Pope Francis has written a message to youth taking part in a five-youth festival in Medjugorje, the site of the alleged Marian apparitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“There is no better will for us than that of the Father, which is the plan of love for us in view of the perspective of His Kingdom and our full happiness,” the Pope wrote. “We are often afraid of this will, because we fear that God might impose something on us by pure chance, and not for our good; we fear that accepting His will would mean to renounce our freedom.”
“Instead, we must seek diligently —to ask God the Father to grant us to come to know His will and to ask for it be fulfilled in us,” he added. “May the Most Holy Mother Mary accompany you and teach you to discern and accept the will of the Heavenly Father in your life.”