You need to be young to follow Jesus, or else become young. He even asks that one become a child – every day and in every moment, freeing oneself from the sickness of spiritual senility. Because, if the spirit ages, it is held down and it can never soar. Therefore, one always needs to be reborn, begin again, and become new: Jesus.
It is often said that the youth of today are skeptical, perhaps cynical…
If that’s true, it might be a case of posture or style which lies beneath a sense of amazement before of a generation that was born in the midst of an inhumane waste of energy in the production of death.
It is materialism that scares, deludes and arrests today’s
youth who, by nature, react to a standard of living made up only of economic calculations and sensorial entertainment, of a singular battle for the belly…
This is the divine lesson behind this human crisis on which we pour so much makeup, tears and Coca-Cola: you can’t live without an absolute. Jesus walks by and young people see him, if the sight of him is not obstructed by the insurgence of proud human beings, that is, people who feel that they are better than others because of their money or political power…
Young people can immediately pick out the pure and divine countenance of Jesus. They leave father and mother, fiancé and wealth, praise and comfort – first on the path of the apostolate and then Calvary. They want Christ and Christ Crucified. Christ in his entirety, all in all: the only ideal. And they want his spirit, which is love: this divine blood that conquers death; which is intelligence and wisdom and bond of unity.
