As
with all World Youth Days the Pope prepares a message for
the youth of the world, this year his message is a call
to each and every one of us to open our hearts and allow
ourselves to see Jesus.
The
first part of the message calls us to open ourselves to
God, to allow Him to see us; in order to see Jesus we must
first let Him look at us, the most beautiful aspect of human
dignity is precisely man’s vocation to communicate
with God in an exchange of glances that are life transforming
.“allow
Jesus to gaze into your eyes so that the desire to see the
light, and to experience the splendour of the truth may
grow within you.”
In
our daily struggle for direction the Holy Father asks us
to seek the face of God in the silence of our heart and
in the faces of all we meet: “Seek Him with the
Eyes of the flesh through the events of life and in the
faces of others; but seek him too with the eyes of the soul
through prayer and meditation on the Word of God”.
Jesus calls us to true freedom and that means having the
strength to choose the One for whom we were created. The
Pope asks us not to lose heart in this search for God in
our lives because “it is your fulfilment and your
joy that is at stake."
When
we find God in our self and in the world around us we are
asked to share Him with others. “Your contemporaries
expect you to be witnesses of the One whom you have met
and who gives you life…Put your talents and your youthful
enthusiasm at the service of the proclamation of the Good
News. Be enthusiastic friends of Jesus who present the Lord
to all who wish to see Him.”
