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We here at St. Michael Parish are excited to announce the beginning of a bold new initiative for the teens here in North Andover. Our teens, you, are not merely the future of the Church but are the Church today.
We want to walk with you.
We want to share the faith with you.
We want to support you.
We want to encourage you.
We want to have fun with you.
We welcome you here at St. Michael.
Recently Pope Francis met with a large group of high school students, and he took spontaneous questions from the teens:
We want to walk with you.
We want to share the faith with you.
We want to support you.
We want to encourage you.
We want to have fun with you.
We welcome you here at St. Michael.
Recently Pope Francis met with a large group of high school students, and he took spontaneous questions from the teens:
A boy: I am Francesco Bassani. I am a boy who, Papa, seeks to believe. I am searching… searching, yes, to be faithful. However I have difficulties. Sometimes doubts come to me. And I believe that this is absolutely normal for my age. Since you are the Pope I wanted to ask you for a few words to help me in my growth and to support all the other young people like me.
Pope Francis: Walking is an art; if we are always in a hurry we tire and cannot reach our destination, the destination of our journey. Yet if we stop and do not move, we also fail to reach our destination. Walking is precisely the art of looking to the horizon, thinking about where I want to go, and also coping with the weariness that comes from walking. Moreover, the way is often hard-going, it is not easy. “I want to stay faithful to this journey, but it is not easy; listen: there is darkness, there are days of darkness, days of failure, and some days of falling… someone falls, falls”. Yet always keep this in your thoughts: do not be afraid of failure, do not be afraid of falling. In the art of walking it is not falling that matters, but not “staying fallen”. Get up quickly, immediately, and continue to go on. And this is beautiful: it is working every day, it is walking humanly. But also: it is terrible to walk alone, terrible and tedious. Walking in community, with friends, with those who love us: this helps us, it helps us to arrive precisely at the destination where we must arrive. I don’t know if I have answered your question. Have you understood? You won’t be afraid of the journey? Thank you.
Hearing the Pope we want to build that community,
with friends,
with those who love us,
that make faith, that make life, worth living
with friends,
with those who love us,
that make faith, that make life, worth living
