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#494 Dear Young People, "In You There Is Hope!"...but to discover it you must seek the truth more passionately than the generation that proceeded you


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“In you there is hope, for you belong to the future, just as the future belongs to you. For hope is always linked to the future; it is the expectation of future good things.” --Pope John Paul ll

As a Christian virtue hope is linked to the expectation of those eternal good things which God has promised to man in Jesus Christ. And at the same time, this hope, as both a Christian and a human virtue, is the expectation of the good things which man will build, using the talents given him by Providence.[1]

In this sense the future belongs to you young people, just as it once belonged to the generation of those who are now adults, and precisely together with them it has become the present reality. Responsibility for this present reality and for its shape and many different forms lies first of all with adults. To you belongs responsibility for what will one day become reality together with yourselves, but which still lies in the future.[2]

When we say that the future belongs to you, we are thinking of human impermanence, which is always a journey towards the future.[3] The world that you find yourself in at this moment took shape by the young people who came before you and are now grown up. How did they do? Are you happy with the world, and if not, what will you do differently? 

I ask, do you have hope? Not all young people do. My heart goes out to them and to you, these are confusing times in which to grow up.

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[1] Pope John Paul II, Dilecti Amici, No. 1.
[2] Ibid
[3] Cf. Ibid

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