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Sparking the Joy of Truth: Global Compact on Education

Service is a pillar of the culture of encounter…In serving others, we experience that there is more joy in giving than in receiving…I encourage you to work together to promote, through a Global Compact on Education, those forward looking initiatives that can give direction to history and change it for the better. I join you in appealing to authoritative public figures in our world who are concerned for the future of our young people, and I trust that they will respond to my invitation. I also call upon you, dear young people, to take part in the meeting and to sense your real responsibility for the building of a better world.

Message of Pope Francis

Education in Francis of Assisi was not expounding disputed questions of the Scholastic University  Masters; instead it was arousing the truth dwelling in every human heart by entering into the inner world…towards all reality, awesome in depth and scope…Mary of Nazareth is generally seen as an object of devotion and as an intercessor in times of need…She educates humanity by the “Ecce” and “Fiat” which alone may lead the world to God, the Eternal Truth…Pope Francis is not a theoretician of truth. Education for him is not a means of keeping humanity in the dark about human predicaments…Laudato Si is an undaunted effort made by the Pope to know the truth, to do the truth and to speak the truth.

Foreword: Gerald Lobo, OFM

About the Author

Arokiam John, OFM, has a Licentiate in Spiritual Theology with specialization in Franciscan Spirituality and a Master‘s degree in Formation – both from the Pontifical Antonianum University (PUA), Rome. He is currently doing doctoral studies in Mariology at Marianum, the Pontifical Theological Faculty in Rome. He is a member of editorial board of the Franciscan Journal – TAU, India. Since January 2018, he has been a founding member of the Asia Oceania Marian Academy (AOMA), which is approved by the Pontifical International Marian Academy (PAMI) ad experimentum, and since May 2018, a Corresponding member of PAMI. Besides several articles, he has authored the e-booklet and printed booklet: The concept of the “Vanishing Soul” in Francis of Assisi’s time and in the context of the Church today, GRIN Verlag, München, 2017. His most recent e-book and printed book are titled: From Francis of Assisi to Pope Francis: Franciscan Spirituality Today, Media House, Delhi