Your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. Since St. Peter took this verse of the prophet Joel to announce the new age of Christ Our Lord, young men and women have carried the vision of the Spirit into classrooms and laboratories, into offices and factories, into neighborhoods and cities. They have founded new homes and reared new families. Long experience and ripe wisdom have indeed been the gifts of an older generation.
Visions come naturally to young men and women.
Otherwise they would not enroll in terribly complex studies, tackles jobs that savor more of the heroic than the secure. A young man, on the eve of going off to battle, marries a girl in what surely could be termed a risk, but hardly a calculated one. And when God was willing, vision and prophecy accompanied the decision. The world needs the men and women of this harvest-time of life. How poor our Church would be today without the years of Pope John, the mind of Jacques Maritain, the open heart of Cardinal Bea.