The Youth

Greetings! For this year, this is my first blog. What prompt me to write is the experience I have today with my students. What happen this morning is filled with joy and feeling of gratitude. I and my 1st year St. Monica class and school administrator celebrated the Eucharistic celebration with Fr. Manny and Fr. Freddie. The homilist, Fr. Manny, elaborated that the “The youth is the hope of the nation and the hope of the church”; no doubt he is referring to my 1st year St. Monica class. Are they really, are the youth really the hope of the nation? Who are the youth today, to whom do we entrust the future of the nation and the future of the church? Are they the right investments for the future? Would the future be productive if we entrust it to them? The way I look at it, the way asses it, I am confuse, (I hope this is the right term for what I feel); I am insecure and afraid. Afraid not because I did not see and did not recognize the potentials the youth possesses but afraid because I cannot fully comprehend whether I did my part as a teacher in the formation of this youth. I cannot completely understand whether the society trained the youth to become its pride or condition them to be dependent and selfish, and insensitive. But one thing assures me, “The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom should I fear.” I would like to close this reflection quoting St. Francis of Assisi, “Lord make me an instrument of your peace!”