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“The World needs the testimony of your faith” the Pope urges young people at Cuatro Vientos
Cuatro Vientos airbase was witness to the WYD concluding Mass celebrated by the Pope

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Benedict XVI encouraged young people to follow God: Answer Him generously and bravely, as fitting hearts as young as yours”
     
At the end of the Holy Mass, He announced that the venue for the next World Youth Day will be in Río de Janeiro (Brazil), in 2013

Madrid, August 21st 2011.-  “It is not possible to find Christ and not tell others about Him. So, do not keep Christ for yourselves. Communicate the joy of your Faith to others. The World needs the testimony of your faith.” With these words the Holy Father invited young people present at the World Youth day (WYD) concluding Mass to share the faith they profess with their contemporaries..

The Holy Father’s words were full of references to Jesus Christ, the Church and the sacraments. He pointed out that “faith does not just give us information about the identity of Christ, but it means a personal relationship with Him, the adherence of the whole being, with his intelligence, will and feelings to the manifestation that God makes of Himself.”

mass2“He also urged young people to follow God: “Answer Him generously and bravely, as fitting hearts as young as yours. Say to Him: Jesus, I know that you are the Son of God, that you gave your life for me. I want to follow you in happiness, let me be guided by your word”. 

As well as urging them to walk with Christ, he reminded them of the need to follow Him within the Church, receiving the sacraments: “For your friendship with Christ to grow it is fundamental to recognise the importance of your joyful insertion in  parishes, communities and movements, as well as your participation in the Eucharist every Sunday, the frequent reception of the sacrament of forgiveness, and the cultivation of prayer and meditation of the Word of God.”

This celebration of the Eucharist began at ten in the morning after the Pope had driven around the airbase to greet the young people most of whom had spent the night at Cuatro Vientos. 


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At the end of Holy Mass, amidst the cries of joy of the Brazilians present, the venue for the next World Youth Day was announced as Río de Janeiro (Brazil).  This will take place in two years time, in 2013.

Alter this event, the Holy father will meet with World Youth Day volunteers at IFEMA, at 5.30 pm. 

 

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The Daily Gospel

  • Saturday, 28 January 2012 : 2nd book of Samuel 12:1-7a.10-17.
    The LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he came to him, he said: "Judge this case for me! In a certain town there were two men, one rich, the other poor. The rich man had flocks and herds in great numbers. But the poor man had nothing at all except one little ewe lamb that he had bought. He nourished her, and she grew up with him and his children. She shared the little food he had and drank from his cup and slept in his bosom. She was like a daughter to him. Now, the rich man received a visitor, but he would not take from his own flocks and herds to prepare a meal for the wayfarer who had come to him. Instead he took the poor man's ewe lamb and made a meal of it for his visitor." David grew very angry with that man and said to Nathan: "As the LORD lives, the man who has done this merits death! He shall restore the ewe lamb fourfold because he has done this and has had no pity." Then Nathan said to David: "You are the man! Thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'I anointed you king of Israel. I rescued you from the hand of Saul. Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah to be your wife.' Thus says the LORD: 'I will bring evil upon you out of your own house. I will take your wives while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor. He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight. You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.'" Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." Nathan answered David: "The LORD on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die. But since you have utterly spurned the LORD by this deed, the child born to you must surely die." Then Nathan returned to his house. The LORD struck the child that the wife of Uriah had borne to David, and it became desperately ill. David besought God for the child. He kept a fast, retiring for the night to lie on the ground clothed in sackcloth. The elders of his house stood beside him urging him to rise from the ground; but he would not, nor would he take food with them.