Young people of the Antilles received a video message from His Holiness Pope Francis on Sunday, as they gathered for the 6th Antilles Episcopal Conference Youth Assembly. They are meeting as part of the 6th Antilles Episcopal Conference Youth Assembly, from July 10-23, and are focusing especially on how to transform the Family in the Caribbean in line with Amoris Laetitia.
As reported by en.vaticannews.va, Holy Father Pope Francis remarked that “It’s a challenging issue. And you’re young. But I do wonder: are you young people, or young people who have grown old? Because if you are young people who have grown old, you cannot do anything! You have to be youthful young people! It takes all the strength of youth to be able to change things. And the first thing you need to do is check to see if you have made yourselves too comfortable. It’s not a good thing if you have. You need to make it uncomfortable for those who have made themselves too comfortable, and get involved.” Further, His Holiness added, “You want to change things, you want to move forward. You have taken seriously the indications of the Post-Synodal Exhortation on the Family, and you want to move ahead with transforming the family of the Caribbean. You want to transform it today for tomorrow: working in the present to build the future. And today, if you want to understand the present, you must know how to describe it, how to understand it, in order to face tomorrow. To make the journey from today to tomorrow, you need the teaching on the family, and you can find it in the Chapter Four of the Exhortation: the heart of it is there. Study it, examine it, and you will have the guidelines you need to move forward.”
The Pontiff concluded his video message by exhorting that “You have a lot of work to do! Keep going. May God bless you. I pray for you, and I ask you please do not forget to pray for me. Goodbye.”
