La comprensión del sacramento del bautismo en los jóvenes de 10º grado de la escuela normal superior maría reina en el municipio de Mitú - Vaupés

Abstract

Since its inception, the magisterium of the Church has had in mind the mission of evangelizing all peoples without distinction, announcing the Kingdom that is present in Christ, an expression of God close to his people. That is, the church proclaims the faith from its own experience that is conjugated between the believer and his community, following the example of the experiences of the disciples and the first communities in and from the universality that is concretized in baptism where dignity is acquired of children of God, disciples of Jesus and members of the Christian community. However, Colombia is a Puri-ethnic and multicultural Country, where the idiosyncrasy and identity of the peoples converge in a singularity of rites and beliefs in their very processes of initiation and insertion, which sometimes leads to the fact that from the sacramental plane of baptism they do not a proper understanding is reached. Which in the work developed in the María Reina Superior Normal School in the Municipality of Mitú, where the students, mostly indigenous from the different corners and ethnic groups of the Department of Vaupés, have a spiritual, cultural and traditional roots, which It causes that sometimes, despite the presence and accompaniment made for a long time by the church, there is no clarity and unity in the interpretation and appropriation of Christian religiosity. In this sense, this work aims to: describe the cultural understanding of the sacrament of Baptism in young people enrolled in the Tenth grade of the María Reina Superior Normal School in the Municipality of Mitú - Vaupés. For this purpose, the document was developed as follows: at first, what is related to the research problem, that is, the problem context, the justification, the objectives and the context of the tenth grade students; then, the presentation of the topic was addressed: the characterization of baptism from Sacred Scripture; Tradition and the Magisterium of the Church; tradition and culture; and the vision of the youth population regarding this sacrament of Christian initiation. Finally, a class proposal was made to the tenth grade youth in a didactic way about the importance of the sacrament of baptism based on four moments: recognition; deepening; the transference; and finally collaborative learning.