{"id":341520,"date":"2012-11-16T14:46:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T13:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/humour-to-spread-the-gospel\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:08:00","slug":"humour-to-spread-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/humour-to-spread-the-gospel\/","title":{"rendered":"Humour to spread the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Cesare\u2019s dream has always been to give God to others as the ideal of life<\/strong>. When he realized that schools were a privileged place for doing this, he thought he would add his specialism to the curriculum: humour. He first tried his method in Cagliari<\/a><\/strong>, Sardinia, in a primary school in a run-down area where, out of a class of 25 children, 12 fathers were in prison. He said, \u2018With the head teacher\u2019s agreement I visited classes and offered to teach them a method: humour applied to school subjects, building dialogue, maintaining discipline, bodily care, social behaviour, world awareness, coping with difficulty, appreciating beauty and building peace.\u2019 After that Cesare visited a large number of schools, offering his innovative teaching to many regions of Italy.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Following that he carried on his mission when he went to live in the focolare<\/strong><\/a> in Albania<\/a> <\/strong>where in the space of ten years he met and inspired with his message about 25,000 people, in courses of catechists, groups of young people, professional schools, kindergartens and parents\u2019 groups. His brilliance and the effectiveness of his applied humour were such that he even ran a course on street evangelization for the Sisters of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.<\/p>\n

Cesare has a profound knowledge of the Bible, and he even offers a Master\u2019s course in the Song of Songs<\/strong> which has been a great success among both seminarians and young married couples. Some of the feedback: \u2018Behind your apparent improvisation there is tremendous research, tremendous work, tremendous passion, tremendous attention for each person,\u2019 \u2018You have a deep love for the Bible, (you quote it from memory) every artistic expression of yours is drawn from a relationship with the Word.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Besides working with schools and running training courses, Cesare has created a theatrical show where his \u2018applied humour for extreme evangelization\u2019 <\/strong>aims at honouring inner beauty and the priceless value of each person. In the show he observes life with care and sympathy, picking up on educational points so as to learn how to face things, whether happy or sad, in a balanced way and with Gospel wisdom. Cesare likes to call himself an \u2018Actor-Soul\u2019 who, using the instruments of art, humour and culture, as well as a wide range of deeply human life-experiences, produces a two-hour show characterized by fun and contemplation.<\/p>\n

Email:\u00a0gattocex@yahoo.it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The experience of Cesare Cesarini, a focolarino who spreads the Gospel by the new way of \u2018extreme evangelization\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}