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3 – St John Paul II – Letter to Children December 13, 1994
The Letter to Children by Pope John Paul II, dated December 13, 1994, is the first papal document addressed exclusively to children.
Dear children,
(…) How important children are in the eyes of Jesus! We could even say that the Gospel is full of the truth about children. The whole of the Gospel could actually be read as the “Gospel of children”.
What does it mean that “unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven”? Is not Jesus pointing to children as models even for grown-ups? In children there is something that must never be missing in people who want to enter the kingdom of heaven. (…) For how many children in the history of the Church has the Eucharist been a source of spiritual strength, sometimes even heroic strength! (…) It is absolutely true: Jesus and his Mother often choose children and give them important tasks for the life of the Church and of humanity. (…) He eagerly awaits their prayers. What enormous power the prayer of children has! This becomes a model for grown-ups themselves: praying with simple and complete trust means praying as children pray. And here I come to an important point in this Letter: dear young friends, it is to your prayers that I want to entrust the problems of your own families and of all the families in the world. And not only this: I also have other intentions to ask you to pray for. The Pope counts very much on your prayers. We must pray together and pray hard, that humanity, made up of billions of human beings, may become more and more the family of God and able to live in peace. (…) I decided to ask you, dear boys and girls, to take upon yourselves the duty of praying for peace. You know this well: love and harmony build peace, hatred and violence destroy it. You instinctively turn away from hatred and are attracted by love: for this reason the Pope is certain that you will not refuse his request, but that you will join in his prayer for peace in the world with the same enthusiasm with which you pray for peace and harmony in your own families…
