Games, lightness and good humor to accompany the summer
This year Believe It offers readers the “enig-music week”: the game can also accompany the life of faith.
Dear readers friendssummer has now arrived and, in the hot hours at the sea, in the coolness of the mountain or even in the penumbra of the house, we all look for a little lightness, of leisure and some pastime that keeps us a little busy and, at the same time, it has fun.
Raise your hand who has never done the puzzle week! Cruciverba, quiz, apparently the same drawings of which to guess the differences, rebus …
Starting from the next issue, we propose – instead of the usual zooms of deepening – of summer gamesbut in the key to Believe: with questions concerning the Bible, the history of the Church and Christianity, cartoons, surprise designs and more.
By playing you can also learn: Through the curiosity aroused by the games (not for nothing the quizzes depopulated on TV) we can discover new things or details of known things that we had not thought about.
Speaking of the Bible, which in Italy – as is known – is not very read personally, outside the liturgy, the questions also become a small challenge: maybe you remember an episode, of a character but not the details.
In other countries, such as the Philippines, the biblical quizzes – perhaps with races between different teams – enjoy great popularity even among young people and have followed with enthusiasm.
Who would be able to say to Bruciapelo how many books of the Bible are? And, wanting to be thinner, how many are for Jews, how many for Catholics and how many for Protestants?
Through the notions we are passionate about a matter and then, perhaps, it is desire to read and deepen more personally.
Perhaps we are a bit too accustomed to associating a certain “seriousness” with religious things. Which is right on the one hand, because faith commits life. But it is not said that we cannot look at life even with a smile inspired by the faith.
How do you Don Giobathe priest famous for his cartoons and which will be one of the signatures of our “enig-music week”: often he stages God, Jesus, the apostles, the angels, with their ironic comments on human events. A scratch and a smile at the same timewho amuses and makes us think.
Widening the horizon a little, characters like Roberto Benigni, Giovanni Scifoni, Paolo Ruffini And other figures of the show know how to combine lightness and depth. And if we want to go back: San Filippo Neri (who was a great educator!) And San Tommaso Moro.
Perhaps we underestimate this potential of good mood in life. According to a saying of a sixteenth -century poet and Latinist: Castigat laughing Morescorrect the costumes laughing.
It referred to the power of the comedy and satirethrough irony and ridiculous, to contribute to the “costume reform”, in short, to change. And we wanted a pope like Francis To remind us of the value of humor as “Touch of grace” (Gaudete et exsulati).
Dear friendsthen we are waiting for you starting next week, with the weekly appointment of our games … “Enig-scale”for a few hours of relaxation and lightness on Believe.
Happy summer!
