Pope Francis has asked to us to pray for peace in Democratic Republic of Congo (Kasai). He prayed for Colombia, Venezuela and Paraguay.
That young people may respond generously to their vocations and seriously consider offering themselves to God in the priesthood or consecrated life.
[…] In Christ you find fulfilled your every desire for goodness and happiness. He alone can satisfy your deepest longings, which are so often clouded by deceptive worldly promises. As Saint John Paul II said: “He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is he who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is he who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is he who reads in your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle. It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives” (cf. Discourse at the Prayer Vigil at Tor Vergata, 19 August 2000: Insegnamenti XXIII/2, [2000], 212). […]
