"Dear university students, my friends, I will be waiting for you to come in great numbers!". This is the appeal made yesterday by the Pope to the young, after saying the Angelus prayer. "Next Saturday recalled Benedict XVI , I will officiate the Marian vigil of the young university students of Rome. It will be attended, via a radio/TV link, by students from other countries in Europe and the Americas. We will invoke the intercession of Maria Sedes Sapientiae, so that the Christian hope will support the building of the civilisation of love in these two continents and all over the world". Also after the Angelus prayer, the Holy Father mentioned the "recent floods" that caused "very serious damage" in Ecuador. "As I entrust to the Lord the victims of such calamity said the Pontiff , I express my sympathy with all those people who are going through such a time of anguish and tribulation, and I invite everyone to feel fraternal solidarity, so that the populations of those areas may go back as soon as possible to the normality of everyday life". As just a few hours earlier in the Roman parish church of Our Lady Help of Christians, during the Angelus prayer, the Pope lingered on the conversation between Jesus and the Samaritan woman: "Christ’s thirst is a door into the mystery of God", explained Benedict XVI, who "is thirsty for our faith and our love". The Samaria’s woman instead stands for "the existential dissatisfaction of those people who have not found what they were looking for".
