The Holy Father stepped outside Rome and went visiting to the island of Sardinia in Italy.  As is whas now become a papal practice, he met with young people!  Here’s some pull quotes:

And what can we say of the fact that in modern consumer society earnings and success have become the new idols before which so many prostrate themselves? The consequence of this is that people are led to give value only to those who … ‘have found fortune’ or who are ‘notorious,’ and not to those who must struggle with life every day.”       There is a risk of becoming superficial, of taking dangerous shortcuts in search of success, thus giving life up to experiences that bring immediate satisfaction but that are in themselves precarious and deceptive. There is a growing tendency to individualism, and when we concentrate only on ourselves we inevitably become fragile; we lose the patience to listen which is an indispensable part of understanding others and working together.

Jesus said: ‘The truth will make you free’, yet modern nihilism preaches the opposite: that freedom will make you true. There are, indeed, those who maintain that there is no truth, thus opening the way to rendering the concepts of good and evil meaningless, even making them interchangeable.

Faith, in this sense, before being a religious belief, is a way of experiencing reality, a way of thinking, an interior sensibility which enriches human beings . .  Being with Jesus, frequenting Him as a friend in the Gospel and in the Sacraments, you may learn … that which society is often no longer capable of giving you: a religious sense.

You will no longer be afraid to lose your freedom, because you will experience it fully by giving it for love. You will no longer be attached to material goods, because in yourselves you will feel the joy of sharing them. You will no longer be sad at the sadness of the world, but will experience pain for evil and joy for good, especially for mercy and forgiveness. … If you really discover God in the face of Christ, you will no longer think of the Church as an institution external to yourselves, but as your spiritual family”.

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