This coming Palm Sunday, every diocese in the world will celebrate World Youth Day. This year's slogan is \u201cYoung man, I say to you, arise!\u201d This initiative promoted by John Paul II will celebrate its 35 years on April 5.<\/p>\n
Pope Francis wrote a message for this edition. He encourages youth to get up and have compassion. He says if they learn to weep with those who are weeping, then they will find true happiness.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> He calls young people to see as their own, the wounds of their peers, who lack the same opportunities, or suffer violence and persecution.<\/p>\n He also challenges them to make an ambitious cultural change: to avoid being isolated by electronic devices that keep them \u201cconstantly glued to the screen.\u201d He asks them instead to \u201cembrace a reality that is so much more than virtual.\u201d He explains \u201cthis does not involve rejecting technology, but rather using it as a means and not as an end.\u201d<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS The pope encourages them to use life's failures as opportunities to start again. He also invites them to live new lives, to be passionate and to do great things. He definitely wants them to make noise!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Daniel D\u00edaz Vizzi The pope invites young people to get up to go beyond virtual reality and to have compassion for those lacking opportunities or suffering violence and persecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/W4ObHh6dFbc","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bgmg2020eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bgmg2020int.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cI ask each one of you to ask, Can I weep? Can I weep when I see a child who is hungry, on drugs and on the street, homeless, abandoned, mistreated or exploited as a slave by society? Or is my weeping the self-centered whining of those who weep because they want to have something else?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cDear young people, we didn't come into this world to 'vegetate,' to take it easy, to make our lives a comfortable sofa to fall asleep on. No, we came for another reason: to leave a mark. It is very sad to pass through life without leaving a mark.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTranslation: Claudia Torres<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"