Week Of March 31

"Dear young people, you have an important part in the feast of faith! (Palm Sunday) You bring us the joy of faith and you tell us that we must live the faith with a young heart, always, a young heart even at 70 or 80! Jesus has reawakened many hopes of the heart, above all in the humble people, the simple, poor, forgotten, those who do not count in the eyes of the world. He understood human misery, he manifested the face of God’s mercy and deigned to heal the body and soul....This is the first word that I want to say to you: joy! Never be sad men and women: a Christian can never be! Never give in to discouragement! Ours is not a joy that arises from possessing many things, rather it comes from having met a Person: Jesus, who is among us; it comes from knowing that with him we are never alone, even in difficult moments, even when the journey of life collides with problems and obstacles that seem insurmountable, and there are many! And it is in this moment that the enemy comes, the devil comes, many times disguised as an angel, and he speaks to us deceitfully. Do not listen to him! We follow Jesus! We accompany, we follow Jesus, but above all we know that he accompanies us and he carries us: here is where our joy lies, the hope that we, in this world of ours, must have. Do not let your hope be stolen! The hope that Jesus gives us."
~Pope Francis

http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/pope-francis-palm-sunday-homily