{"id":2064,"date":"2010-11-05T05:05:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T12:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2010-11-03T22:58:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T05:58:48","slug":"pope-benedict-explains-what-it-means-to-be-a-catholic-teacher-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/pope-benedict-explains-what-it-means-to-be-a-catholic-teacher-today","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict Explains What It Means to Be a Catholic Teacher Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, October 30, 2010, a teacher asked Pope Benedict, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/visnews-en.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/catholic-action-learn-art-of-true-love.html\">What does it mean to be a teacher today?<\/a>&#8221; Here is the Holy Father&#8217;s response:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Being an educator means having joy in one&#8217;s heart and communicating it to everyone so as to make life good and <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2066\" title=\"Pope Benedict\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Papa_Benedetto-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Benedict\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Papa_Benedetto-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Papa_Benedetto.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>beautiful; it means providing reasons and goals for life&#8217;s journey, presenting the beauty of the person of Jesus and making people love Him, His lifestyle, His freedom. &#8230; Above all it means holding up the goal of &#8230; that &#8216;extra&#8217; that comes to us from God. This requires personal knowledge of Jesus, a personal, daily and loving contact with Him in prayer, meditation on the Word of God, faithfulness to the Sacraments, the Eucharist, Confession; it means communicating the joy of being part of the Church, of having friends with whom to share, not only the difficulties but also the beauties and surprises of a life of faith.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You will be good educators if you are able to involve everyone in the good of the young. You cannot be self-sufficient but must make the vital importance of educating the young generations felt at all levels. Without the presence of the family, for example, you risk building on sand; without a collaboration with schools it is not possible to create a profound knowledge of the faith; without the involvement of the those who work in the sector of leisure and communication your patient efforts risk being unproductive and ineffective in daily life.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since the Church year is winding down, it might be a good time to ask ourselves, How is our&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8230;personal knowledge of Jesus in daily loving contact with Him in prayer?<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;meditation on the Word of God?<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;faithfulness, to the Sacraments, the Eucharist, Confession?<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;joy of being part of the Church?<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;network of friends to share the difficulties, beauties and surprises of a life of faith?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am extremely grateful for the network of friends I am gaining via this web site&#8211;you are part of the &#8220;beauties and surprises&#8221; that are part of my life of faith.<\/p>\n<p>As Advent approaches, maybe we could choose one of the above areas to work on during the coming liturgical year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, October 30, 2010, a teacher asked Pope Benedict, &#8220;What does it mean to be a teacher today?&#8221; Here is the Holy Father&#8217;s response: &#8220;Being an educator means having joy in one&#8217;s heart and communicating it to everyone so as to make life good and beautiful; it means providing reasons and goals for life&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/pope-benedict-explains-what-it-means-to-be-a-catholic-teacher-today\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pope Benedict Explains What It Means to Be a Catholic Teacher Today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-pope-benedict"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prZ8V-xi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1694,"url":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/pope-benedict-speaks-to-catholic-school-educators-in-england","url_meta":{"origin":2064,"position":0},"title":"Pope Benedict Speaks to Catholic School Educators in England","author":"Deacon Nick","date":"September 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"In another address today, Pope Benedict gave these beautiful words of tribute and encouragement to Catholic educators in the UK: Your Excellency the Secretary of State for Education, Bishop Stack, Dr Naylor, Reverend Fathers, Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I am pleased to have this opportunity to pay tribute to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/category\/news"},"img":{"alt_text":"Pope Benedict","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/popebenedict2-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3023,"url":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/pope-to-us-bishops-catholic-schools-essential-for-new-evangelization","url_meta":{"origin":2064,"position":1},"title":"Pope to US Bishops: Catholic Schools Essential for New Evangelization","author":"Deacon Nick","date":"May 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Earlier today, Pope Benedict spoke to some visiting US Bishops about the importance of Catholic education. 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