I’m currently reading Dante’s Divine Comedy, which begins with these somber words:
“Midway along the journey of our life
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
for I had wandered off from the straight path.”
I think there are a lot of people who feel this same way today. We can feel lost and blind, like the narrator at the beginning of this video:
As Catholic educators, our mission is to help our students see that Christ is present in their lives. It is through knowing Christ that they will be able to experience fullness of life. As the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education puts it,
“Lay Catholic educators in schools, whether teachers, directors, administrators, or auxiliary staff, must never have any doubts about the fact that they constitute an element of great hope for the Church. The Church puts its trust in them entrusting them with the task of gradually bringing about an integration of temporal reality with the Gospel, so that the Gospel can thus reach into the lives of all men and women. More particularly, it has entrusted them with the integral human formation and the faith education of young people. These young people are the ones who will determine whether the world of tomorrow is more closely or more loosely bound to Christ.” – Lay Catholics in Schools: Witnesses to Faith
Christ is waiting. Let’s help our children see Him.