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“To live, never scrape a living.” He asked the Pope met the university for the Vespers of Advent. An “open mind” does not allow “affect the prevailing opinion” and the “globalized world”

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Papa Francesco

Vatican City, November 30, 2013

“Do not spectators but actors” in the “challenges” of the contemporary world. Not mediocre or bored, not approved. “You can not live without looking at the challenges,” “not been to the balcony, struggle for dignity and against poverty.” This lifestyle has proposed that the Latin American pope to the young people, celebrating Vespers in the Vatican Basilica of Advent, the first meeting with the university students of the Roman universities of his pontificate.

“To live, never scrape a living,” he said, and “do not be stealing the enthusiasm of youth.” The students of the Roman universities, particularly those pontifical are a cross-section of young people from different parts of the world. Meeting them today, in a liturgical context and prayer, Pope Bergoglio has launched some messages, on the line of other meetings with the guys, like, among others, the one with the young Argentine, in Rio, as part of World Youth Day . Among other things, arm, inserted a reminder not to live according to the balcony.

were present in the basilica also deans and faculty from other Italian universities, cardinals, several authorities, including the mayor of Rome, Ignazio Marino. Pope Francis has asked the university to be inspired not to the “ball” that “level projections and differences,” but the “polyhedron”, which respects the “multiplicity” and “unity in diversity”. Do not be “stealing the enthusiasm of youth,” he urged, must “live, never scrape a living,” as Piergiorgio Frassati, Piedmont boy of a good family of the twentieth century, that the Church today is a blessed.

“The thought – said the Pope – is fruitful when it is an expression of an open mind, discerning, more enlightened by truth, the good and the beauty if you will not let affect the prevailing opinion, but remain faithful to the Christian ethical and religious principles, you will find the courage to even go against the current. ” “The plurality of thought and individuality – said Pope Francis – reflects the manifold wisdom of God when he approached the truth with honesty and intellectual rigor, so that everyone can be a gift for the benefit of all.”

Into the living consistent with the Gospel, he suggested, “may help the beautiful witness of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, who said: ‘To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without support in the fight continues truth, not to live but vivacchiare. vivacchiare We must never, but to live. ‘” “You know, dear students – the Pope said in an insert in the arm – that you can not live without looking at the challenges, without responding to the challenges.” “Please – recommended – do not look at life from the balcony, mingle there where there are challenges, life, development and the fight for the dignity of persons and the fight against poverty, the fight for the values ??and many struggles that we find every day. “

Before you begin vespers, the pope listened very carefully to the greeting of a rector – which was not provided the name nor the university of origin – who denounced the failure of the “meritocracy” in front of ” survival of the fittest “, the” cuts “decreed by the dictatorship of the” rating agencies, of obedience to finance. ” The professor also said the case of students who work illegally to pay for the studies to the only brother that the family can keep the university, and denounced the “death of a middle class.” In this context, he said the rector, is vital to the Pope’s call to the “values”: “we need – he said – his call to hope, and charity” and “we will be asked how we used the talents” without succumbing to ‘”utilitarianism immediate.”

Pope Francis has dropped in the Vatican Basilica at around 17.30, but before his arrival, starting at 16, the Cardinal Vicar of Rome. Agostino Vallini upheld the icon of Mary, Seat of Wisdom, patroness of college students. At the end of vespers, the icon of Mary Seat of Wisdom is given by the university Brazilians – who had guarded for the celebration of World Youth Day in Rio during the year of faith – a delegation of French university.