Here is a short text that Father Stan Rougier published about Fondacio!
Baden Powell founded a movement that spread over a century to every country in the world. He wanted to help young people find an ideal and to commit themselves effectively to the service of others. His intuitions all came from the Bible.
A new movement was born 50 years ago, " Fondacio ". I witnessed its birth. I accompanied its first steps in Assisi. Under its leadership, I led WEs of reflection, camps, retreats, conferences... I want to believe that this movement has a future. The message is vital:
In the Bible, to a people of slaves, God says, " You are princes." He entrusts them with a charter:
"You will begin with respect, You will extend your hand to the person who suffers. What you do for the unfortunate, you do it to Me."
Fondacio seems to me to be able to be a breeding ground for vocations for the growth of a more united and more beautiful world.
The interest of my presence, at 90 years old, evokes for me the story of the old man Simeon. My happiness would be to contribute more to the development of this style of adventure. Perhaps I have time left to live. I wish to participate in the orientation of works of this magnitude which seem to me full of promise: the transmission of the most vital values for youth.
In my younger years, the books "Étoile au grand large" and "Citadelle" were essential sources of spiritual awakening for me.
The transformation of the world through the transformation of oneself is indeed the ideal that Fondacio has given himself. The Pope, with his encyclical "Laudato Si" proposes some very important acts. "Seeker of meaning", "author of change"... this is indeed the ideal that inhabits me. More and more. In the Bible there are long genealogies that are very tedious to read but they tell us the importance of transmission.
Good can only advance on this planet through human links. Inviting young people to take their place in repairing this world has been my concern throughout my life, since I was 20 years old.
I owe this to two priests who were able to bring the Word of God within reach of my conscience. The role of the years to come, as far as I am concerned, is to want to be faithful to what they have done for me.
Working for others gives us a euphoria that leads us to a messianic vibration. Jesus Christ is resurrected through our lives."
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