Can you hear me better now?
With the Father
New Challenges
New Opportunities
Hi Lucas, can you hear me? Hello Jotham!
UNIV 2021 Virtual Get-together with the Father
I’m going to turn on the Father’s camera.
Hi Father!
We miss you Father!
I am grateful to all of you for
this opportunity to be with you.
As you can see, UNIV brings together
people from all over the world.
It makes me very happy
to be able to spend time with you, even though we can’t be with
one another face-to-face.
This can also help us to continue praying that this pandemic will end
as soon as possible,
and also to pray for so many people who are suffering.
Father! This is from Nigeria
Hi Father!
I speak Portuguese, but I’ll try to speak in Spanish.
I am very happy to be here in this get-together.
Hi Father,
about twenty of us are in a workshop here...
Hello,
My name is Mathieu.
I am from Boston, Massachusetts
Hello, Father.
I would like to do more apostolate with my friends.
I’ll tell you
something we learned from Saint Josemaria.
The most important apostolate is based on friendship.
Father, could you give us some advice on how to find the right words
to defend our beliefs and teach them to others?
What you have to do is to deepen your doctrinal formation,
with deep convictions that are firmly grounded.
For this you need to study, to ask for advice...
To learn how to explain
the truth clearly.
We have to confront errors with wisdom, knowledge,
with patience, with refinement...
And always with charity.
During this health crisis that we are going through everywhere,
and above all during this time of confinement
in all our homes,
I realized how lonely many people feel, how alone they are.
By praying for our friends,
praying for the people we know who are far from us.
This is truly being close to them because,
by uniting ourselves through prayer to our Lord, our Lord is present with them too,
and we can transmit to them, often without seeing them or hearing them,
our joy and our security.
And perhaps without our realizing it,
we can help them to feel less alone.
And then we have so many means of communication today.
This one that we are now using...
Telephone connections, video-conferences...
Thank you Father.
Do you want to tell us some final words?
That you pray a lot for the Pope.
You can easily imagine the great weight he is carrying,
the great difficulties the Church and the whole world are going through,
because the Church is for the whole world.
The Pope is asking a lot of us!
He is asking that we pray a lot for him, for his intentions.
It makes me very happy to see you.
Thanks very much Father!