Love, noticed Benedict XVI, "is therefore the ‘heart’ of Christian life; only love, aroused in us by the Holy Spirit, makes us the witnesses of Christ". "I wanted to insist on this important spiritual truth he added in the Message for the XXIII World Youth Day", which will be announced on Friday 20th July: "You will draw strength from the Holy Spirit that will descend onto you and you will be my witnesses". Then the Pope invited the young to reflect on this subject over the next few months, in the run-up "to the big event that will take place in Sydney, Australia, in one year’s time, just on these same days in July". "The Christian communities of that beloved country he recalled are working hard to welcome you, and I am grateful to them for the organisational efforts they are making". Then the Holy Father entrusted to Mary "the path of preparation to and the accomplishment of the next youth meeting of the whole world", to which he invited the boys and girls of every continent "to come in big numbers". Finally, he greeted the bishops who were there: mgr. Andrich, bishop of Belluno-Feltre, mgr. Mazzocato, bishop of Treviso, mgr. Magnani, emeritus bishop of Treviso, and mgr. Pasqualotto, auxiliary bishop of Manaus, Brazil, originally from Treviso. A "very warm" greeting to the young people working in the summer campuses in Cadore.
