Pope Leo XIV has sent a message to the 36th International Youth Festival in Medjugorje.
In a letter read by one of the presiding bishops, Pope Leo said, “I cordially greet you all, with the greeting of the Risen Lord,” and asked pilgrims to "walk together, support each other, and inspire one another."
Encouraging fraternal care, Pope Leo said that “we are created to encounter one another” and “to discover a common goal.” Quoting St Augustine in Enarrationes in Psalmos, he said: “Let us go, let us go! Thus they speak to one another, and, creating a flame for one another, they form a single flame. And this single flame, born from the one who speaks, transmits to the other the flame with which it burns.”
