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Letters World Youth DayTwo million young Catholics went to Madrid to hear Pope Benedict XVI and hundreds of thousands greeted his arrival with deafening sounds. Yet at the appropriate times - during Mass and during the pauses on the Way of the Cross - the silence was absolute. It tempts one to hope that the lives of many attending were being changed and that on returning home their pride in being Catholic - and their humility in being sinners redeemed by the Passion of Christ - will not be lost. Will WYD returnees find their home churches filled with a great thirst for the sacraments and great zeal for the spread of God's Kingdom? As the Pope says, you cannot be a Christian on your own. The Church is a must. If the Church is imperfect, let's work to make it better - not quit it. ARNOLD JAGO (DR) Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 24 No 9 (October 2011), p. 13 |
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