“How many young people do we see consumed by boredom, by the feeling that life is too much, without taste and meaning , boredom sometimes masked by an artificial light-heartedness or meaningless agitation! How much violence on the part of those who no longer know how to love and seek success in the approval or possession of others! How can we fail to think, again, of the many young people who are sent to kill in wars and of those who die on journeys undertaken to conquer a more worthy future? ». This was said by the archbishop of Cagliari and secretary of the Italian Bishops' Conference, Monsignor Giuseppe Baturi, during Mass in Lisbon, Portugal, where World Youth Day will be celebrated next week.
In his homily, Baturi also launched an appeal on behalf of the CEI to all young people: "Run towards your peers with the richness of your hope and participate with the creativity of which you are capable in building a different world, made up of truth and of love , where one does not die of hunger and hatred, and where everyone, without distinction, can walk together towards endless happiness».
(Unioneonline/lf)