” “"Dear young friends Pope Benedict XVI continued the Lord is asking you to be prophets of this new age, messengers of his love, drawing people to the Father and building a future of hope for all humanity". It is clear that the world "needs this renewal! In so many of our societies, side by side with material prosperity, a spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair. How many of our contemporaries have built broken and empty cisterns, – reflected the Pope in a desperate search for meaning the ultimate meaning that only love can give?". The Pope clarified that this "is the great and liberating gift which the Gospel brings: it reveals our dignity as men and women created in the image and likeness of God. It reveals humanity’s sublime calling, which is to find fulfilment in love. It discloses the truth about man and the truth about life". Furthermore, the Holy Father underscored that the Church too "needs this renewal! She needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that She can always be young in the Spirit". (to be continued)” “
