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1 1 | wishes for International Youth Year~Dear Friends,~1. "Always
2 1 | Organization International Youth Year, and this is of great
3 1 | importance to the period of youth as a key stage in the life
4 1 | the ones who embody this youth: you are the youth of the
5 1 | this youth: you are the youth of the nations and societies,
6 1 | nations and societies, the youth of every family and of all
7 1 | humanity; you are also the youth of the Church. We are all
8 1 | become young again. So your youth is not just your own property,
9 1 | in this Year dedicated to Youth, is this: that you should "
10 2 | I have observed from my youth". Then, writes the Evangelist, "
11 2 | above all, the truth about youth. They are really important
12 3 | Youth is a special treasure ~3.
13 3 | question of the fact that youth is in itself (independently
14 3 | reasons to not experience youth as a treasure. We shall
15 3 | reasons-for thinking of youth as a special treasure that
16 3 | maturity. For the period of youth is the time of a particularly
17 3 | that the treasure which is youth reveals itself in precisely
18 3 | sense: the treasure which is youth itself.~But we must ask
19 3 | question: does this treasure of youth necessarily alienate man
20 3 | value and full meaning?~The youth of each one of you, dear
21 3 | life. But in the time of youth they are particularly urgent,
22 3 | So can we say that their youth too is a interior treasure?
23 4 | the singular treasure of youth. It comes from the very
24 4 | out. Still more so, when youth is tested by personal suffering,
25 4 | which is rooted in your youth. Your youth opens different
26 4 | rooted in your youth. Your youth opens different prospects
27 5 | the questionings of our youth, we cannot put the question
28 5 | is an opposition between youth and death. Death seems far
29 5 | Death seems far distant from youth. And it is. But since youth
30 5 | youth. And it is. But since youth means the plan for the whole
31 5 | meaning and value during youth too it is essential to ask
32 6 | I have observed from my youth".(30)~We have to presuppose
33 6 | supreme importance for your youth and for that plan of life
34 6 | reality: each of us from our youth experiences the voice of
35 6 | fundamental question of your youth, one that concerns the whole
36 6 | must be formed precisely in youth. Its value is the one most
37 7 | I have observed from my youth". How ardently I hope that
38 7 | it is my hope that your youth will provide you with a
39 7 | attain in these years of your youth that mature clearsightedness
40 7 | this direction that the youth which is the "personal"
41 7 | is that the paths of your youth may meet in Christ, that
42 7 | important questions for you youth, for the plan of the whole
43 8 | I have observed from my youth".~At the same time, this "
44 8 | individuals who often from early youth leave everything in order
45 8 | begin to construct in our youth. The dimension of gift also
46 8 | usually makes itself heard in youth; sometimes it is even heard
47 8 | addresses herself to you, to youth. And you too: pray! And
48 9 | up in the period of your youth. But "vocation" means something
49 9 | basing our reflections about youth on Christ's conversation
50 9 | child of God. Hence during youth a person puts the question, "
51 9 | essential dynamism of your youth. You must examine this plan-independently
52 9 | and specific reference to youth and to young people. I trust
53 9 | Sacraments enable us from our youth to open our human "I" to
54 10| sense is at the heart of the youth of all of you. This is one
55 10| I" of each one of you. Youth is the period when this
56 10| that plan of life which youth spontaneously creates and
57 10| important phase of your youth; I ask you rather to commit
58 10| along the paths of your youth. This can be called a great
59 11| plan of life, drawn up in youth, comes into contact with "
60 11| nations of our world. Your youth, and the plan of life which
61 11| modern, also guide your youth and foster the development
62 12| wealth of discoveries which youth brings with it. Referring
63 12| Gospel, we can say that youth is the time for discerning
64 12| characterizes the period of youth is, above all, a preparation
65 12| the intellect seeks, from youth onwards, to know reality
66 13| environment above all includes youth. But, I would say that the
67 13| a new way of looking at youth. Here we are no longer speaking
68 13| already in the period of youth, if through work, education,
69 13| this sense, we can say that youth is "the sculptress that
70 13| life", and the form that youth gives to the concrete humanity
71 13| you during the period of youth. These too can leave their
72 13| who try to destroy your youth by holding out various temptations
73 13| perceive what importance the youth of each one of you has in
74 14| Youth as "growth" ~14. Allow me
75 14| favour with God and man".(76)~Youth, then, is "growth". In the
76 14| growth". One can say that youth is youth precisely through
77 14| One can say that youth is youth precisely through that growth.
78 14| that growth. In this way youth acquires its own unrepeatable
79 14| experience of adults whose youth is already behind them and
80 14| overall pattern of life.~Youth should be a process of "
81 14| world in which we live.~Youth should be "growth". For
82 14| immense importance. In one's youth this relationship to the
83 14| growth" that characterize youth.~I likewise hope that this "
84 14| their richness and variety! Youth seems particularly sensitive
85 14| through this contact. For youth is the time for new contacts,
86 14| that this is happening in youth circles and groups, in movements
87 14| evangelical definition of youth. ~
88 15| of the young" (Peace and youth go forward together). This
89 16| Letter in International Youth Year, as we approach the
90 16| is described as the real youth of the world, as the one
91 16| strength and the charm of youth, that is to say, the ability
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