From the Canção Nova Newsroom with Vatican Radio
From 14 to July 19, it , the Second National Meeting of Youth Movements and New Communities took place in Belém (Paraná) Brazil. Young people attending the event, drafted a letter to be sent to Pope Francis, the Bishops and young people in Brazil. In it, they report the experience at the event and say they believe in a transformation based on the communion of charisms.
“Guests coming out to announce the living Jesus Christ, we believe it is possible to intensify a revolution for love and unity even in diversity.” Participants of the meeting were about 300 leaders from more than 44 ecclesial expressions of the Church in Brazil.
Representatives recall the words of Pope Francisco during World Youth Day (WYD) 2013, held in Rio de Janeiro, when the pontiff urged young people to be “protagonists in history.”
Further as was the missionary experience held in Bethlehem, in which were to realities of social exclusion and existential. “We went out to meet our brothers who were in the streets, fairs, in bars, on islands, in shelters, in communities, in boats, on buses. The realities that we find lead us to a permanent state of mission. “
Young people point out that these environments, even in the face of suffering, they found a devout and friendly people.
Given this experience, they return to part of the encyclical Laudato Si: “Therefore the Church, with its action, seeks not only to recall the duty to take care of nature, but also ‘above all protect mankind from destruction of itself.'”
Finally, young people thank the Pope for believing in youth and seeing in them the present and the future of the Church, and ask for his prayers. The document will be forwarded to the Vatican by the Episcopal Commission for Pastoral Youth of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB).