In his speech to the young people participating in the Student Leadership Summit promoted by the Colegio São Carlos de Milan, Francisco called on them to make the most of the opportunities that school provides them, as many young people in the world do not have the opportunity to study.
Mariangela Jajurappa – Vatican News
Pope Francis addressed a message to young people participating in the Student Leadership Summit promoted by the Colegio Sao Carlos School in Milan, Italy. The meeting began on Friday (10/13) and ends on Saturday the 14th.
“In this time of serious social and climate crises, you, together with your teachers and teachers, are thinking about how you can contribute to changing the world. This is very positive. In fact, it is important to have big dreams: God does too.” Therefore, it is important To find adults who do not erase your dreams, but rather help you interpret and achieve them. Always compare your dreams with God’s dreams,” Francisco writes to young people.
According to the Pope, if young people want to experience “change as heroes,” they must “discover the inexhaustible magic of the person of Jesus: he makes everything new. He reveals an authority different from that shown by the powerful of yesterday and today.” today.” .
According to the Supreme Pontiff, “His method of transforming situations does not burden them, but rather lifts them up, does not force them, but liberates them. Jesus transforms the person from within, including each one of you, so that you can express your best energies and talents. Follow Jesus with complete confidence, Thinking about your growth, not about how to rise above others, but about how to put yourself at the service of others. The greatest is the one who knows how to lean on those who have fallen, and take some of their burden. Burdens, with tenderness, which is true strength.
Therefore, to have an attitude of openness, as a “Catholic” “means to have an open and integrated vision of the human person, in all its dimensions, which the Bible reveals to us and which Jesus Christ fully fulfilled.”
The Pope calls on young people to “make the most of the opportunities that school provides them, because many young people in the world do not have the opportunity to study. Commit for them and for their rights.”
