Our local readers are aware that on June 1st 2011 the Archdiocese of Port of Spain began the second phase of the Synod Implementation under the title: “Revitalizing Catholic Culture and Identity”. While we focus on one area, at a time, of the Synod Implementation process, we cannot ignore the other areas of: “New Evangelization” and “Regenerating the Moral and Spiritual Values of our Society”.
Our Synod life and World Youth Day expectations walk hand in hand. Zenit news, quote the Spanish Cardinal Antonio Rouco, who said that this World Youth Day will be the beginning of a deep ‘moral renewal of society’.
The Church expects this World Youth Day event to be of a special missionary nature inspiring a strong apostolic commitment among the young people under the sign of the New Evangelization that Pope Benedict XVI has spoken of so often.
The goal of World Youth Day is to encourage young people to live their lives deeply rooted in Christ, and to live all aspects of their personal, profession and faith lives in Christ. The young people are the ones who will be able to begin the path to a deep moral renewal in society, and in the end, it is this generation that is called to undertake a true social, cultural and political reform.
We have high hopes and deep aspirations for the delegates going from Trinidad and Tobago to Madrid. Without a doubt they will hear the call for this renewal. They will share in the burning desire of others who want to see a new world. They will return with new zeal, more ready than ever, to embrace the Synod call to “New Evangelization”, “Revitalizing Catholic Culture and Identity” and “Regenerating the moral and spiritual values of our society”.
We trust that their deep experience of the Lord, while on pilgrimage, will inspire each one to accept responsibility for a personal commitment to the call to a “New Evangelization”, a “Revitalizing Catholic Culture and Identity” and a “Regenerating the moral and spiritual values of our society”.
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