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A reflection by Fr. Oscar Pezzarini, director of Cottolengo Don Orione in Claypole and Economist and General Commissioner of the Work of Don Orione

Father Oscar Pezzarini

"Assuming responsibilities and living values"

Father Oscar told us that each one needs to perform his everyday task with a vocation to serve others pursuing common welfare. He also advised that when confronted with the new year one should not limit oneself to expect something or to just give in. According to Father Oscar the begin of the new year allows us to "repent from our guilt and to correct it".

Buenos Aires, Sunday, January 5, 2003.- Father Oscar Pezzarini, in charge of the weekly comment in "La Manga", Fr. Julio Grassi's radio program (Radio Rivadavia -AM 630 kHz- Sundays from 2 to 5 a.m.) said that this new year we need to "assume our responsibilities and live according to the values of honesty, abnegation, and sacrifice".

In his first commentary of this year, Fr. Oscar Pezzarini, director of Little Cottolengo Don Orione in Claypole and recently appointed Economist and General Commissioner of the Work of Don Orione, held that "each one, as a profesional, a political leader, a businessman or a clergyman, has to set forth living his job or occupation as a vocation to serve others in the pursue of common welbeing. Common welbeing, this concept which is empty of content", he added. "We need to ask us what depends on each one of us."

"Both teachers and educators help others to grow. The Educational Work of Felices los Niños Foundation serves as an example. Its teachers start right now in January to prepare themselves for the beginning of the next school year."

"This is the task we all need to do, not just waiting, not just giving in. Not always believing that the fault is the other's. We have our own responsibilities and perhaps our own guilt so we must repent and correct it."

"We must modify our errors and overcome the little discrepancies among ourselves. This means to assume our own errors, if there may be some, and to be thus aware of our responsibility in our family or in our community."

"If we live this way the year will be different. Otherwise in twelve months the next December will arrive, and we will once again say we are glad the year is over and we expect the next one to be better, when actually improving a year depends on us", he closed.

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