Get some rest

With the upcoming Jubilee opening at the end of this year in mind, we offer you an excerpt from the Holy Father's recent message, delivered for the 38th World Youth Day.

Hope is nourished by prayer. We preserve and renew hope through prayer. We keep the spark of hope burning brightly through prayer. “Prayer is the primary force of hope. You pray and hope grows, you move forward” (catechesis of May 20, 2020). To pray is like gaining altitude: often when we are on the ground, we cannot see the sun because the sky is covered with clouds. But if we rise above the clouds, the light and warmth of the sun envelop us, and in this experience we rediscover the certainty that the sun is always present, even when everything seems gray.

Dear young people, when the thick fog of fear, doubt, and oppression surrounds you and you can no longer see the sun, turn to prayer. For “even if no one listens to me anymore, God still listens to me” (Benedict XVI, Spe salvi, no. 32). Let us take time each day to rest in God in the face of the anxieties that assail us: “My soul finds rest in God alone; my hope comes from him” (Psalm 62:6).

Pope Francis