Just as salt gives flavour to food and light illumines the
darkness, so too holiness gives full meaning to life and makes it
reflect God's glory. How many saints, especially young saints,
can we count in the Church's history! In their love for God their
heroic virtues shone before the world, and so they became models of
life which the Church has held up for imitation by all. Let us remember
only a few of them: Agnes of Rome, Andrew of Phú Yên,
Pedro Calungsod, Josephine Bakhita, Thérèse of Lisieux,
Pier Giorgio Frassati, Marcel Callo, Francisco Castelló Aleu
or again Kateri Tekakwitha, the young Iroquois called "the Lily
of the Mohawks". Through the intercession of this great host
of witnesses, may God make you too, dear young people, the saints
of the third millennium!
- Pope John Paul II, Message
to the Youth on the XXVII World Youth Day, Toronto
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Who
would you describe as "beautiful"? Do you think anyone
would describe you with a word like that? You may have heard
the expression, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Perhaps
you think of it as just a nice saying, but there's an important truth
in it. Jesus sees you just the way you are, and He says you're 'beautiful.'
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