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Buenos Aires, Sunday, February 15, 2004

Father Oscar Pezzarini

The Value of Decency

Decency is the value which reminds us of the importance of living and behaving wherever with decorum. It really is a pity that many times it is set off that a certain person is “decent” when this should be the feature of all human beings as a part of their dignity, this is how God created man, decency is part of the way we are. We believers who realize the dignity with which God has created us are those who must experience values, decency in this case, as one of the supreme values God has instilled in us, and we need to show by our own conduct that living according to it is not impossible... if we all lived like that, finding decent people woudn't seem so “odd” nor so “extraordinary”.

Decency is the value which reminds us of the importance of living and behaving wherever with decorum.

It is one of the values which tells the mosto about a person, it makes us aware of our human dignity.

When a person stops living according to this value, most certainly the personality of this person will suffer a transformation and will start to treason very profound issues of his life and of the people around him.

It really is a pity that many times it is set off that a certain person is “decent” when this should be the feature of all human beings as a part of their dignity, this is how God created man, decency is part of the way we are.

The first thing that happens by being decent is that we recpect ourselves, our own person, our body, our things, showing by our attitudes we experience this value.

Decency makes us exert ourselves in respecting others, recognizing the dignity all beings pocess as they are God's creation, and much more so the human being created to His image and likeness.

In the current world we live in many times someone who acts “decently” is looked upon as if he were shy or faint-hearted, without realizing that whoever struggles to live in decency is struggling to forge, strengthen and making noble his character and is showing through his life the Creator given dignity at the very beginning.

We realize there is a strong lack of the virtue of decency when people who show they live according to this value are made stand out, and this is very sad, not because of those who live in decency but because if those who do are highlighted it is just because it is not very common to find people who personify decency.

We believers who realize the dignity with which God has created us are those who must experience values, decency in this case, as one of the supreme values God has instilled in us, and we need to show by our own conduct that living according to it is not impossible... if we all lived like that, finding decent people woudn't seem so “odd” nor so “extraordinary”.

Father Oscar Pezzarini
General Commissioner of the Work of Don Orione in Argentina

Father Oscar Pezzarini makes us think with his reflections in "De Buena Fe" the radio program of the Felices los Niños Foundation on Radio Belgrano, AM 950 kHz, Saturdays from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m..
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