” “"Friends, girlfriends, beauty and fitness, success at school, a satisfying and rewarding job, fun …". These are all "commodities" which justly attract the young. But "if they were everything, when they are not, then they inevitably crumble up in my hands as lifeless dried flowers. Idols are silent". These are the words of cardinal Angelo Scola, the patriarch of Venice, as he spoke to the young Italians in the catechesis he held in Bonn this morning. "If I don’t want to lose the human goods continued the cardinal I have to make room for He who gives them substance. They justly attract us, but then they easily seem to crumble up in front of our eyes. Who will secure them to us in their substance, tearing them away from the failure that breeds boredom? Jesus, the Way to Truth and Life. The tragedy of conversion then is but a fight for the truth, it’s moving from the idol to the living God. Only then can loving, working, resting be rewarding. All goods last if You, oh Christ, are my good. This is the sense of being real worshippers".
