“Young people are needed to change the world and not slaves to mobile phones”, says Pope Francis

The Pope Francisco affirmed that today they are neededreally transgressive young people, non-conformists” Y “that they are not slaves of the mobile, but that they change the world”, during his message after mass and the Angelus prayer that he celebrated in the town of Asti, in Piedmont (northwestern Italy), the land of his father and grandparents.

Francisco He recalled that today, a feast dedicated to Christ the King, World Youth Day (WYD) is celebrated in local churches and that the theme, the same as the one that will be for WYD in Lisbon, scheduled for August 2023: “Mary got up and left without delay.”

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For this reason, he invited the young people to “get up and go” to “not sit still thinking about oneself, wasting life after comforts and the latest fashions, but to look up, set out, get out of one’s own fears to reach out to those who need it.”

“And today there is a need for truly transgressive young people, non-conformists, who are not slaves to mobile phones, but who change the world like Mary, bringing Jesus to others, caring for others, building fraternal communities with others, realizing dreams of peace”added the pontiff.

At the end of this celebration, Francisco thanked “enthusiastic welcome” that they offered him in the land of his ancestors and concluded with some phrases in Piedmontese dialect, which they say he knows, because that is how his grandparents spoke to him.

During the mass, in the cathedral of Asti, the pope had recalled: “My father left these lands to emigrate to Argentina. And in these lands, valuable for their good agricultural products and above all for the authentic industriousness of the people, I have come to rediscover the flavor of the roots”.

Francisco traveled this Saturday to the small town of portacomaro, to visit his cousins ​​and have lunch at the home of his cousin Carla Ravezana, who just turned 90. Giorgio, as she calls him, is the son of Mario Bergoglio, her mother’s first cousin Inés.

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Before lunch, the pontiff wanted to make a stop at the Portacomaro church, where his family used to go and at the end of the meal, he visited the nursing home that is located right in front of his cousin’s house and entertained himself chatting with some of the residents.

The Pope also visited Tigliole in the afternoon, another small town in the Asti area, where another family of cousins ​​lives and another of his cousins ​​to whom he is very close, Delia Gai.

Source: Elcomercio

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