In an article that appeared on the front page of February 12 edition of L’Osservatore Romano,
Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti of Perugia reflected on the 2018 synod,
which will be devoted to young people, faith, and vocational
discernment.
Recalling that Mother Teresa said, “I belong entirely to the Heart of
Jesus,” Cardinal Bassetti wrote that it is “necessary to announce
clearly to our young people: to be priests or nuns, religious or
missionaries is to live a most beautiful existence … without shortcuts
or compromises.”
Quoting Pope Francis’s encyclical Lumen Fidei, he added that
“faith is no refuge for the fainthearted, but something which enhances
our lives. It makes us aware of a magnificent calling, the vocation of
love.”
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