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The Fundamentals of
Idente Youth
Idente Youth is an
international association formed by children, teenagers,
and young adults who want to
identify themselves with the greatest and most noble
ideals and values of humanity, fostering mutual respect,
independently of creed, nationality, culture or any
other difference we might have. In this manner, the Idente
Youth dedicates itself to live and develop common
aspirations that dignify and fulfill the human person
Its purpose is to
help restore and transform nature and society - beginning
with oneself - through the promotion, development, and
manifestation of the interior richness that defines the
human being. In the living out of this richness are
founded the highest values that have as their model the
life and testimony of Christ. Every human being, of
whatever creed and condition, can accept as the
hypothesis the possibility that in Him is contained the
unity, direction, and meaning of life and history. For
this reason, an Idente youth believes that Christ
incarnates, through the generosity of love, all human
virtues and ideals.
Idente Youth,
according to its founder Fernando Rielo, is not
associated with any ideology, understood as an
attitude of an individual, group, or society that
reduces, excludes, or fanaticizes the human person. For
this reason, its members foster positive values in the
face of reductionism; they are open in the face of
exclusion, beliefs, and mentalities; they dialogue and
live together, in the face of fanaticism, with all human
being.
The motto of the Idente
Youth is “God, Nature, and Society,” three indispensable
realities in which the young person, guided by his
experience and inquiry, discovers the highest personal
and social goals.
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God, the supreme reality,
freely manifests himself in the created human being as
the experience of love open to the infinite; as thirst
of transcendence to the absolute; as aspiration to more
and never to less; as search for authentic happiness,
peace, and freedom; as desire for truth, goodness, and
beauty. This deep human experience, that is synthesized
in generosity of love, could not be had if God were not
constitutively present in the human spirit infusing in
it love, happiness, peace, freedom, truth, goodness, and
beauty.
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Nature, as a created reality,
refers to the cosmos and life whose human spirit,
psychology, and body are part of. The person opens
himself through his body and senses to the cosmos; with
his psychology and faculties to the diverse forms of
life; with his spirit and gifts to other persons, having
as its foundation the divine personal reality that gives
unity, direction, and meaning to the three levels of the
manifestation of the human being: bodily, psychological,
and spiritual. The person has the gift of authority and
dominion – with God – over nature. This con-dominion
should be exercised, in the face of egoism, through the
power of love; in this way, human being can redeem,
respect, and transform nature in all its fields –
cosmos, body, and life – through the means of artistic,
cultural, religious, and scientific creation.
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Society, the result of
constant activity of human beings, is the entirety of
relations and conditions that should foster the
fulfillment and living in common of all dimensions:
personal, familial, historic, cultural, artistic,
technical, scientific, religious, psychological, and
political. A society that is not at the service of the
spiritual, psychological, and physical well-being of the
human being would degrade itself to structures of
egoism, injustice, poverty, and violence. A society that
systematically negates God, negates the fundamental
right of the human person: the ultimate reason of his
spiritual, psychological, and physical well-being. A
society that mistreats and does not take care of nature
turns the human being into a slave developing in him the
attitude of aggression and destruction.
The Rule of Honor of
the Idente Youth is Ad Deum Propter Humanitatem,
to God by Means of Humanity. The young person does
not proclaim an abstract God but a God loved, thought
of, and desired not only for oneself but for others. The
humanism that it proclaims is the consideration of the
human person as a “mystical deity” in the image and
likeness of the divine deity; in this sense, far from
Hobbesian motto homo homini lupus (man is a wolf
to man), young people are invited to follow the motto
of Fernando Rielo: homo homini deitas (man ought
to be deity for man). Christ himself reveals this
reality in his Gospel confirmed by Scripture: “you are
gods” (Jn 10:34). This power or deitatic gift that the
human being possesses in virtue of the divine
constitutive presence of the Absolute in his spirit is
what can lead him to attain the highest summits of the
perfection of love.
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