It was interrupted by cheering some 20 times. Christ and the Church need your special talents. Youth is a time of physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual development, he noted. But this does not mean that you can put off until later your meeting with Christ and your sharing in the Church's mission. Your training will never be finished.
Christians are always in training.
In the second part of his remarks, following another Gospel reading, the Pope gained even more momentum. And already in parts of this nation, laws have been passed which allow doctors to end the lives of the very people they are sworn to help. God's gift of life is being rejected. But the Pope said through Jesus young people can be the light of the world. He praised chastity and God's plan for the union of a man and woman in marriage.