{"id":94084,"date":"2023-06-08T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/a-project-created-by-a-group-of-legionaries-to-help-young-people-learn-to-pray-with-the-bible\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T10:41:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T14:41:30","slug":"a-project-created-by-a-group-of-legionaries-to-help-young-people-learn-to-pray-with-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/a-project-created-by-a-group-of-legionaries-to-help-young-people-learn-to-pray-with-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRC Bible\u201d\u2014 A Project Created by A Group of Legionaries to Help Young People Learn to Pray With the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"

What doubts do today\u2019s young people have about praying? Can you really listen to God through the Bible? These were the questions that a group of Legionary brothers in their theology studies in Rome tried to answer. Since launching six weeks ago, RC Bible \u201chas helped me be more attentive when reading or listening to Bible passages, because during this process I was able to realize how the Holy Spirit makes himself present in the different readings to bring me to understand many things in my life,\u201d says Alejandra V\u00e1squez from Valencia, Spain, one of the young people who participated in the course.
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\nIt all started with the desire of some Legionary brothers who did their apostolic internship in Spain: to teach others to pray using the Bible. One of them, Br. Daniel Fern\u00e1ndez, LC, indicated to these young people that he was certain that \u201cthe Word of God is a living Word that wants to respond to you here and now; it is not a dead word. It isn\u2019t a book about history or mathematics; it is a book that wants to answer many questions that young people have in their hearts these days.\u201d Brs Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez, Daniel Fern\u00e1ndez, Javier Villar, Christopher Daniels, and John Kenny as well as Fr. Rafael Vignaroli, LC, and Br. Jaime Plasencia, LC, created the plan for the program. It seeks to give young people a foundation so that they encounter the Lord through his Word, unlike other apostolates that offer daily Gospel reflections, but that are pre-written reflections that, in the end, do not always achieve true contact with the Word of God or, most importantly, respond in prayer to the question: \u201cWhat does God want to tell me through this Gospel?\u201d
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\nAn Entire Course on Prayer<\/strong>
\nThe project began Sunday, April 16, 2023, the Sunday of Divine Mercy, with a video call with 80 young men and women who wanted to participate in the project. Every day for six weeks, throughout the Easter season, they sent out a short two-to-three minute audio recording about the context of the Gospel reading of the day, in which they presented guidelines for orientating their prayer after having read the Gospel themselves. They also presented other quotes from Sacred Scripture each day, such as parallel passages to complement their prayer.
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\nAlso, Thursdays were \u201cfeedback Thursdays,\u201d that is, through WhatsApp, an audio recording, or in person, each participant was invited to tell their spiritual director this program of prayer was going for them: lights received, difficulties encountered, etc. Finally, they reconnected every Sunday to receive a 20-minute formation talk about topics that help them learn like \u201cChildren of the Father,\u201d \u201cExamen of prayer and examen of the day,\u201d \u201cTypes of prayer,\u201d or \u201cLife in the Spirit\u2026\u201d
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\n\u201cThe project didn\u2019t aim for them to stay dependent on daily reflections; that\u2019s why it had an end date,\u201d explains Br. Daniel. \u201cIt was a boost, and the idea is that now, these young people can start to pray by themselves, they can take the Gospel of the day and meditate on what God wants to tell them and do with them through the Word.\u201d Alejandra V\u00e1squez, from Regnum Christi in Valencia, Spain, tells us her experience of all this.<\/p>\n

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