Seekers of Happiness was the theme of the 13th International Meeting of Catholic Romanian Youth, held from 22-26 July in the Greek-Catholic diocese of Cluj Napoca. The FSPs of Bucharest participated in the encounter with a book display of specially-chosen titles and also guided a workshop entitled Seekers of Happiness on the Social Networks. The session was designed to help the young people reflect on the quality of their presence on the social networks, highlighting that the secret of happiness in the digital environment is education and love. We need to become media literate, the sisters said, so as to cultivate a critical approach to what is read, viewed, listened to, published and distributed.
The social media can be profitably used to forge relationships and enter into more profound communion with others. But to do this, it is important to become a neighbor to those we meet via these networks, taking time to listen to and dialogue with the persons we encounter so as to cultivate relationships marked by genuine friendship and love.
The invitation of Pope Francis to communicate with others so as to ease their pain and increase their joy was a powerful stimulus to the young people to use the social networks to witness to Christian happiness, communicating the love of God to all those they might meet on the “digital highways.”
