wrote a little speech for the day of graduation from college. Then share it.
The arrival of a new millennium has meant the development of humanity important scientific, technological and social. Each day brings new discoveries in all fields of knowledge, especially in bioengineering, genetic engineering, new technologies. As a result, h o we enjoy great advances in prevention and health therapy Having a progressive increase in life expectancy. Today is present in all areas of life the mass media and new information technologies has generated distribution networks worldwide information . Thanks to all this, the world is experiencing an explosion n ew cultural patterns of social relations.
But despite this, we see other realities: Also today ay h greater inequalities in development between the countries, and the poor are getting poorer . It continues to promote unsustainable economic model that has generated a scandalous concentration of wealth in few hands. Currently the 250 richest people in the world possess the same wealth as the poorest 40% of the world's population. Increases unemployment has been increasing emigration or na population of poorer countries and conflicts to rich countries, creating a suffering people uprooted and excluded. We generated inhuman cities, neighborhoods where we live locked and do not know your neighbor. In developed countries there is a remarkable low birth and a high rate of separations and divorces humanity suffer from the threats on the environment ; s and multiply powers terrorists and mobsters outbreaks around the world, forces capable of challenging any nation. It attaches great importance to the present moment and easy success, has created a culture that values \u200b\u200b to "take" over "being."
Despite progress there are still hungry, exclusion, sickness, misery. We live at the expense of others, abusing weaker "who can show us the true humanity? [1]
This is the world we live in, and these are the challenges of our generation. We can not remain indifferent to all this, and what we received in our line can not stay for our individual interests, however legitimate they may be. As Paul VI and today is the motto of our university, we must know more, more. Do not "is more" the more you have. It is more the more it is shared. And generosity is an inexhaustible source of goodness, truth, beauty. Octavio Paz said that " the ills of our societies have to do with freedom, justice and brotherhood. The bottom line is to have converted the individual in a manufacturing, no real freedom. The notion of people have disappeared because without freedom there is what we call person. " [2]
The journey is the attention to the totality of human aspirations and this does not give full or science or technology, either model social or political. A valid response is provided by the current pope. Benedict XVI said that criticized and misunderstood in Regensburg in 2006:
"Just knowing sadness. And indeed, who only see and perceive everything that happens in the world ends up sad. But truth means more than knowledge (...) Never can say that the way of man is fully completed and that the danger of falling into inhumanity has been completely ruled out, as we see in the panorama of contemporary history. Today, the danger of the world (...) is that man, precisely because of the greatness of his knowledge and power, surrenders before the question of truth. ( ...) Only able to (overcome) if reason and faith come together in a new way, if we overcome the limitation of reason imposes itself reduced to what can be verified through experimentation, and we turn to open their horizon in all its fullness. " [3]
Therefore, the challenge posed by the Pope to the University is to be truly universitas , to widen its current concept of reason, too narrow. It is a call for betting reason open to the whole of reality and faith, which means not falling into the "dictatorship of relativism " or chaos of fundamentalism or violence.
This response is not a theory, not an ideology, is a personal encounter. You claim to be the ultimate basis of reality and ultimate meaning of history. Be consistent with this involves creating a culture of solidarity, opt for the good of humanity, the doctrine of love in every situation. The challenge posed to Benedict XVI university is thus to discover the ultimate truth about life and the end of the story. Reads: " face personal struggles, moral confusion and fragmentation of knowledge, the noble goals of scholarship and education, founded on the unity of truth and service to the people and the community, are a powerful instrument of hope special. " [4]
This is the road. There is no other. The great English writer Gilbert said already tried all the mistakes, and it is time for truth. For anything or anyone else we can use. Only he, Peter, the fisherman of Galilee, he said, "You have the words life" [5] .
[1] Another humanity, Gen Rosso
[2] Octavio Paz: Literary Culture and Critical Theory , cit.: 157-158
[3] the Holy Father at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Tuesday September 12, 2006. Apostolic Journey of Pope Benedict XVI in Munich, and Regensburg Altötting, 9 - 14 September 2006.
[4] Cf Meeting with Catholic educators, speech of His Holiness Benedict XVI in his apostolic visit to the United States of America and visit the headquarters of the United Nations. Conference Room of the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, April 17, 2008.
[5] Jn 6, 68.
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