Dec 14, 2007 / 08:49 am
Say ‘yes’ to the divine call, was Pope Benedict’s message to a crowd of Roman university students who met with him yesterday evening in St. Peter’s Basilica.
The students listened to the Holy Father as he spoke about two important topics: their own spiritual formation and the importance of God for having hope in the modern world.
Among the young people gathered in the basilica were 150 university students from the diocese of Rome who have decided to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation on the eve of Pentecost this coming year. Addressing them and the other young people present, the Pope invited them "to turn their gaze to the Virgin Mary. From her 'yes' you should learn to pronounce your own 'yes' to the divine call,” he taught them.
Encouraging them to be generous in their ‘yes’ to God, Benedict explained that “[t]he Holy Spirit enters our lives in the extent to which we open our hearts with our 'yes.' The fuller that 'yes' is, the fuller is the gift of His presence."