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Editorial > Editorial Archive  Buenos Aires, Sunday, February 11, 2007
Happiness is built up day-by-dayAs Jesus states the Beatitudes He has a large crowd facing Him, probably made up of rich and poor, healthy and sick people, some of them simple and others overflowing with problems of every kind, in short, it was a group with all their worries and troubles. The same thing happens these days. Both in the times of Jesus and today, they had the same desire: “They wished to be happy”, and surely each and everyone put all necessary means to achieve this aspiration. But... Is it possible to be happy?, Really truly happy? Well, Jesus answers this question with the “Beatitudes”: “Blessed be the poor, those who weap, those who hunger for bread and justice...” Jesus teaches us that true happiness does not lie in a ready “palace” which someone gives us as a present, but that happiness is built up by us day-by-day by means of our “self-fulfillment”, by the search for a life according to deep and permanent values, not those which just “satisfy” for a while or which don't aid in getting hold of those things which really fulfill, such as family, affection, personal capabilities, the feeling of “having reached fulfillment” through achieving goals “which don't fall down in the first blow of wind” by means of one's own struggle and efforts.The text of the Gospel in which Jesus talks about the Beatitudes makes me share something about what causes Man to search all his life long, which is Happiness. As Jesus states the Beatitudes (Mt, 5, 3-10, Lk, 6, 17-26) He has a large crowd facing Him, probably made up of rich and poor, healthy and sick people, some of them simple and others overflowing with problems of every kind, in short, it was a group with all their worries and troubles. The same thing happens these days. Both in the times of Jesus and today, they had the same desire: “They wished to be happy”, and surely each and everyone put all necessary means to achieve this aspiration. But... Is it possible to be happy?, Really truly happy? Well, Jesus answers this question with the “Beatitudes”: “Blessed be the poor, those who weap, those who hunger for bread and justice...”. The Human Being searches by all means for happiness. Some means, I would say the easiest ones, promise happiness but in the long term they are a cheat: money for money itself, “success”, the momentary satisfaction of any instinct or need... There has been much progress in science, too: many dieseases have been blocked, Man has gone to the Moon, many conveniences and much progress have been achieved. Man made progress in many directions, but we see that he has not advanced in the achievement of happiness, or even more so, there seems to be a backward movement. In the common mentality which surrounds us, the “wordly” mentality, the poor cannot achieve happiness because they are poor, and rich people will be happy just because they are rich, but actually things are not like that. Not all people who laugh are happy. Those who are “praised” by the media, by “public opinion” seem to be truly happy until we find out they are not. One cannot achieve happiness by walking a way of “weariness” and “dispair”. Jesus teaches us that true happiness does not lie in a ready “palace” which someone gives us as a present, but that happiness is built up by us day-by-day by means of our “self-fulfillment”, by the search for a life according to deep and permanent values, not those which just “satisfy” for a while or which don't aid in getting hold of those things which really fulfill, such as family, affection, personal capabilities, the feeling of “having reached fulfillment” through achieving goals “which don't fall down in the first blow of wind” by means of one's own struggle and efforts. Today if we read the Beatitudes in the context in which we live they may even seem to be “off-beat”, but they just are reasons which make us realize that true happiness does not always lie in what we see and what is shown to us as something “magic”, but in the effort of bulding up happiness day after day.
Father Oscar Pezzarini together with Fr. Leonardo Abregú makes us reflect on Saturdays from 8 to 12 AM (GMT-03:00)with "VENTANA A LA VIDA", the Don Orione radio program he conducts on FM PROVIDENCIA, 90.3 MHz together with some residents of the Claypole Cottolengo (Raúl Romero, María Laura Andrada, Alberto Zoroch, Américo Torres), with the production of Roberto Beluzzo and Ignacio Cavalli as technical operator. You can also listen to FM PROVIDENCIA by clicking here.
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