My dear young people:
1. During my visit Apostolic this geographic area I am today with the young people of Costa Rica here, and through the media, also with other countries I will visit in the coming days.
both to you who are at this stage as the absent but emotionally attached to us, I express my great joy to be with you and give my regards warmest friend and brother.
I come to share with you this human and ecclesial fraternity experience, and say a word I'm sure will have a strong echo in your generous heart: Christ, the eternally young, needs you and calls you in the Church , "true youth of the world " (Message of Vatican II to young people, ad Iuvenes Nuntius , 6).
; the end of the Second Vatican Council, his last message was directed specifically to young people, you "those who are about to receive the torch from the hands of your elders and to live in the world at the time of the most gigantic transformations in its history" (ib . 1).
then said with great confidence the Council Fathers: "Especially for you young, just light the Church Council in a light, light which illuminates the future " (ib . 2).
Because this message is as impressive today, it seems appropriate here to entertain you on it, to examine how to better illuminate your path and help them respond to the serious commitment that you have as ferment and hope of the human community and the Church.
2. I often ask about how you live your life so worthwhile, how to behave in a way that your life is full and do not fall in a vacuum, how to do something to improve society in which you live, facing up of serious ills that are repugnant to your thirst for honesty, fraternity, justice, peace and solidarity. I know you want noble ideals, even if they cost , and you will not live a dull life, made of small or large your conscience betray young people and Christians. And I know that to do so are willing to adopt a positive attitude to your own existence and the society they are members.
not enough, indeed, to contemplate the evils that you discover your round, or regrettable passively. Nor is it sufficient to criticize. Not provide any solution or expired declared powerless against evil and be carried away by despair. No, not that the way of solution.
Christ calls you to commit yourselves for good, the destruction of selfishness and sin in all its forms. Want to build a society in which they cultivate moral values \u200b\u200bthat God wants to see into the heart and life of man. Christ calls you to be faithful children of God, well operators, justice, brotherhood, love, honesty and harmony. Christ encourages you to always carry your spirit and your actions the essence of the Gospel: love God and love of man (cf. Mt 22, 40).
For only in this way, with this understanding of the depth of the man in the light of God, you can work effectively so that "society that are going to build respect for the dignity , freedom, the right of the people, and those people are yours "(Message of Vatican II to young people, Nuntius Iuvenes ad 3). Yours and those who "do not ever forget, are children of God, and are also demanding the name of your brothers .
3. This path of commitment in favor of man is not easy. Elevating work and always see their dignity recognized and respected, is very demanding task. To persevere in it is necessary a deep motivation reasoning which is able to overcome fatigue and skepticism, doubt and even the smile of someone who sits at your convenience seen as naive or who is capable of altruism.
For you, young Christians, this motivation in the background, able to transform your actions, your faith in Christ . She teaches you that is worth striving to be better, it's worth working for a fairer society, that is worth defending the innocent, the oppressed, the poor, that is worth suffering to alleviate the suffering of others; worth dignifying increasingly brother man.
worth, because this man is not the poor soul who lives, suffers, enjoys, is exploited and ends his life with death, but an image of God, called eternal friendship with him: a being who loves God and wants to be loved.
Yes, he wants not only be respected, which is the first and basic step ", but is loved by his peers.
This is the highest goal to which our Christian faith calls us. This is the way to the heart of man and passing through the pleasure of God in him. That is why the Council was concerned that the company expand its treasure let old and ever new: faith (Message of Vatican II to youth, ad Iuvenes Nuntius , 4).
4. The Church hopes that you will know to be strong and brave, brilliant and persevering in that way. And with an eye toward good and encouraged by your faith, you will be able to resist the philosophy of selfishness, pleasure, hopelessness, from nothing, hatred, violence (ib .). You know the bitter fruits it produces. Many tears shed much blood because of violence, the fruit of hatred and selfishness!
The young man who lets himself be dominated by selfishness, impoverishes their horizons, lowering their moral energies, and forfeit his youth and prevents the proper growth of their personality. In contrast, genuine person, far from being closed in itself, is open to others, grows, matures and develops as it serves and comes generously.
selfishness appears behind the philosophy of pleasure. Many young, unfortunately, are washed away from hedonism, presented as a supreme value, it leads to sexual debauchery, alcoholism, drugs and other vices that destroy burning strength and weaken their ability to address the reforms that are indispensable in society.
Natural result of selfishness and pleasure absolutized is the despair that leads to the philosophy of nothingness. The young man believes in real life and brimming with hope. He is convinced that God calls on Christ to be fully up to the stature of the perfect man and the maturity of the fullness (cf. Ef 4, 13).
5. And what to tell you, dear young people, the horrors of hatred and violence? It is a sad reality that, at this time, much of Central America is reaping the bitter fruits of the seed sown by injustice, hatred and violence.
Given this painful situation of death and confrontation, the Pope feels the urgent need to repeat to you, young people, the word of Christ: "I give you a new commandment: that ye love one another "(Jn . 13, 34). And also the word solemnly given by my predecessor Paul VI in Bogota: "Violence is not Christian or evangelical" (Paul VI, Mass in the "Journey of Development" , Bogotá, August 23, 1968).
If you, dear young people, have the grave responsibility break the chain of hatred that produces hatred and violence of that breeds violence. You create a world better than your ancestors . If you do not, blood will run, and tomorrow, the tears would testify to the pain of your children. I invite you as a brother and friend, to fight with all the energy of your youth against hatred and violence until it is restored love and peace in your nations.
You are called to teach others a lesson Love, Christian love, which is both human and divine. You are called to replace hatred with the civilization of love.
This is done by the way you can splendid genuine friendship, which always leads to the high and noble friendship you learn of Christ, always be your model and great friend. And boldly rejecting those who resort to hate and its manifestations as instruments to forge a new society.
6. The message from the Council also invites you not to yield to atheism "Phenomenon of tiredness and old age" (Message of Vatican II to youth, ad Iuvenes Nuntius , 4). Before him, you young, vigorous, must affirm the faith "in what gives meaning to life, the certainty of the existence of a just and good God" (ib .).
You must express that faith in your life, enriching others with a living testimony, cheerful, confident and hopeful that he looks at you infect. Your Christian testimony, young and courageous, able to trample human respect has great evangelizing force.
This should be your attitude to life. If you are faithful to this program, you will feel the joy of those who fought and suffered for good, of those who give to others the reason for the hope of every man who is in the face of Christ in his youth who constantly renewed interior of whom face a world that looks, perhaps unwittingly, shouts a message of optimism: in our day, Jesus of Nazareth is still the source and inspiration of truth, dignity, justice, the love.
7. My dear friends: I know from my experience as a university professor, you enjoy the specific syntheses. It is very simple synthesis-program that I have said, is enclosed in a and No Yes :
not selfishness;
No to injustice;
No pleasure without moral rules;
not to despair;
not hatred and violence;
the roads not without God
not the irresponsibility and mediocrity.
Yes to God, Jesus Christ, the Church;
If faith and commitment that she holds;
Yes to respect dignity, liberty and the rights of individuals;
Yes to attempt to elevate man and take it to God
Yes to justice, love, peace,
If solidarity with everyone, especially those most in need;
Yes hope;
Yes your duty to build a better society.
8. Remember that to live this we must look to the past, overcoming it to the future.
Future Central America will be in your hands, it is already in hand. Strive to be worthy of such responsibility.
that Christ Jesus will inspire with his words and example. Welcome them with generosity and enthusiasm, and put them in practice. Addressing the board of St. James: "Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. If anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, that is similar to that contemplates her image in a mirror is covered, but leaving you forget how "( St . 1, 22-24).
God bless and my prayers will accompany you in this task. May Mary, Mother of Christ our Savior, be your partner, your sister, your friend, your confidant, your Mother, today and forever. So be it.
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