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- 1. CHAPTER TWO - A CULTURAL DREAM The Amazonian polyhedron Caring for roots Intercultural encounter Endangered cultures, peoples at risk
- 2. CHAPTER TWO- A CULTURAL DREAM The important thing is to promote the Amazon region, but this does not imply colonizing it culturally but instead helping it to bring out the best of itself. That is in fact what education is meant to do: to cultivate without uprooting, to foster growth without weakening identity, to be supportive without being invasive QA 28
- 3. That is in fact what education is meant to do: to cultivate without uprooting, to foster growth without weakening identity, to be supportive without being invasive QA 28
- 4. Just as there are potentialities in nature that could be lost forever, something similar could happen with cultures that have a message yet to be heard, but are now more than ever under threat. QA 28
- 5. The Amazonian polyhedron -The Amazon region is host to many peoples and nationalities, and over 110 indigenous peoples
- 7. Today, growing desertification once more drives many of them into the outskirts and sidewalks of the cities, at times in dire poverty
- 8. but also in an inner fragmentation due to the loss of the values that had previously sustained them QA 30
- 9. Forest fires seen from space
- 11. Each of the peoples that has survived in the Amazon region possesses its own cultural identity and unique richness in our multicultural universe, thanks to the close relationship established by the inhabitants with their surroundings in a non-deterministic symbiosis QA 31
- 12. Each distinct group, then, in a vital synthesis with its surroundings, develops its own form of wisdom. QA 32
- 13. 2 - Caring for roots– For those of them who are baptized, these roots include the history of the people of Israel and the Church up to our own day. Knowledge of them can bring joy and, above all, a hope capable of inspiring noble and courageous actions. QA 33
- 14. For centuries, the Amazonian peoples passed down their cultural wisdom orally, with myths, legends and tales, as in the case of “those primitive storytellers who traversed the forests bringing stories from town to town, keeping alive a community QA 34
- 15. some peoples have taken to writing down their stories and describing the meaning of their customs.QA 35
- 16. professional sectors have seen a growing sense of Amazonian identity; even for people who are the descendants of immigrants, the Amazon region has become a source of artistic, literary, musical and cultural inspiration. QA 35
- 17. 3 - Intercultural encounter - Our own cultural identity is strengthened and enriched as a result of dialogue with those unlike ourselves. Nor is our authentic identity
- 18. If we ourselves do not increase our sense of co-responsibility for the diversity that embellishes our humanity, we can hardly demand that the groups from the interior forest be uncritically open to “civilization”. QA 37
- 19. it is possible to develop “intercultural relations where diversity does not mean threat, and does not justify hierarchies of power of some over others, but dialogue between different cultural visions, of celebration, of interrelationship and of revival of hope. QA 38
- 20. 4 - Endangered cultures, peoples at risk “the family is and has always been the social institution that has most contributed to keeping our cultures alive”. QA 38
- 22. there is a need to promote for the original peoples “alternative forms of communication based on their own languages and cultures” and for “the indigenous subjects themselves [to] become present in already existing means of communication”.QA 39
- 23. LIST OF PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH Advent and Christmas – time of hope and peace Amoris Laetitia – ch 1 Amoris Laetitia – ch 2 Amoris Laetitia – ch 3 Amoris Laetitia – ch 4 Amoris Laetitia – ch 5 Amoris Laetitia – ch 6 Amoris Laetitia – ch 7 Amoris Laetitia – ch 8 Amoris Laetitia – ch 9 Amoris Laetitia – general introduction Carnival Christ is Alive Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – Church and Family today Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - God’s plan for the family Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – family as a Community Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – serving life and education Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – mission of the family in society Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - Family in the Church Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar Football in Spain Haurietis aquas – devotion to the Sacred Heart by Pius XII Holidays and Holy Days Holy Spirit Holy Week – drawings for children Holy Week – glmjpses of the last hours of JC Inauguration of President Donald Trump Juno explores Jupiter Laudato si 1 – care for the common home Laudato si 2 – Gospel of creation Laudato si 3 – Human roots of the ecological crisis Laudato si 4 – integral ecology Laudato si 5 – lines of approach and action Laudato si 6 – Education y Ecological Spirituality Love and Marriage 1- Love and Marriage 2 – growing up to sexual maturity Love and Marriage 3 – psychological differences and complimentarity Love and Marriage 4- causes of sexual attraction Love and Marriage 5- freedom and intimacy Love and Marriage 6 - human love Love and Marriage 7 - destiny of human love Love and Marriage 8- marriage between Christian believers Love and Marriage 9 – sacrament of marriage Lumen Fidei – ch 1 Lumen Fidei – ch 2 Lumen Fidei – ch 3 Lumen Fidei – ch 4 Medjugore Pilgrimage Misericordiae Vultus in English Mother Teresa of Calcuta – Saint Pope Franciss in Thailand Pope Francis in Japan Pope Francis in Sweden Pope Francis in America Pope Francis in the WYD in Poland 2016 Querida Amazonia Resurrection of Jesus Christ –according to the Gospels Russian Revolution and Communismo 3 civil war 1918.1921 Russian Revolution and Communism 1 Russian Revolution and Communismo 2 Saint Patrick and Ireland Sunday – day of the Lord Thanksgiving – History and Customs The Body, the cult – (Eucharist) Valentine Vocación Way of the Cross – drawings for children For commentaries – email – mflynn@legionaries.org Fb – Martin M Flynn
- 24. LISTA DE PRESENTACIONES EN ESPAÑOL Abuelos Adviento y Navidad, tiempo de esperanza Amor y Matrimonio Amor y Matrimonio 1 - 3 Amor y Matrimonio 4 - 6 Amor y Matrimonio 7 - 9 Amoris Laetitia – cap 1 Amoris Laetitia – cap 2 Amoris Laetitia – cap 3 Amoris Laetitia – cap 4 Amoris Laetitia – cap 5 Amoris Laetitia – cap 6 Amoris Laetitia – cap 7 Amoris Laetitia – cap 8 Amoris Laetitia – cap 9 Amoris Laetitia – introducción general Carnaval Cristo Vive Domingo – día del Señor El camino de la cruz de JC en dibujos para niños El Cuerpo, el culto – (eucaristía) Espíritu Santo Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – iglesia y familia hoy Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - el plan de Dios para la familia Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – familia como comunidad Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – servicio a la vida y educación Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – misión de la familia en la sociedad Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - participación de la familia en la iglesia Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar Fátima – Historia de las Apariciones de la Virgen Feria de Sevilla Haurietis aquas – el culto al Sagrado Corazón Hermandades y cofradías Hispanidad Laudato si 1 – cuidado del hogar común Laudato si 2 – evangelio de creación Laudato si 3 – La raíz de la crisis ecológica Laudato si 4 – ecología integral Laudato si 5 – líneas de acción Laudato si 6 – Educación y Espiritualidad Ecológica Lumen Fidei – cap 1 Lumen Fidei – cap 2 Lumen Fidei – cap 3 Lumen Fidei – cap 4 Madre Teresa de Calcuta – Santa María y la Biblia Medjugore peregrinación Misericordiae Vultus en Español Papa Francisco en Bulgaria Papa Francisco en Rumania Papa Francisco en Marruecos Papa Francisco en México Papa Francisco – mensaje para la JMJ2016 Papa Francisco – visita a Chile Papa Francisco – visita a Perú Papa Francisco en Colombia 1 + 2 Papa Francisco en Cuba Papa Francisco en Fátima Papa Francisco en la JMJ 2016 – Polonia Querida Amazonia Resurrección de Jesucristo – según los Evangelios Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 1 Revolución Rusa y comunismo 2 Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 3 Santiago Apóstol Semana santa – Vistas de las últimas horas de JC Vacaciones Cristianas Valentín Vocación Para comentarios – email – mflynn@lcegionaries.org fb – martin flynn roe