“From the window of the House of the Father concluded the cardinal through a video link in Polish language with the young of Cracow you can see better than we do, so please watch over today’s young people, on their aspirations, their hopes, their worries. John Paul II, Holy Father, thanks for everything”. The vigil attended by about one hundred young people was led by card. Camillo Ruini, who, in introducing the Rosary, highlighted that the eternal life "is our call, our fate. This was the secret of the life and testimony of John Paul II, the source of his ability to love and to suffer". "This life is the fruit of God’s love for us, it is not a blind fate and therefore this life will not end with or be broken by death". The vigil, with the meditations of card. Angelo Comastri, archpriest of Saint Peter’s Basilica, was stopped for a minute of silence at 21.37 h, the time John Paul II died, on April 2nd, 2005. With the young, there were also mgr. Giuseppe Betori, secretary general of the Italian Bishops Conference, and mgr. Renato Boccardo, secretary of the Vatican Governorate.
