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PUGNA I've searched someone who combat against me in favor of this land

The Good Youth SecretIntroibo ad altare Dei. R: Ad Deum qui ltificat juventutem meam. (Beginning of the Traditional Latin Mass)

I Will go in to the altar of God!R: To God, Who give joy to my youth!

From left to right and the top line to bottom: Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati; S. Tarcisium; the American Catholic pro-life Jssica Council and her family; Sta. Maria Goretti; S. Josemaria

Escriv in his youth; the little Big Sta. Tereza deTherese of Lisieux; Sta. Bernadete; S. Maximiliano Kolbe; Miraculous Image of Our Lady of Good Counsel of Genazzano; Fr. Demtrio

Gomes celebrating in Carmelo de Montes Claros/MG; Servant of God Carlo Acutis; bottom, Bto. Izidoro Bakanja - o Martyr of the scapular; the brilliant Catholic Writer G. K. Chesterton,

still skinny on 1898; the beatiful Bta. Elisabeth da Trindade; S. Domingos Svio; Sta. Gemma Galgani; Lcia, Francisco e Jacinta (shepherds of Fatima); The little Joseph Ratzinger (Pope

Benedict XVI); Bta. Alexandrina de Balazar; Fechando, Joseph Sarto (Pope Saint Pio X) in his childhood (very rare photo).

he Blessed Virgin Mary, by the Angels Annun-

ciation (Luke 1, 26-38), received the highest

task for a creature, when She still was a teenag-

er. Our Lord taught the teachers in the temple (Luke

2,46) when He was a Child! The religious or marriage

vocation is usually perceived very early. The Holy

Church, in its history, is full of Young martyrs, saints,

virgins, confessors... And we also see several examples of

Young people on the Sacred Scripture. You that are read-

ing this catholic booklet is also young, or at least has a

young soul.

So, has already concluded something? Yes, thats right!

God makes to us the call to follow Him, love Him andserve Him from an early age, already in the youth!Well, it

is fashionable, year of WYD 2013 in Rio de Janeiro. Weve

heard it so much...

There is need to tell something more? Yes, there is still

a need to tell the essential: among the various chal-

lenges faced by Catholic youth, all of them can be sum-

marized in one: to be sanctified!

Just be sanctified? What do you mean?

Much talk about the evangelization of young people and

for the young, but the true evangelization will only be

effective with the preaching of Sanctity. A glass can

only spill what is full; we can only transmit what we

have. The efficacy of the apostolate depends on the

inner life with Christ. That is, a life of prayer, love,

worship and knowledge of Him. Mortification andself-denial for Him in the pursuit of perfection to-

gether with His Mystical Body, the Church of two

thousand years!

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Without Divine Grace, the Sacraments (Confession and

Holy Mass), the virtues (Faith, Hope, and Charity above)

and no tune with the Holy Scriptures, the Tradition and

Magisterium of the Church, it is infeasible true sanctifica-

tion and evangelization. You need to be in a deep union

with Christ to produce good fruits, otherwise, we can

even handstand and ride the circus, but will be an an-

nouncement empty of the Truth of the Gospel. An adviceto many youth groups:the hype of this groups cant

worth without the Catholic doctrine and spirituality.

But, arent you being too radical?

Oh... IF that is what you understand, I say: is that what

really converts, the rest doesnt works. The pursuit of

a holy life is always seen as radical . But, what about

the Crucified? Know, what have conquered so many

youth saints in the course of the Church without counting

the radicalism of Christ and those who followed Him!

What is beautiful and pleasant attracts... Many are at-

tracted by one fashion or another, but only what is a true

conquest! We can do a thousand things to attract or

distract the Young in the churches, but what will

conquer they, in fact, for God, is the Truth of Christ

and His Church, of course, of course with the testi-

mony of this, without abandoning the Cross.

Looking at the photos of the beginning of this Pugna,

ask: What is common among young people that are so

different, who lived in different places and times? If we

check their lives, we will see the radical love to

Christ, in order to dedicate and sacrifice for Him and

for the others; worship (zeal) the Blessed Sacrament

and the filial devotion to the Virgin Mother of God.

Thats the beautiful of Catholicism, thats the secret

to the sanctification of youth! CKECK OUR BLOGS:

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Mother of Good Counsel, pray for us.

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Three answers that young catholics will give:

I To a world that trivializes more and more affectiverelationships:

II To a secularized and anticlerical society:

III For the Peter Pan syndrome, which makes many

teens make things like a little child, even in faith:

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