- The archbishop inaugurated the VII Christian Reception Congress on the Ways of St. James, dedicated to young people and the Way of Saint James
“Young people must perceive that they are loved intensely and that they are the hope of the Church, rich in a past full of grace and always young.” “We have to help young people to live with dignity and not get carried away by lies, the show of the mere subjectivity of taste, pleasure or violence. We must encourage them to seek the truth that is a source of freedom, service and liberation. ” This is how the Archbishop of Santiago, Monsignor Julián Barrio, spoke on Thursday at the inauguration of the VII Christian Reception Congress on the Ways of Santiago (ACC), a meeting entitled “He walked with them. Young people and the Camino de Santiago ”. The president of the Christian Reception Foundation also participated in the opening of the congress in the Ways of Santiago and Dean of the Cathedral, Segundo Pérez López.
In an intervention full of references to the exhortation Christus vivit (fruit of the recent Synod of Youth), Monsignor Barrio said that “young people have to take life in both hands and build it every morning and every afternoon, remembering the demands of that they must be faithful for a quality of life according to God’s project, and recognizing truth and love as authentic criteria in their performance. They should not allow the question about God to dissolve in their soul for lack of an ideal, of enthusiasm, of desire to do something. ” And he added that “in the Holy Year we have to live with hope for the present moment, making them be able to meet Jesus, reminding them that God loves us, that Christ saves us, that he lives, making his Spirit inhabit us.”
The archbishop also recalled that “when young people were asked in the preparation of the Synod of Bishops on what initiatives and formation paths were proposed, a significant response was the Camino de Santiago as a way of accompanying discernment. spiritual”.
