They dance in traditional costumes. The Pope looks at them and smiles with satisfaction. The children of the Caritas Technical Secondary School run by the Brothers of the Christian Schools and directed by the Sisters of Charity of Jesus. The little ones of Street Ministry (which collects street children) and Callan Services (which takes care of disabled children) ask the Pope why they have to suffer like this, with their handicaps, and are not like the others and why they have been abandoned and have experienced poverty. Not only that, they ask the Pontiff how they can, with their limitations, make the world more beautiful.
Pope Francis does not shy away from dialogue. He encourages them to remember that “none of us is like the others, we are all unique before God,” and to hope. Because, he emphasizes, “there is hope for everyone. Each of us in the world has a mission that no one else can carry out and, even if it involves hard work, it gives a sea of joy, in a different way for each person.” And even if “we all have our limits, if there are things we do better and others we struggle with, it is not this that determines our happiness. But it is the love we put into whatever they do. This is the most beautiful, most important thing in our life, in any condition and for any person, even for the Pope. Our joy depends on love. And peace and joy are for everyone.”
Furthermore, everyone is called to make the world happier and this can be done by “learning to love God and others with all our heart and trying to learn, even at school, everything we can to do it in the best way, studying and making the most of every opportunity that is offered to us to grow. We must concentrate all our strength on the goal which is the love of Jesus and, in Him, for all the brothers and sisters we meet on our path, and then fill everything and everyone with our affection”. And therefore, he concludes, “None of us is a burden, we are all beautiful gifts from God, a treasure for ourselves and for others”.