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This paper collects the speeches made at the traditional event of the «Thursday after Ash Wednesday», to which the academic community invites the presbyters and deacons of the Region, in order to prepare the Easter proclamation together. In the 2021 edition, the event took inspiration from a statement contained in the Christus vivit: «Once the Church […] listens carefully to the young, this empathy enriches her, for it allows young people to make their own contribution to the community, helping it to appreciate new sensitivities and to consider new questions» (n. 65). Young people were, therefore, attentively listened: which aspects of the Paschal Mistery of Christ are significant for them in their lives? What does the Church have to take into account, in the eyes of the young, in order to pass on the faith in the Risen Crucified Christ to their peers? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last three years a considerable number of analytical studies have been published dealing with the religious condition of young people in relation to the social, communication and cultural changes that are currently under way in our Country. This bibliographical review is the result of the philosophy Seminar held during the first term of the academic year 2017/2018 at the Faculty of Theology of Emilia-Romagna. With the contribution of the students attending the seminar, some recent literature has been proposed that: outlines the defining characters of young generations; reflects on the increasingly problematic and diversified relationship between young people and faith; raises the question concerning choices of life; is open to an intergenerational reading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The intervention intends to investigate, from a theological-spiritual perspective, some links between faith and vocation in the youth context, that appear sensitive and relevant today in view of discernment. The data from a recent qualitative survey highlights the difficult integration of the mediations and of the relational-affective aspect typical of the experience of Christian faith. The narrow investigation on some of vocation paths and on two qualified episodes highlights, on the other hand, the common origin of faith and vocation in the «Easter» experience of a personal encounter with the God of mercy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the method of evangelization followed by the priest V.D. Forno who, in the decades from 1941 to 1975, carried out his ministry in many towns of the Sicily and in Reggio Calabria. With a preference for young marginalized people and the world of work, he aimed at forming consciences by spreading the Gospel and the sacrament of penance and steering laypeople to apostolic involvement in the light of the social doctrine of the Church, with the aim of changing the reality of this world through the values of justice, solidarity and brotherhood. Feeling a growing need to give himself totally to the redemptive work of Christ, he invited other souls to follow him by offering their life in the footsteps of Mary Co-Redemptrix, thus establishing the secular institute of the Daughters of Mary Co-Redemptrix. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]