Pope Francis encouraged “the Gospel of Jesus Christ”, in a message to young university students linked to Opus Dei and who participate from April 12 to 20 in the International Congress Univ 2025, within the framework of Holy Week in Rome.
“The UNIV International Congress that they are held in Rome brings them together these days in the celebration of a double jubilee event: the Holy Year 2025 and the Centenary of Priestly Planning of St. Josemaría Escrivá,” writes the Holy Father in the letter published today in the Site web del work of.
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“How many reasons to thank God and continue walking enthusiasts in faith, diligent in charity and persevering in hope!”, The pontiff continues, continues,
Then quoting the document with which he summoned the Jubileo de la Esperanza 2025, Pope Francis said he accompanies the young people with his “prayer, asking the Lord that this pilgrimage time and fraternal encounter drives them to bring everyone the gospel of Jesus Christ, dead and resurrectedas the announcement of the hope that promises, leads to glory and, based on love, does not disappoint. ”
“May Jesus bless you and the Holy Virgin take care of them. And I ask you, please, do not forget to pray for me,” he concludes.
What is the UNIV 2025?
UNIV is an international meeting of young university students “who seek UNIV Inspire.
The UNIV was born in 1968, promoted by San Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei, who “dreamed with an international meeting of young university students from the five continents to ask great questions” to help improve the world.
Since then, every year about 1,000 young people live this experience, in the arch of Holy Week in Rome, where they can “listen to experts and join forums for problem solving, as well as attend the ceremonies of the Pascual Triduum” and participate in meetings with the prelate of Opus Dei, Mons. Fernando Ocáriz.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.