Source:
CNA/EWTN News
During
evening prayer with college students of Rome on Nov. 30, Pope Francis
emphasized the importance of remaining faithful to the truth in the face of
modern ideologies.
“If
you don’t let yourselves be conditioned by prevailing opinions, but remain
faithful to Christian ethical and religious principles, you will find the
courage even to go against the current,” he said.
“The
fullness of the Christian life that God carries out in man, in fact, is always
threatened by the temptation to succumb to the spirit of the world,” he
cautioned.
“For
this reason God gives us his aid by which we can preserve the gifts of the Holy
Spirit, the new life in the Spirit that He has given us.”
“Dear
young university students,” Pope Francis encouraged, “your willpower and your
capabilities, united to the power of the Holy Spirit that lives in each one of
you from the day of your baptism, permits you to be not spectators, but
protagonists in contemporary events.”
He
then acknowledged the importance of facing life’s many difficulties. “One can’t
live without looking at the challenges, without responding to the challenges.”
But
“God is more powerful than our weaknesses,” he stressed. “God’s faithfulness
never disappoints.”
“There
are several challenges that you university students are called to confront with
inner strength and evangelical courage,” he continued.


































