{"id":34058,"date":"2020-10-27T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cgfmanet.org\/infosphere\/vi-vogliamo-felici\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T09:24:51","slug":"we-want-you-to-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cgfmanet.org\/en\/ifma-en\/we-want-you-to-be-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"We want you to be happy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Librino (Italy).<\/strong> On 21 October 2020, on the occasion of the visit of the Provincial, Sr. Maria Pisciotta, of Mother Maddalena Morano Sicilian Province,(ISI), the mural created by a group of pre-adolescents and adolescents from the oratory was inaugurated.<\/p>\n

\"Inaugurazione<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cProject Murals\u201d<\/strong>, was born in July as an activity proposed at the summer oratory to involve children in a path of reflection and internalization of phrases from Don Bosco and Mother Mazzarello, up to the graphic realization, to \u2018make the walls speak\u2019 of the oratory , transmitting a Salesian educational message to those who enter or pass in front of it.<\/p>\n

The Project was coordinated by Sr. Ermelinda Ardita and Sr. Giovanna Cozzo, FMA, who guided the young people in the various stages of implementation<\/strong>, and who illustrated it to the Provincial with their words during the inaugural moment:<\/p>\n

“When the Animator of the Community, Sr. Ausilia Mendola, suggested that we get involved using our talents and our time to create a mural in our Oratory, we were amazed, thinking that it was too big an undertaking and that there was no way we could do it. But we trusted and, guided by Sr. Ermelinda, we began to reflect on the meaning of murals and art in general. What is art? It is a form of communication! What a book says with words, art transmits with designs and colors. This illustrated book must speak for itself, it must tell itself independently, stimulating curiosity in the viewer, raising questions and answers in one’s life.\u201d (Aurora)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, this Oratory is an educational environment where we learn to live many important values. It was necessary to convey educational messages<\/strong><\/em> through the mural so that anyone who sees it, from children to adults, can grasp a message that helps them grow in life.\u201d (Gabriel)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe went in search of some phrases of Don Bosco and Mother Mazzarello. We\u00a0 read and commented on them to understand their full meaning. Finally, the choice fell on this: ‘There is only one desire, to see you happy in time and in eternity’. A phrase from Don Bosco which, in our opinion, expresses very well what the Sisters and the whole Educating Community transmit to us in the daily life of the Oratory. So we transformed it into: ‘We want you happy in time and in eternity’<\/strong>: this is what the presence of the Sisters in Librino and our being here testify to.” (Silvia)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cEntering this environment through the gate and reading this sentence one wonders: Who wants me happy? What does “in time and in eternity” mean?<\/strong> If you come from the sports field you are stimulated by this expression: “We want you”. The message is clear: Don Bosco, Mother Mazzarello, the sisters, educators, and animators, through constant and loving accompaniment along the stages of our growth, want us to be happy now and later, in eternity, that is, always. \u00a0It is an accompaniment in human and Christian life.\u201d(Samuel)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we internalized the message, we divided it into multiple narrative scenes like in the comics and we started drawing. We drew many sketches before making the drawings that would give life to the sentence and to what we had in our minds and hearts.\u201d (Raffaele)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHaving composed the draft and made some color tests on paper, we brought the project back to the wall and started painting\u201d. (Semira)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe present to you the various scenes\u201d<\/em>:<\/p>\n