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"Generation Y Bears Unusual Burdens"
Mary Ann Glendon on
Today's University Students
What emerges from these data and impressions, it seems to me, is a portrait of a generation that is searching -- a generation of young men and women who want something better for themselves and their future children than what has been handed on to them; a generation that is exploring uncharted territory and finding little guidance from its elders.
Cardinal Danneels Offers Antidote to Depression and Despair
In
Commentary for Launching of Evangelization Agency
There is no therapy like prayer, for those living in a depressing and
desperate society, says Cardinal Godfried Danneels.
Cardinal Danneels
writes: "in every street there is someone who is depressed about our times, and
no day passes without at least one newspaper headline containing discouragingly
bad news," reflecting "war and violence, genocide, unemployment, crime and
terrorism, and great ethical confusion."
"There is a great inner
emptiness, loneliness and dejectedness," and it is young people who are the
first to suffer the effects of this, he adds. "Yet the question still persists:
How can I be happy?"
In their journey, people are looking for "guiding
lights," Cardinal Danneels notes which are generally only "short-term
therapies."
The key to this whole situation is hope, Cardinal Danneels
stresses. There is "only one way to exercise hope": to pray and keep watch, in
"an attitude of expectation."
"Prayer is also patiently suspending
oneself between the past and the future," he says.
Marriage as God's Intensive School of Love
Monsignor
Cormac Burke Gives Tips for a Happy Union
Marriage is one of God's most intensive schools of love, where he wishes to
train most of his pupils.
The first thing to bear in mind is that
marriage cannot give perfect happiness, nor can anything else here on earth. The
purpose of marriage is not to give the spouses such happiness, but to mature
them for it.
Happiness is not possible inside or outside marriage for the person who is determined to get more than he or she is prepared to give.
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