Posted on 11/01/2025 10:28:54 PM PDT by Cronos
“Do not look to shooting stars, on which fragile wishes are entrusted. Look higher still — toward Jesus Christ, the Sun of righteousness, who will guide you along the paths of life.”
In an address to young people gathered at the Vatican on October 30, 2025, Pope Leo XIV delivered a stirring call to students worldwide: “Do not settle for appearances or fads; dream of more; long for something greater.”
The meeting, part of the Jubilee of the World of Education, was filled with joy, laughter, and reflection.
The Pope combined warmth, wisdom, and wonder in his speech — inviting students to see education not just as a means of success, but as a path to holiness, truth, and peace.
He began by recalling newly canonized St. Pier Giorgio Frassati, whose motto “To the heights” became the theme of the day. Pope Leo urged young people to live fully and courageously, like Frassati, to reject the shallowness of modern distractions, and to “light the beacon of hope in the dark hours of history.”
Turning to the digital world, he challenged students: “Do not let the algorithm write your story! Be authors yourselves.” Citing St. Carlo Acutis as a model, the Pope called young people to “humanize the digital,” transforming the internet into a space of creativity and fraternity.
Concluding, Pope Leo lifted everyone’s gaze beyond the night sky: “Do not look to shooting stars, on which fragile wishes are entrusted. Look higher still — toward Jesus Christ, the Sun of righteousness, who will guide you along the paths of life.”
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Pope Kumbaya.
With all due respect, with some of the threads here about Catechism that I read, I think this is good news coming from this Pope.
Concluding, Pope Leo lifted everyone’s gaze beyond the night sky: “Do not look to shooting stars, on which fragile wishes are entrusted. Look higher still — toward Jesus Christ, the Sun of righteousness, who will guide you along the paths of life.” I might have said Son, Padre, but that’s me.
Likely he’s referring to Malachi 4:2......
https://biblehub.com/malachi/4-2.htm
New Revised Standard Version (A Catholic version of the Bible)
Malachi 4:2 “But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.”
Is that translation or a typo error?
And worship Global Warming.
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