Pope to Pontifical Academics: 'speak to the hearts of
young people'
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| Rome's Palazzo della Cancelleria: the venue for a number of Vatican events.- OSS_ROM |
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Tuesday
greeted Vatican academics and urged them to speak to the hearts of young people
while passing on the knowledge and the wisdom of the Fathers.
The Pope's words came in a message addressing members of
the Pontifical Academies as they held their 22nd
Public Session on the theme: “In Interiore homine”.
t’s an event that takes place every year in Rome’s Palazzo
della Cancelleria. The participants’ works are introduced by Cardinal
Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture and of the
Coordination Council of the Pontifical Academies, and prizes are awarded in
different categories.
Just before awarding this year’s prizes, Cardinal Secretary
of State Pietro Parolin read a message sent by Pope Francis in which he
expressed his hope that the recognitions represent an encouragement to reflect
upon and keep alive the concept of the absolute centrality of mankind in the
Christian and human experience as expressed by classical Latin and Christian
authors.
The Pope welcomed the new entry in the group of the
Pontifical Academy Latinitas which was instituted by Pope Benedict in 2012 with
the task of “supporting the commitment for a greater awareness and more
competent use of Latin, in the ecclesial area and in wider culture”.
He recalled the Fathers of the Church and the Latin writers
of the first Christian millennium focusing in particular on the figure and on
the role of St. Augustin whom, he said, “taking cue from his personal
experience as witnessed in his ‘Confessions’, offers us unforgettable pages” of
wisdom.
Quoting from St. Augustin’s “De vera religione” and from his
“Tractates" on the Gospel of John Pope Francis reflected on the importance
and on the significance of knowing oneself, a concept which, he said, is
central also to many other classical writers and philosophers and pointed out
that it is an essential theme for contemporary man as well.
“Dear Friends, he said, like Saint Augustin I would like to
appeal to you Academics and especially to those of you who have the
responsibility of teaching and transmitting the wisdom of the Fathers that is
to be found in the texts of Latin culture: speak to the hearts of young people,
safeguard the treasure of the incredible patrimony of the Latin tradition in
order to educate them in the journey of life and accompany them on paths that
are rich in hope and in trust, drawing from the experience and the wisdom of
those who have had the joy and the courage ‘look within’ in order to follow
their own identities and vocations.”
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