The Fundamentals of Idente Youth
Idente Youth is an international association founded by Fernando Rielo and formed by children, teenagers, and young adults who want to identify themselves with the greatest and most noble ideals and values of humanity (such as peace, unity, friendship, faith, openness, loyalty, sacrifice, love), 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
