Why do divisions, wars and death occur?
\nFanaticism and divisions among young people? Why is there that desire
\nto destroy? In the first page of the bible, after
\nall those wonderful things that God had done, a brother kills
\nanother brother. The spirit of evil takes us to destruction. And the
\nspirit takes us to a lack of unity. It takes us to tribalism
\ncorruption and drugs. It takes us to destruction out of fanaticism.
\nHow do we make it such that fanatical idealism doesn\u00e2??t rob us of a
\nbrother or sister. There is a word that might seem uncomfortable to
\nthe ear but i don\u00e2??t want to avoid it.<\/p>\n
A man or a woman loses their humanity
\nwhen they forget how to pray. Because they feel powerful. Because
\nthey don\u00e2??t feel the need to ask the Lord for help, in the face of
\nso many tragedies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Life is full of difficulties. Are there
\ndifferent ways of looking at difficulties? Does it stop you, or do
\nyou regard them as as real opportunity? To all of you is open the
\nchoice. For me, is this a path of destruction or an opportunity to
\novercome this difficulty for me, my family, this country? Young people: we don\u00e2??t live in
\nheaven, we live on earth. And earth is full of difficulties and
\ninvitations that will lead you astray to evil. But there is something
\nall of you have. The capacity to choose. Which path do you want to
\nchoose? Which of these two do I want?<\/p>\n
There are some other difficulties you
\nmention. And before that a question. Do you want to overcome
\nchallenges or be overcome by them? Are you like the sportsman who come
\nhere. Or those who sold the tickets to others and
\nput the money in their pockets. You have to choose.<\/p>\n
Tribalism. It can destroy. It can mean
\nhaving your hands hidden behind your backs. And have a stone in each
\nhand to throw to others. Tribalism can only be overcome with your
\near, your heart, and your hand.<\/p>\n
Ask yourselves: What is your culture?
\nWhy are you like this? Why do your cousins have these customs? Do
\nthey feel inferior or superior? Once we\u00e2??ve heard the response in our
\nears than it passes to our hearts and then I extend my hand. If you
\ndon\u00e2??t dialogue with each other then you\u00e2??re going to have division
\nlike a worm that grows in society<\/p>\n
Yesterday was pronounced as a day of
\nprayer and reconciliation. I want to invite you all today, to the
\nyoung, to invite Lineth and Manuel to come up now, and that we hold
\neach other\u00e2??s hands, let\u00e2??s hold hands together. Let\u00e2??s stand up
\nas a sign against tribalism. We are all a nation, that\u00e2??s how our
\nhearts must be.<\/p>\n
Tribalism isn\u00e2??t just raising our
\nhands today, it\u00e2??s an expression of our desire, our hearts, and this
\ntribalism is a work we must carry out every day against this
\ntendency. You have to listen to others, it\u00e2??s a work of opening your
\nheart.<\/p>\n
On the question of corruption, I ask
\nmyself, can we justify corruption just for the mere fact that
\neveryone is corrupt? How can we be christians and overcome this evil
\nof corruption? In my country (Argentina) a young 20 year old dedicated himself to
\npolitics. He studied with great vigor he went here and there and he
\nobtained a job. And one day he had to decide: about which things he
\nhad to buy. And he asked for three quotes. He studied these three
\nquotes and chose the cheapest, the easiest, and he took it to his
\nboss so his boss could sign off on it and he said: 'Why do you choose
\nthis one?' 'Because you have to choose what is easiest for
\nthe finances of a country.' 'No, you have to choose
\nthat which gives more money in your pocket'. 'But I came to carry out
\npolitics for the good of the nation!'. And the
\nboss replied: 'I do politics to rob'. One example...
\nAnd it\u00e2??s not just in
\npolitics, in all areas of life, also in the Vatican. These are cases
\nof corruption. Corruption is something that eats
\ninside, like sugar. Sweet, we like it, it\u00e2??s easy. And then we end
\nup in a bad way. So much sugar that we end up being diabetic or our
\ncountry ends up being diabetic. Each time when we accept a bribe and
\nwe put it in our pockets, we destroy our hearts. we destroy our
\npersonalities, and we destroy our country. Please, don\u00e2??t develop
\nthat taste for that sugar which is called corruption. You might say
\n\u00e2??but Holy Father, I see many who are corrupt. I see so many people
\nwho are sold. Just for a little bit of money. Without worrying about
\nthe livelihood of others.\u00e2??<\/p>\n
As in everything you have to make a
\nstart. If you don\u00e2??t want corruption in lives, hearts and country,
\nstart now, yourselves. Because if you don\u00e2??t start than the person
\nthat\u00e2??s beside you won\u00e2??t start.<\/p>\n
Corruption moreover takes away our joy,
\nour peace. Corrupt people don\u00e2??t live in peace. What I\u00e2??m about to
\ntell you really happened. In my city, my home town, a man died and we
\nall knew that he was corrupt. I asked a few days after, \u00e2??how did
\nthe funeral go\u00e2??? And a lady with a great sense of humor replied:
\n\u00e2??they couldn\u00e2??t close the coffin properly because they wanted to
\nput inside the coffin all the money he had robbed.\u00e2??<\/p>\n
What you rob through corruption will
\nstay here. But also, what will remain is that the hearts of many men
\nand women are wounded by these examples of corruption. What will
\nremain behind was all the lack of good that could have been done. It
\nwill remain in the children who suffer. Young people: corruption is not a path
\nto life, it\u00e2??s a path to death.<\/p>\n
There was one question, how to use
\nmeans of communication, to spread the message of Christ, and to
\npromote good initiatives so that you can make a difference. The first
\nmeans of communicating is the words, the smiles, the gestures. The
\nfirst gesture is being close to others. The first gesture to trying
\nlook for friendship with others. If you speak well among yourselves then
\nyou can accept each other as brothers and sisters, even if you\u00e2??re
\nfrom different tribes. If you\u00e2??re closest to the poor to those who
\nare abandoned to...those who are completely rejected, those gestures
\nof communication are much more contagious than any channel on TV.<\/p>\n
These questions and these thoughts can
\nhelp you. But ask Jesus from your hearts, pray to the Lord. So that
\nhe can give you the strength to destroy tribalism and hold each
\nothers hand as brothers and sisters. So that you have the courage to
\nnot be corrupted, Offering yourselves for others, by offering a
\ngestures, a word a smile your expressions of closeness.<\/p>\n
In response to Manuel\u00e2??s questions, I
\nam worried about the first thing he said. What can we do to stop
\nyoung people being recruited into radicalization? What can we do
\nafter they have been recruited to try to get them to come back?\u00a0
\nTo
\nanswer this we have to ask why do young people full of ideals allow
\nthemselves to be radicalized in this way? They leave their friends,
\ntheir tribe, their country. They leave their lives behind in order to
\nlearn how to kill. This is question which you yourselves must pose to
\nall people in authority.\u00a0
\nIf a young woman or man has no work, cannot
\nstudy, what can he or she do? A life of delinquency, falling into
\ndrug abuse, or even into suicide. In Europe the statistics of suicide
\nare not published. They get involved or seduced into an activity
\nwhich leads them into a bad path. The first thing we have to do to
\nstop a young person from being recruited is education and work. If a young person has no work than what
\nfuture awaits him or her? And that\u00e2??s where the idea of being
\nseduced or recruited comes in. Even if there are small opportunities,
\nwithout them what can they do? That is the danger. It\u00e2??s a social
\ndanger which is beyond us and it\u00e2??s even beyond the country because
\nit depends on an international system that is unjust. It\u00e2??s the
\ninjustice of having an economic system where the person is not the
\ncenter but rather the god of money.<\/p>\n
Pray! But do it really hard. God is
\nmuch stronger than any recruitment champaign. And then, speak with
\ntenderness, understanding and love and with great patience to invite
\nthem to come watch some football, to walk with you, to be together in
\nyour group, don't allow them to remain on their own.<\/p>\n
Transitory things that end up
\ndestroying you. A question Manuel asked. It\u00e2??s a question that a
\nprofessor in theology might ask. How can we understand that God is
\nour father, how to see his hand in the tragedies of life, how can we
\nfind God\u00e2??s peace? This question men and women all over the world
\nask themselves. And they can\u00e2??t find the reason. And there are some
\nquestions that you can turn around in your minds over and over again
\nand never find the answer. How can I see the hand of God in tragedy?
\nI was going to say there\u00e2??s just one response but no, there\u00e2??s no
\nresponse. There is a path. To look at the Son of God. God endured
\ndeath to save all of us. God became a tragedy. God allowed himself to
\nbe destroyed on the cross.<\/p>\n
When you don\u00e2??t understand something,
\nwhen desperation hits you then look at the cross. That is the great
\nfailure of God, that is the destruction of God, and it\u00e2??s a
\nchallenge to our faith. And this is hope, because history did not end
\nin that failure. Rather it\u00e2??s in the resurrection of Christ that
\nrenewed all of us.<\/p>\n
I am going to tell you something
\npersonal, something
\nprivate. In my pocket I always carry two thing: a rosary to pray
\nsomething which seems odd, this is here is the history of God\u00e2??s
\nfailure, it\u00e2??s the way of the cross, a small way of the cross, as
\nJesus suffered and when they condemned him right up to where he was
\nburied with these two things I do the best I can. And thanks to these
\ntwo things, I never lose hope.<\/p>\n
A last question from our theologian
\nfriend Manuel, what word can you offer to young people who don\u00e2??t
\nexperience love in their families. How is it possible to come out of
\nthis experience?<\/p>\n
Everywhere, there are abandoned
\nchildren, either at birth or as life progressed they were abandoned
\nand they don\u00e2??t feel love from their families.<\/p>\n
This is why family is so important.
\nDefend the family. Defend the family always. everywhere there\u00e2??s not
\nonly kids who are abandoned but also elderly are abandoned with no
\none to visit to them with no-one to love them.<\/p>\n
How do you come out of this very
\nnegative experience? There is one remedy, one remedy alone, to come
\nout of these experiences. To do that which you did not receive. If
\nyou didn\u00e2??t receive understanding, then be understanding with
\nothers.<\/p>\n
If you felt pain of loneliness come
\nclose to those who are alone, flesh is cured by flesh and God became
\nflesh in order to cure us, let\u00e2??s do the same ourselves.<\/p>\n
Well then, before the umpire sounds the
\nbell, it\u00e2??s time to close. I thank you from my heart, first that you
\ncame, second that you allow me to speak in my mother tongue. I am
\nreally grateful you prayed so many rosaries for me. And please, I ask
\nyou to pray for me. Because I too need those prayers and very much
\nso. I count on your prayers and before leaving, if we stand now and
\npray to our heavenly father who has only one defect - he can\u00e2??t stop
\nbeing a father.<\/p>\n
God bless you all, the Father, the Son
\nand the Holy Spirit. Thank you very much!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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