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>>Greeting of the Pope to the youth of Chile at the Shrine of Maipú
January 17, 2018
El Papa Francisco sostuvo un emotivo y alegre encuentro con los jóvenes en el Santuario Nacional de Maipú, a quienes alentó a preguntarse constantemente qué haría Cristo en su lugar.
A continuación el texto completo de las palabras del Santo Padre:
Yo también Ariel estoy gozoso de estar con ustedes. Gracias por tus palabras de bienvenida en nombre de todos los aquí presentes. Simplemente estoy agradecido por compartir este tiempo como ustedes, que según leí: ahí se bajaron del sofá y se pusieron los zapatos. Gracias. Considero, para mí, importante poder encontrarnos y caminar juntos un rato, ¡Que nos ayudemos a mirar hacia delante! y creo también para ustedes es importante!. Gracias.
Y me alegra que este encuentro se realice aquí en Maipú. En esta tierra donde con un abrazo de fraternidad se fundó la historia de Chile; en este Santuario que se levanta en el cruce de los caminos del Norte y del Sur, que une la nieve y el océano, y hace que el cielo y la tierra tengan un hogar. Hogar para Chile, hogar para ustedes queridos jóvenes, donde la Virgen del Carmen los espera, los recibe con el corazón abierto.
[Partial Google Translation: Pope Francis held an emotional and joyful encounter with the young people in the National Shrine of Maipú, whom he encouraged to constantly ask themselves what Christ would do in his place.
Here is the full text of the words of the Holy Father:
I, too, Ariel, I am glad to be with you. Thank you for your words of welcome on behalf of all present here. I am just grateful to share this time as you, as I read: there they got off the couch and put on their shoes. Thank you. I consider, for me, important to be able to meet and walk together for a while, that we help us to look forward! and I think it’s important to you too! Thank you.
And I’m glad that this meeting takes place here in Maipú. In this land where the history of Chile was founded with a hug of fraternity; in this Shrine that rises at the junction of the North and South roads, that unites the snow and the ocean, and makes heaven and earth a home. Home for Chile, home for you dear young people, where the Virgin of Carmen awaits you, receives you with an open heart.
And as he accompanied the birth of this Nation and accompanied so many Chileans throughout these two hundred years, he wants to continue accompanying the dreams that God puts in your heart: dreams of freedom, dreams of joy, dreams of a better future.
You want, as you said Ariel, to ‘be protagonists of change’. Be protagonists. The Virgin of Carmen accompanies them so that they are the protagonists of the Chile that their hearts dream of. And I know that the heart of young Chileans dreams, and dreams big, not only when they are a little ‘curaditos’, no. They always dream big, because of these lands have been born experiences that were expanding and multiplying throughout various countries of our continent.]
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