You have come to Rome, in this Jubilee of the two thousandth anniversary of Christs birth, in order to open your hearts to the power of life which is in him. You have come here to rediscover the truth about creation and to recover a sense of wonder at the beauty and the richness of the created world. You have come to renew within yourselves the awareness of the dignity of man, created in the image and likeness of God. The Gospel, on the contrary, makes it clear that man is a being made for life . Every person is called by God to share in the divine life.
Man is a being called to glory.
These days, which you will spend together in Rome at the World Youth Day, should help each of you to see more clearly the glory which belongs to the Son of God and to which we have been called in him by the Father. For this to happen, your faith in Christ must grow and be strengthened. These words invite us to fix our eyes on the mystery that He is. The whole created world, before ever it came to be, was in the mind of God and was willed by Him in an eternal plan of love. Therefore, if we look at the world in depth, allowing ourselves to marvel at the wisdom and beauty which God has poured out upon it, we can see in it a reflection of the Word, which biblical revelation unveils for us fully in the face of Jesus of Nazareth.