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Thank you to all you youth who believe and search for authentic and concrete responses to the deeply rooted desires of your hearts.
Thank you to all who do not surrender to the illusions, the deceptions, the banalities of this stale world which is submerged in power struggles, ambitions and  fruitlessness only to arrive at limited and fleeing goals.
Your hidden and underlying defiance should solicit us educators, parents and all else to get in tune with your ways, to walk a path marked by a coherence of thinking, speaking and living ethical and religious values in which the voice of our conscience reminds us every time we make a free and intelligent choice.
Together with you thousands and thousands of youth who are ready to raise their heads and fix their eyes to that intense and brilliant blue that invites us to believe that there is hope which is constant, strong and alive within us.
The personal walls, the wrong doings inflicted upon you, the frustration, the humiliations of your childhood, your physical complexes, the indifference that surrounds you, the silence of those who should talk to you, are all things that cannot and should not hurt you.
Look often at yourself and see your reflection in the crystal that has no shadows which is the Word of God. This Word made flesh who is called Jesus of Nazareth is the authentic, the unique, the efficient, and the real response to your desires, to your dreams, to a concrete life lived by acts of love, charity and self giving.
This man of Nazareth is the only model who teaches us and fills us with a joy of forgiveness, given and renewed daily, for whom ever, in any manner, has hurt our memory, disturbed our childhood, or used our adolescence, causing us to live our maturity wrongly.
The evil received should not and cannot bring us to the point of revenge, violence, or anger because within ourselves we have truly encountered and chosen Jesus. A new sap flows within us, human and Divine, which invites us to forgive, to have mercy and peace.
Youth, remember that you can be the pioneers of a new society that want to live the true goodness, the true richness and the true solidarity with everyone.
Look for spaces and places where you can speak with open and loyal hearts to the one God that in order to encounter you, to look at you in your eyes, and to embrace you, became man, became in your likeness, to share and to be part of your history of joy and sorrow, so that you could live happily.
We look for the light, and the light is Jesus. How many people have their heart and their mind at war: the peace is Jesus; he is the Prince of Peace! As a community we want to tell you: do not look elsewhere, do not be disillusioned any longer, do not wait for the answer from a world of darkness to satisfy you, it is impossible. Who speaks to you now is a poor, weak woman that the Lord has called to reveal the deepest wounds of the youth. The person that looks elsewhere for his answer finds only that his life and heart have been contaminated by sin, in their search they find that there is no life outside of Christ.
Today these youth are an indication for you, a traffic sign: whoever of you does not have peace does not have joy, is confused, is unable to forgive . . . take the road to Jesus of Nazareth. He is not an idea, a religion, a theology to study and then teach to the others but He is a live person that we must encounter. Our faith is your life that meets Jesus, day after day, and is transformed!
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