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1 1 | exhortation that I address to you young people at the beginning
2 1 | of every human being. You young people are the ones who
3 1 | sense continually become young again. So your youth is
4 1 | the future belongs to you young people, just as it once
5 1 | Church expresses for you young people, through my lips,
6 2 | Christ speaks to young people ~2. These words,
7 2 | s conversation with the young man, recorded by the Evangelists.(5)
8 2 | does not end here. For the young man declares: "Teacher,
9 2 | Jesus of Nazareth meets young people-particularly evocative
10 2 | speaks in this way to a young person, a boy or a girl;
11 2 | are really important for young people.~Permit me therefore
12 2 | essential importance for a young person. ~
13 3 | of the Gospel text. The young man goes away sorrowful, "
14 3 | possessions of which the young man was owner or heir. Perhaps
15 3 | special treasure of man, of a young man or woman, and most often
16 3 | most often it is lived by young people as a specific treasure.
17 3 | considerable social importance. The young man in the Gospel was precisely
18 3 | external riches, what the young man possessed ("possessions").
19 3 | What he was, as precisely a young man-the interior treasure
20 3 | existence. And how many such young people there are among the
21 3 | among the multitudes of young people all over the world!
22 4 | 4. Christ replies to the young man in the Gospel. He says: "
23 4 | have already heard what the young man had asked: "Good Teacher,
24 4 | How I pray that you, my young friends, will hear Christ'
25 4 | the conversation with the young man. Such is Christ in the
26 4 | these questions which you young people put to him through
27 5 | comes from the lips of the young man in the Gospel in the
28 5 | differently from how that young man put it: "What must I
29 5 | courage to ask it, like the young man in the Gospel. Christianity
30 5 | So ask Christ, like the young man in the Gospel: "What
31 6 | path to be taken.(29) The young man who speaks to Christ
32 6 | develops with each one of you young people the same question
33 6 | his conversation with the young man, lists the commandments: "
34 6 | or utilitarianism.~Dear young friends! The response which
35 7 | s conversation with the young man, we now enter another
36 7 | new and decisive one. The young man has received the essential
37 7 | his conversation with the young man in the Gospel.~We know
38 7 | as in the case of that young man in the Gospel, or perhaps
39 7 | may experience what the young man in the Gospel experienced: "
40 8 | the testimony which the young man had given of his life
41 8 | Matthew's account, it was the young man himself who opened this
42 8 | and more precisely of a young person who is forming the
43 8 | call to holiness.~When the young man asks about the "more": "
44 8 | follow me."(53)~Yes, my dear young friends! The Christian is
45 8 | which Christ said to the young man. And I do this in the
46 8 | the Church to some of his young questioners in every generation.
47 8 | s conversation with the young man it acquires a particular
48 8 | to say this to all of you young people, in this important
49 9 | which is attractive to a young heart. In this process the "
50 9 | s conversation with the young man, that relationship of
51 9 | an individual as a task. Young people, entering into themselves
52 9 | these circumstances, the young person, boy or girl, constructs
53 9 | entrust to all of you, the young people to whom this Letter
54 9 | develops and grows, while your young personality acquires ever
55 9 | Christ had addressed to the young person his evangelical "
56 9 | addressed by Christ to the young man in the Gospel.~You must
57 9 | reference to youth and to young people. I trust that this
58 9 | specially appointed to work with young people.~The Church herself-as
59 10| examine, together with you young people to whom I am addressing
60 10| the soul and body of every young woman and young man, and
61 10| of every young woman and young man, and manifests itself
62 10| also on the horizon of a young heart a new experience occurs:
63 10| itself heard in the voice of young consciences, if they have
64 10| precisely this love that you young people need if your married
65 10| the love that is born in young hearts. Many times in my
66 10| more closely this love of young people. Thanks to this experience
67 10| mark and reflection. ~Dear young friends! Do not allow this
68 11| particular nation.~Writing to you young people, I try to have before
69 11| of life which during your young years each one of you works
70 12| write these words to you young people, I am therefore thinking
71 12| the world to which your young lives are linked for a number
72 12| instructors, the guides of your young minds and characters. How
73 12| thinking of those groups of young people, your peers, who-especially
74 12| especially important for the young. Upon it also depends to
75 12| and in a special way for a young person. This is the question
76 12| causing difficulties to young people all over the world.
77 12| and especially for the young, who so often are the victims
78 13| above still more concern young people themselves. For while
79 13| unless each one of you young people undertakes the work
80 13| an essential programme. Young people, one might say, have
81 13| must be used for freedom: young people also have a spontaneous "
82 13| is not always so easy for young people). And it is precisely
83 13| and self-isolation? Dear young people, you are under threat
84 13| material goods. How many young people, succumbing to the
85 13| was precisely his love for young people that caused him to
86 13| s conversation with the young man in the Gospel, which
87 14| grace.~For all of you, dear young friends, I wish just such "
88 14| And so my hope for you young people is that your "growth
89 14| contact with others. Being young should enable you to "increase
90 14| great importance of his young years, when she increased
91 14| of the Church, is to show young people the path of that "
92 15| The Church looks to the young; or rather, the Church in
93 15| way sees herself in the young -in you as a group and in
94 15| this: "I am writing to you, young people, because you have
95 15| Father... I write to you, young people, because you are
96 15| s conversation with the young man in the Gospel, and they
97 15| continues to see herself in the young. And how does the Church
98 15| justice among people.~You young people are the hope of the
99 15| same time the path of the young" (Peace and youth go forward
100 15| World. In some cases your young years are being lived in
101 15| different communities of young people feel, think and react
102 15| scale.~In this situation you young people can rightly ask the
103 15| there is also the fact of young men who have on their consciences
104 15| again you ask: Why?~You young people can ask all these
105 15| day in the Gospel. That young man asked: "What must I
106 15| which it is your turn to be young: "What must we do to ensure
107 15| answers as he answered the young people of the first generation
108 15| Apostle: "I am writing to you, young people, because you have
109 15| Father... I write to you, young people, because you are
110 15| s conversation with the young man.~As we approach the
111 15| answer.~In you, in your young hearts, there is a strong
112 15| discrimination. Yes! You young people are bearers of the
113 15| Apostle writes that you young people are strong in the
114 15| it. ~The Apostle says: "Young people, you are strong":
115 16| Final message ~16. So, my young friends, I hand you this
116 16| conversation of Christ with the young man-and flows from the testimony
117 16| Vatican Council, which called young people "the hope of the
118 16| and which addressed to the young people of that time-as also
119 16| together with you for all the young people of the world, for
120 16| the great community of the young people of the universal
121 16| who intercedes for the young people, for the newly-married
122 16| you, to each one of you young people: "Do whatever Christ
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