The Pope asks young people for moments of listening and silence in the face of “messages, reels and chats”.
Rome, March 28 (EFE)
Pope Leo XIV asked young people for “moments of silence and listening, to quiet the frenzy of doing and saying, of messages, reels, and chats,” during a meeting with young people in Monaco, where he is visiting this Saturday.
During this brief nine-hour visit to the Principality of Monaco, Leo XIV went to the Church of Saint Devota for a meeting with young people. After listening to some of their testimonies, he lamented that “we live in a world that always seems to be in a hurry, eager for novelty, loving a fluidity without ties, marked by an almost compulsive need for continuous change: in fashions, in appearance, in relationships, in ideas, and even in dimensions that constitute a person’s identity.”
He asserted that the inner emptiness that young people sometimes experience “cannot be filled with material and fleeting things, nor even with the recognition of thousands of ‘likes,’ or with conditioning, artificial, sometimes even violent affiliations.”
“We must clear the door of our hearts of these things, so that the fresh, oxygenating air of grace can once again refresh and revitalize its chambers, and so that the strong wind of the Holy Spirit can once again fill the sails of our lives, propelling them toward true happiness,” the Pope said.
He affirmed that all of this “requires prayer, moments of silence and listening, to quiet the frenzy of doing and saying, of messages, reels, and chats, and to deepen and savor the beauty of truly and concretely being together.”
The American Pope, who later dedicated time to greeting young people, also invited them to “give themselves completely to the Lord and to others.”
“The world needs your witness to overcome the drifts of our time and face its challenges, and above all to rediscover the sweet taste of love for God and neighbor,” he added.
