Youth of the Marian Movement
«Thank God for the World Youth Days! Thanks be to God for all the young people who have been involved in them in the past sixteen years! Many of them are now adults who continue to live their faith in their homes and work-places. I am sure, dear friends, that you too will be as good as those who preceded you. You will carry the proclamation of Christ into the new millennium.
When you return home, do not grow lax. Reinforce and deepen your bond with the Christian communities to which you belong. From Rome, from the City of Peter and Paul, the Pope follows you with affection and, paraphrasing Saint Catherine of Siena's words, reminds you: "If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze!"» (Giovanni Paolo II, 15th World Youth Day, Roma - Tor Vergata, 08/20/2000).
«In these difficult and painful years, I open the refuge of my Immaculate Heart especially to my young folk. My Heart-of-a-Mother thus becomes for you your secure refuge. (...)
My Immaculate Heart is your refuge, in which I gather you together, as in a new spiritual Cenacle, to obtain for you the gift of the Holy Spirit, who would transform you into apostles of the second evangelization» (To the priests, Our Lady's beloved sons, 06/11/1994)
