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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”

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Vatican City, November 30, 2013 – “To live, never scrape a living.” He asked the Pope encountering the university for the Vespers of Advent. An “open mind” does not allow “affect the prevailing opinion” and the “globalized world” young people contribute to “save their own characteristics” without “lowering the level of ethics.”

Francis Pope remarked “challenges” that young people are “called to deal with inner strength and courage of the Gospel and denounced the” socio-cultural

context “sometimes” weighed down by mediocrity ‘and the boredom. ” Pope Better World has asked not to be “stealing the youthful enthusiasm” and not “let himself be imprisoned by the uniform weak thought and thought as well – he said – from a globalization understood as approval.” “The thought – said the Pope – is fertile and when ‘expression of an open mind, discerning, always illuminated by the truth’, from goodness and beauty, if you will not let affect the prevailing opinion, but remain faithful to the principles ethical and religious Christians, 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 honest’ and intellectual rigor, so ‘everyone can’ be a gift for the benefit of all.”

Into the living consistent with the Gospel, he suggested, ‘may’ be of help the beautiful witness of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, who said: ‘To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend without support in a continuous struggle the truth ‘, not’ live but vivacchiare. We must never scrape a living, but to live. ‘”
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. “