In our networks, the announcement of an online meeting entitled:“¿Did you know that ... not all of us understand the same by Spiritual Accompaniment?” Let's talk about it ... ",it was crossing borders in Latin America for almost a month of diffusion.
Those interested were writing their private messages on Instagram @pjvhcr, from where they were answered by being interested in their place of origin and motivation to attend the meeting and finally sending them a registration form ...
In this way, and thanks to the good collaboration of the sisters who animated the initiative at local levels, we were able to form 3 groups of participants of about 15-18 people in each from them, with 4 different nationalities, but the same interest: delve into a topic they wanted to clear up some confusing ideas about.
On Sundays 13 and 20 September the 3 meetings took place.
In them, after contemplating some images allowing us to interrogate and writing in the chat the questions that arose in the prayer on this topic, the participants they were able to clarify issues that they themselves had underlying, such as what differentiated the accompaniment of friendship, psychotherapy, directing, taking away the freedom of the subject or merely advising ... Also, some young people made a resonance in their evaluation, the importance of understanding this type of help as a relationship of three people, because in the conversation God is always present, illuminating both the companion and the companion and allowing himself to be found in the midst of what happens in the person's life, which, after all, is the main content of the conversation. A good companion, we concluded, does not transmit God because he is continually naming him, but because he is capable of producing, in the encounter, the same thing that the presence of God produces in people.
