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
Yesterday I signed the Apostolic Exhortation
Paus Benedictus XVI - Postsynodale Apostolische Exhortatie
Ecclesia in Medio Oriente
De Kerk in het Midden-Oosten - Naar aanleiding van de Bisschoppensynode over het Midden-Oosten
(14 september 2012). This letter is also addressed to you, dear young people, as it is to the entire People of God. Read it carefully and meditate upon it so as to put it into practice. To help you, I remind you of the words of Saint Paul to the Corinthians: “You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written in your hearts, to be known and read by all men; and you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts” (
2 Kor. 3, 2-3). Dear friends, you too can be a living letter of Christ. This letter will not be written with pen and paper, but with the witness of your lives and your faith. In this way, with courage and enthusiasm, you will enable those around you to understand that God wants the happiness of all without distinction and that Christians are his servants and his faithful witnesses.