BIJ DE ONTMOETING MET DE JONGEREN OP HET PLEIN TEGENOVER HET MARONITISCHE PATRIARCHAAT IN BKERKé
(Soort document: Paus Benedictus XVI - Toespraak)
Paus Benedictus XVI -
15 september 2012
You have a special place in my heart and in the whole Church, because the Church is always young! The Church trusts you. She counts on you! Be young in the Church! Be young with the Church! The Church needs your enthusiasm and your creativity! Youth is the time when we aspire to great ideals, when we study and train for our future work. All this is important and it takes time. Seek beauty and strive for goodness! Bear witness to the grandeur and the dignity of your body which “is for the Lord” (
1 Kor. 6, 13b). Be thoughtful, upright and pure of heart! In the words of Blessed John Paul II, I say to you: “Do not be afraid! Open the doors of your minds and hearts to Christ!” An encounter with Jesus “gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction”
Paus Benedictus XVI, Encycliek, God is Liefde, Deus Caritas Est (25 dec 2005), 1. In Christ you will find the strength and courage to advance along the paths of life, and to overcome difficulties and suffering. In him you will find the source of joy. Christ says to you: سَلامي أُعطيكُم – My peace I give to you! (Jn 14:27). This is the true revolution brought by Christ: that of love.