Pope Benedict Speaks to Young People

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Pope Benedict Speaksto Young People
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• Jesus assures us that God alone is good. To be
  open to goodness means to receive God.

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• Jesus assures us that God alone is good. To be
  open to goodness means to receive God.
• In this way, he invites us to see God in all
  things and in everything that happens.

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• Stretching out in front of you, my dear young
  friends, is a life that all of us hope will be
  long yet it is only one life, it is unique do
  not let it pass in vain do not squander it.

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• Stretching out in front of you, my dear young
  friends, is a life that all of us hope will be
  long yet it is only one life, it is unique do
  not let it pass in vain do not squander it.
• Live it with enthusiasm and with joy, but most of
  all, with a sense of responsibility.

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• You are the youth of the Church. I send you out,
  therefore, on the great mission of evangelizing
  young men and women who have gone astray in this
  world like sheep without a shepherd.

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• Be apostles of youth.
• Invite them to walk with you, to have the same
  experience of faith, hope, and love
• To encounter Jesus so that they may feel truly
  loved, accepted, able to realize their full
  potential.

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• The Church needs you, as young people
• to manifest to the world the face of Jesus
  Christ, visible in the Christian community.

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• The Church needs you, as young people
• to manifest to the world the face of Jesus
  Christ, visible in the Christian community.
• Without this young face, the Church would appear
  disfigured.

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• Never forget that the Church, in fact humanity
  itself, all the people around you now and those
  who await you in the future, expect much from you
  young people,

Message to Young People On the Occasion of World
Youth Day 2008
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• Never forget that the Church, in fact humanity
  itself, all the people around you now and those
  who await you in the future, expect much from you
  young people,
• Because you have within you the supreme gift of
  the Father, the Spirit of Jesus.

Message to Young People On the Occasion of World
Youth Day 2008
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• . . . the Spirit of the Lord always remembers
  every individual, and wishes,
• particularly through you young people, to stir up
  the wind and fire of a new Pentecost in the world.

Message to Young People On the Occasion of World
Youth Day 2008
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• How can we allow ourselves to be renewed by the
  Holy Spirit and to grow in our spiritual lives?
• The answer, as you know, is this we can do so by
  means of the Sacraments

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Youth Day 2008
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• Confirmation gives us special strength to witness
  to and glorify God with our whole lives.

Message to Young People On the Occasion of World
Youth Day 2008
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• This difficulty that adults undoubtedly find in
  approaching the sphere of youth in a
  comprehensible and convincing way

Message to Young People On the Occasion of World
Youth Day 2008
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• This difficulty that adults undoubtedly find in
  approaching the sphere of youth in a
  comprehensible and convincing way
• Could be a sign with which the Spirit is urging
  you young people to take this task upon
  yourselves.

Message to Young People On the Occasion of World
Youth Day 2008