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00:14Hello, how are you all? We are Elisa and Felipe, and we are here to present a very interesting, difficult, but also
00:22a very beautiful theme which is that of openness to life.
00:25We ask the Holy Spirit at this moment to open our minds and hearts and prepare us to listen to His Spirit.
00:31message.
00:32What does openness to life mean? The first meaning of openness to life could be said to be letting go
00:42that God may work in our lives in matters related to procreation.
00:47We often ask the Lord for His opinion on many aspects of our lives, but we leave Him out of the equation.
00:54that relates to privacy.
00:56Because it's a delicate matter, someone wanting to intrude on our privacy is already something
01:03which we can reject outright.
01:05But God always illuminates this part of our lives, and the Church helps us with this.
01:12What is sex to the Lord?
01:15If we only understand sex as the pursuit of pleasure, we will not understand the Lord's message.
01:22The Lord's message is that sex has two functions, the unitive and the procreative.
01:29This does not mean, I would add, that pleasure is bad; on the contrary, pleasure can always be present.
01:36in the unitive function as well as in the procreative one.
01:38That's right, they've already talked to you more about this in the unitive function, in topic 6, we
01:47We are going to focus on the procreative issue.
01:50And here is a passage from the Bible that I would like to share with you, which helps us understand this message of
01:57Mister.
01:59It is Genesis 1:28
02:01And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply.”
02:07What is the Lord trying to tell us with this command?
02:10It may sound very nice, but it's a little difficult to understand.
02:16About 50 years ago, a pope named Paul VI wrote this encyclical.
02:22An encyclical, it may seem very short, but it is full of riches.
02:26And we would like to share with you a small excerpt from this encyclical that clarifies this point a little.
02:33Indeed, the conjugal act, by its very nature, deeply unites the spouses,
02:41makes them fit for the generation of new life, according to the laws inscribed in the very being of man and
02:48of the woman.
02:49This helps us understand how the unitive and procreative questions are intimately related.
02:56We cannot separate them.
02:59The term responsible parenthood was coined about 50 or 60 years ago.
03:06We are children of this concept that was created in that era.
03:12and that, according to the world, he presented a pessimistic view of responsible parenthood.
03:20Why? Because it led couples of that era to believe that small families live better.
03:29This phrase was coined.
03:30So famous.
03:32So famous, right?
03:32Maybe we don't hear it as much anymore,
03:34But our parents were...
03:41Affected, aren't they? By this phrase.
03:43Yes, yes, yes, yes. And then families started getting smaller and smaller.
03:50Sixty years ago, families had around eight children per family.
03:56Now, we are probably children of families of two or three members.
04:02And they did such a good job that the holidays, right?
04:06The vacation was planned to be taken with two children.
04:09The houses were for families with two children.
04:13In other words, it was a complete job.
04:15Yes, it was a thorough and very subtle job.
04:17The campaigns of that era also included soap operas, didn't they?
04:22Soap operas, the family figure, were like that, families of one, of two, maximum of three.
04:30In commercials, we found these everywhere.
04:34And it was formed from a study, that is, they based this idea on a study
04:41They were talking to him about the population explosion, weren't they?
04:44And they terrorized society almost with this idea that human beings
04:48He was going to cover the planet with people.
04:54And which, let's say, has been dismantled.
04:58And we had an experience once when we went to a museum
05:04where they had a rather illustrative exhibit, right?
05:13In which it said, if we put all of humanity,
05:17to the seven billion inhabitants that currently exist on the planet,
05:21If we put them all together, standing side by side,
05:25How much surface area would they occupy?
05:27I was surprised, I was shocked by the surface area that all of humanity would occupy.
05:32It's a thousand, a little over a thousand square kilometers.
05:37A thousand kilometers might sound like a lot,
05:39But it is only one-seventh of the area occupied by the urban sprawl of Monterrey.
05:44Or half of the island of Tenerife, right?
05:48All of humanity together.
05:49And then there's this idea of overpopulation
05:53and that we are not destroying the planet,
05:57Although there are certainly examples, right?
05:59of how human beings can be, under this pessimistic and selfish vision,
06:04It can be a predator of the planet,
06:06But it wasn't really based on this idea of the population explosion.
06:12Responsible parenthood has a different meaning for Christians.
06:19For Christians, responsible parenthood is an optimistic vision, a vision of hope.
06:24because through Jesus who rescued us,
06:29We can transform the world,
06:31to transform the world and be responsible Christians.
06:37Now...
06:38Excuse me, now we've reached the point of not just saying,
06:41Small families live better,
06:43Now we have reached the point of saying,
06:46If you want to do the planet a favor, stop having children.
06:50That's the best way to manage your carbon footprint, they tell us, right?
06:55Yes, as if we were a plague on the planet.
06:59We've probably run into each other on social media by now,
07:02in the media,
07:03A view that it would be better if human beings didn't exist, right?
07:07And this is very relevant today.
07:08Previously, campaigns focused on things like "small families live better."
07:11But now it's...
07:12They've improved it.
07:13They have improved the campaign, yes.
07:17And they've been successful, haven't they?
07:18They have succeeded because our society,
07:20our Christian society,
07:22The Christian world is in decline.
07:25It's in decline.
07:26For those who work in demographic studies,
07:31They have discovered that for a culture to survive,
07:38There needs to be a birth rate of 2.1 children per couple.
07:45What's happening?
07:46In France it is 1.8,
07:49in England, 1.6,
07:53in Italy, 1.2,
07:55in Spain, 1.1.
07:57From 1.8 and below,
08:00The decline is irreversible, right?
08:04So if you see a Spaniard around,
08:06Take a picture with him,
08:07because they are in danger of extinction.
08:11And in Mexico,
08:13In Mexico we are at 2.2.
08:15We are on the verge of beginning a decline.
08:19of population growth.
08:22And of course, those places will be filled by someone else.
08:24No?
08:25Because of these migration phenomena,
08:28And perhaps we see it far away here,
08:30But let's say in Europe,
08:33the places that Christians cease to occupy,
08:36They are occupied by other cultures,
08:38other religions,
08:40and in not too long, Europe,
08:42instead of being Christian,
08:43She's going to be Muslim, right?
08:45So,
08:46What should motivate us?
08:49So that we grow as a Christian community,
08:52No?
08:52That we do not become a minority.
08:54Here I would also like to share an example.
08:56that you had told me,
08:57do you remember?
08:58From the Nobel Prize,
09:00I think it was about ecology.
09:01From a few years ago, right?
09:03Yeah.
09:04This is like, let's say,
09:06to counter this idea
09:08that human beings are a plague,
09:09and that it pollutes,
09:11and that it destroys the planet,
09:12Well, we can be different.
09:15There's a gentleman you mentioned,
09:17the Nobel Prize in Ecology,
09:19a man in Oaxaca,
09:20in their community,
09:22in the last 30 years,
09:24instead of having a completely desertified area,
09:29finished,
09:30It transformed it and now it's a forest.
09:32No?
09:32In other words, they can look it up on the internet.
09:33His name is Jesús León Santos.
09:35He was recently awarded this prize,
09:37because he did a wonderful thing.
09:39This makes us believe we can be different.
09:42that we can build a better world.
09:45There are other effects as well.
09:47of this misuse
09:49of fertility.
09:50One of these effects
09:51It's in the economy.
09:54In these times,
09:57couples are having
09:58than going out to work,
09:59both,
10:00because we believe we need
10:02X number of luxuries, right?
10:04Going on vacation twice a year,
10:06to have two, three cars,
10:08give to the child
10:08every gadget known and yet to be invented.
10:10And we forget
10:12to give to our children
10:13the most important
10:13and what they need most,
10:15which is love
10:16and presence.
10:21Motherhood
10:22It has also been seen
10:23as something antagonistic
10:25to professional development
10:26of the woman.
10:27The woman who decides
10:28stay at home
10:29to raise
10:30to their children
10:31is seen as
10:32that is subject.
10:34I once read somewhere
10:35a phrase that I really liked
10:37which said
10:37if a woman decides
10:39support your company
10:40or submit to a company
10:43giving it
10:44a schedule
10:45eight in the morning
10:46at six in the afternoon
10:47or as a trusted employee
10:48stay until eight o'clock at night
10:49during off-peak hours
10:50or whatever,
10:51It is seen as progress.
10:53But if a woman
10:54decide
10:55support
10:56to their children
10:56and her husband,
10:58that
10:58is seen
10:59rather
11:02as a setback
11:03or as submission
11:04as if there were
11:05until
11:05How do you say the word?
11:08As if she is under its control
11:09as if she is oppressed
11:12That's the word.
11:15And what are they?
11:17What are the consequences?
11:19Already
11:20John Paul II
11:21he told us
11:22says Familiaris Consortio
11:24the future of humanity
11:26is forged
11:27in the family.
11:29Many women
11:31despise
11:31either
11:32or they take
11:34at least
11:34the paper
11:35of the woman
11:36at home
11:37as a mother
11:38as a wife
11:38since it is the paper
11:40most important
11:41women
11:41as mothers
11:43we have the capacity
11:44to change
11:44the future
11:45of our society
11:47because we are
11:48forming
11:48to people
11:49that they are going to live
11:51the next few years.
11:53What are
11:54the consequences
11:55of everything
11:55This problem?
11:57TRUE?
11:58The first
11:59is
11:59divorces.
12:01six out
12:02ten couples
12:03They get divorced.
12:05Why?
12:06Because well
12:06The woman is looking
12:07your professional development
12:08The man is looking
12:09your professional development
12:10and they end up far apart.
12:12TRUE?
12:12This is no longer the case
12:13There is a way
12:14of
12:16moving forward together
12:17because
12:17your interests
12:18They go against
12:19of mine
12:19or we can't
12:20tie.
12:21Then
12:22have
12:22children without love
12:23that are being
12:25educated
12:26care
12:27in daycare centers
12:28maybe
12:29during schedules
12:29extended
12:30The parents arrive
12:31for them
12:31at six
12:33seven in the evening
12:34to put them to bed
12:34or to bathe them
12:35do homework
12:36that with them
12:37whatever they lack
12:38And that's all.
12:39Who gives them love?
12:41Well, hopefully
12:42at daycare
12:43treat them well
12:44TRUE?
12:45Who is
12:45pupil?
12:46The parents
12:47No
12:48TRUE?
12:48Because that's what it's for.
12:49It takes time
12:50and presence
12:52and with this
12:53It also comes
12:54consents
12:55harmful
12:56the parents
12:57they feel
12:58up to a point
12:59with guilt
13:00because they haven't been
13:01present with their children
13:02and then it comes
13:02Well, I'll buy it.
13:04I'll give it to him
13:04I let him do this
13:06the other thing
13:06I don't discipline him
13:10We also have
13:10the lack of surveillance
13:12with the children
13:13and teenagers
13:13We all know
13:15what can happen
13:15with a child
13:16that has available
13:17a cell phone
13:18a tablet
13:18without supervision
13:20We know the damage
13:21What can be done?
13:21that child
13:23and we also have
13:24frustration
13:25from grandparents
13:26that many times
13:27They have to take care
13:28to the grandchildren
13:28because there is no
13:29who will take care of them
13:30or whoever educates them
13:31And that's no longer their responsibility.
13:32them
13:33TRUE?
13:33They are already
13:33in another stage
13:34of life
13:35in which they would have
13:36enjoy
13:36of the grandchildren
13:37not educating them
13:39In other words, they already educated
13:40to the parents
13:41of the grandchildren
13:41oh well
13:42there is not
13:43another option
13:45if we
13:46we were
13:47following the vision
13:48that God had
13:49for the family
13:50surely
13:51we would have families
13:52integrated
13:53and we wouldn't be
13:53facing each other
13:55to all these problems
13:57and this might seem
13:59that the training
14:01professional
14:02Women's
14:02would be left aside
14:05surely
14:06You already have
14:06a training
14:07professional
14:07both
14:08and it doesn't mean
14:10that the woman
14:11have to leave
14:12his vocation
14:14but
14:16can integrate it
14:17in the project
14:18familiar
14:18as Elisa said
14:20It's not that they are
14:21two projects
14:22independent
14:23That's how it is.
14:23right now
14:23I dedicate myself
14:25I have
14:26my profession
14:28I don't know what
14:29and I leave
14:29and I do my chores
14:31I achieve success
14:33and the woman
14:34for their part
14:34But when we do
14:36when we get together
14:38in this project
14:38familiar
14:40when there is a marriage
14:41the project
14:42It's already a set
14:43and then
14:44This is where
14:45we must understand
14:46as with greater
14:49fullness
14:49that God proposes to us
14:50in the bosom
14:51of the families
14:52can develop
14:53fully
14:54the projects
14:55professionals
14:56of the two
14:57There are examples
14:58in our case
15:00particular
15:00We have an example
15:02that she has been able to
15:04develop
15:05his professional life
15:06in the bosom
15:07familiar
15:09if I have been able to
15:10continue developing
15:11my professional life
15:13without neglecting
15:14my role as a mom
15:15and my role as wife
15:17and well
15:18Here we're going to do
15:18a cut
15:19And we will continue
15:20in a moment
15:21with the following video
15:22what is
15:23God in the intimate life
15:25and procreative
15:26of the couple