His catechism classes fill the church with young people in a continent where Massgoers...
...are all elderly people.
His name is Fabio Rosini. He helps young people accept their limits. Improving their relationship with themselves helps them improve their relationship with God.
FR. FABIO ROSINI
Director of Vocations, Vicariate of Rome
“Having a good relationship with one's limits means having a good relationship with reality, because reality is full of limits.”
Fr. Fabio Rosini explains that limits shouldn't be seen negatively, but as characteristics that define one's identity.
FR. FABIO ROSINI
Director of Vocations, Vicariate of Rome
“If we want to understand what Italy is, first we draw its borders. We show exactly where Italy ends. Similarly, if I want to know who I am, I need someone to show me what my limits are so that I don't remain undefined.”
That's where parents come in. Fr. Rosini explains that a father figure plays an especially important role in a child's identity development.
FR. FABIO ROSINI
Director of Vocations, Vicariate of Rome
“The father represents that good limit that tells you, ''This is where you end. This is your boundary.'”
Nevertheless, Fr. Fabio says that his experiences in the last decades have shown him the opposite: that there are some parents who are incapable of saying “no” to their kids. He says the result is noticeable.
FR. FABIO ROSINI
Director of Vocations, Vicariate of Rome
“I realized something strange that I hadn't noticed before: that some young people didn't have fathers. I mean, they had them, but their fathers were very weak. This generation's dads are full of doubts. They're in the background, while mothers are strong. FLASH Young people tend to have a poor relationship with authority, because authority figures are sometimes ambiguous, exaggerated, in the wrong. But the point is that each of us has to develop a good relationship with a father figure, prescisely now, in a moment of paternal crisis, where the father figure is not clearly defined.”
This is one of the ideas he proposes in his book about St. Joseph. It's not merely a parenting guidebook; it's a reflection on the spirituality of Jesus' adoptive father. An example to follow.
FR. FABIO ROSINI
Director of Vocations, Vicariate of Rome
“God takes the initiative with St. Joseph, but He also does so with each of us. FLASH All of us are called to great things, but what I've seen with young people is that they lack the courage to believe in their own greatness. None of them has the courage to believe that God is speaking to them, that He is choosing them. We have a tendency to sabotage ourselves and destroy ourselves.”
In this book, written for the Year of St. Joseph, Rosini suggests following the example of Jesus' father, who responded to God's intitative and made Him a part of his life.
Javier Romero
TR: CT
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