Celebrating the Centenary of
Gianna Gobbi
with 100 Days of Joy!
Count Down - Day 29
Today, Sunday, November 17, 2019 day 29 in our countdown of 100 days leading to the celebration of Gianna Gobbi's Centenary. 

Each Sunday during this countdown, we are introducing the theme for the week. This week's theme is "Freedom, Independence and Discipline"

Today we share from Gianna Gobbi's book Listening to God with Children, page 94:
"[W]e are dealing with a freedom which is understood as liberation of the potentiality of the person and, therefore, as obedience to a vital impulse which is presupposed to be toward the positive. This important capacity for freedom requires respect, and, at the same time, it requires appropriate assistance, so that freedom can be a conquest and not merely a free gift. Moreover we could say that the real value of freedom lies in the fact that it is a conquest, a conquest involving response to and claiming of what is good and right.”

Gianna Gobbi
We are pleased to celebrate the Centenary of Gianna Gobbi's birth, a milestone in the history of
the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd by sharing this
 "Pearl of Joy" with you!
Read more about Gianna in this new Commemorative Journal
This special Commemorative Journal allows Gianna Gobbi’s voice and spirit to remind us of the beauty, value, and gift of Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and how we as adults must behold, must “see” the child before us, allowing for their contemplation of and enjoyment in the presence of God. 

several of the pearls in the pearl shell
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