On the afternoon of Sunday, October 18, the superiors and pastoral coordinators of Latin America met by zoom with the Apostolate Councilor, Rocío Pérez de Ayala, to become aware of the importance of a topic that sometimes we leave relegated to very specific moments in the practice of our Youth Ministry: spiritual accompaniment, understood as a fundamental mediation in the path of every disciple of Jesus, whatever their state of life.
We begin with a prayer in which we look at the way of acting of the Companion with whom the Emmaus disciples met, to continue making us aware that not all of us understand the same when talking about this issue, nor do all the practices respond to what we want to promote from this Plan “And he started walking with them”.
We made a brief tour of the steps taken from last April until now with the aim of “Promote the culture of spiritual accompaniment among young people and in the YMW of our Institute”. We knew that, what was presented now, It was not a document to be analyzed, but a concern to be channeled, looking for means that, without involving many additional actions, make us take advantage of some opportunities to deal with the subject openly more naturally. In this way we could approach, from the findings from which we started, to a horizon that we envisioned as desirable and necessary, included in the Plan in five items, and with which we would be responding to an insistent church call.
"We needs exercise ourselves in the art of listening,
which is more than hearing ... hence it is necessary «A pedagogy that leads people, step by step, to the full assimilation of the mystery". To reach a point of maturity, that is, so that people are capable of truly free and responsible decisions, it is necessary to give time, with immense patience "
(EG 171).
