“Today we need truly ‘transgressive’ young people, non-conformists who are slaves to mobile phones, but who change the world like Mary, bringing Jesus to others, caring for others,” Pope Francis said on Sunday, 20 November just after the Mass presided over in the Cathedral of Asti, in Sunday Angelus. The prayer was specially made up for young people who celebrate World Youth Day in private Churches.
At the end of the Marian prayer, the Pope sent a special thought and a hug to the young people present and thanked them for their participation in World Youth Day.
“The theme, the same as the next WYD in Lisbon, in which I renew my invitation to participate, is ‘Mary got up and left in haste’ (Lk 1:39),” the Pope explained.
“The Virgin did it when she was young, and she tells us that the secret to staying young is precisely in those two verbs, get up and go,” he said.
“Get up and go: not sit still and think about yourself, wasting your life chasing comfort or the latest fad, but aim up, get going, rise above your fears to reach out to those in need,” he said. the Pope next.
Along these lines, he assured that “today we need young people who are truly ‘transgressors’, non-conformists, who are slaves to their motives, but who change the world like Mary, bringing Jesus to others, taking care of others”.
Finally, he remembered the victims of the fire that occurred in a refugee camp in Palestine and the tormented Ukraine and invited those present to pray to the Virgin Mary, Queen of Peace, for the end of the war.