As a birthday makes it a very special day, so the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy makes this year different from all others. The fact that we celebrate Memorial Day as a scout, or rather of thought (because thought is much more than just a memory), a few days before the Day proclaimed its nice to remember this birthday of our country, gives us the opportunity to work alongside the scouts to be our be our citizens and citizens of this country.
A first thought is to women and men of Italy who worked as an active citizen, spending in the most diverse spheres of civil society, doing their part because the variety of experiences, skills, backgrounds, cultures, dialects, traditions ... could recompose the harmony of a single nation.
And many of them have worn the Scout uniform! But we can not forget that in our time, as the dawn of our history, many pressures imposed on the future of Italy which, emphasizing particularism, localism, racism, selfishness of small or major, are likely to raise barriers rather than open the doors of the meeting, tolerance and harmonious coexistence of cultures and different religions. It seems that all these ways of thinking are unfortunately only a part of the degeneration that disfigure the image of "good citizen" so dear to our founder and to us. We wonder, now as at the time of the unification of Italy, in which models, teachers and, above all, witnesses can refer, in this time of too many "indecent" shows that fill the news and that scan the TV listings. The adult who receives this witness today, passed from hand to hand through generations of Italian citizens, is perhaps more difficult to live with a responsible and consistent leading role, gathering courage with the challenges of the contemporary world. And so, a social and economic crisis, will be joined by another that undermines the very essence of the person. Thought of the Day is time for us, especially this year, the opportunity to reaffirm that Scouting, especially the Catholic one, feels a strong duty to respond to the degradation of values \u200b\u200bthrough education, loss of stable reference models, culture of appearance and overwhelm the other at any cost, the commodification of women and then, ultimately, to the absence of a clear horizon of meaning, and in this we feel strengthened by the choice of the Italian Church to identify education the key word for the pastoral care of the next decade.
the face of bad examples that are before us, the style of the explorer, able to observe, infer, and act as the commitment of the promise and the positivity of the Scout Law, there seem to be to beat the high road, avoiding indulge in useless lamentations as rates. Each scout will certainly want to be a leader and think about the future like that of own country, speak correctly and, if necessary with determination, one's thoughts and possibly its disagreement with decisions contradictory, unjust and disrespectful and the environment. The AGESCI, this time aware of the urgency of education, youth and adults committed to a genuine relationship, pursuing genuine relationships real, serious and profound, that alongside young actors and not mere spectators, committed adults willing to witness active citizenship, responsible and dignified. The educational challenge of today can not to focus regardless of the culture of legality: the ethics of the limit associated with the true concept di libertà.
È importante educare alla comprensione che non tutto ciò che è possibile è anche lecito, ma anche all’esperienza umana della sconfitta, in una società rivolta esclusivamente al vincente, al migliore, al perfetto. Educare all’etica del limite significa proporre un’alternativa ad una cultura del “successo ad ogni costo”, che sfocia facilmente nel dileggio delle regole civili e sociali. E il senso della nostra Legge può e deve aiutarci in questa sfida: è bello giocare con delle regole, quando si gioca insieme; ci sono delle leggi da rispettare per stare bene insieme a vantaggio di tutti. Buona parte di quelli che hanno lottato e sono morti per l'unità d'Italia were young, sometimes very young!
What can we do today, we guys, our youth, our leaders, because Italy is more united, because we build a country with the objective of the Common Good? To do this we believe it is important not to lock ourselves in our homes, but to open ourselves to the reality that we have entered, knowledge and experiences of living with people normally considered "different" for skin color, origin, religion, and learn to know respect them, and commemorating those who have preceded us, from "Stray Eagles' Don Peppe Diana, to name just two examples.
The hope of Thinking Day 2011 then becomes, Once again, a commitment to "be", even before a "say" or "do", endeavoring to "leave the world a little 'better than we found it," knowing react to the pessimism and the desire to pull his oars.
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Maria Teresa Joseph Spagnoletti Finocchietti [the Chief Scout and Chief Guide]
Stroppiana Paola, Alberto Fantuzzoe Don Francesco Marconi [National Committee chairman and AGESCI Chaplain General]
Adapted from www.marcoabrate.blogspot. com 
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