interpersonal relationship. In him we
  see a shining example of relationships rich in
  interiority, mutuality and closeness that draw on
  the sources of his divine sonship.

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The human person, created in the image of God,
grows and matures in all its dimensions through
the experience of relating. This helps one to
unify cognitive, motivational and social
potential around important values.
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By offering diversified experiences we give the
young people the possibility of interpreting
everyday life, illuminating it and gradually
acquiring a Gospel style of relating modelled on
that of Jesus.
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From Jesus and from his fundamental relations
with his Father, with himself, with others and
with creation, we can draw criteria to help young
people to build positive relations that give
quality to their lives.
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You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has
come upon you and you will be my witnesses
(Acts 18)
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MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER BENEDICT XVITO THE
YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE WORLD ON THE OCCASION OF THE
XXIII WORLD YOUTH DAY, 2008
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The human person, created in the image of God,
grows and matures in all its dimensions through
the experience of relating. This helps one to
unify cognitive, motivational and social
potential around important values.
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By offering diversified experiences we give the
young people the possibility of interpreting
everyday life, illuminating it and gradually
acquiring a Gospel style of relating modelled on
that of Jesus.

• 79. The evangelising dimension of youth ministry,
  in order to be stimulating and missionary,
  requires planning that gives pride of place to
  the proclamation of the Gospel as good news for
  the life of every young person, not just those
  who frequent our educational environments.
• Our proposal, therefore, needs to offer
  individualised programmes capable of responding
  to the different sensitivities of the young
  people those who still have to hear the Gospel
  for the first time or to begin living as
  Christians again, those who have already been
  socialised from a religious point of view or
  those who are marginalised and disadvantaged.
• In this process, we commit ourselves to take on a
  planning mentality and to identify ways of
  reaching young people where they are, to educate
  them to the search for meaning. We commit
  ourselves to a ministry of presence that guides
  young people to mature gradually in their
  confession of faith in God the Father, Son and
  Holy Spirit.

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