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A keen nose for reality

Editorial Staff

“Dear boys and girls, you don’t have the experience of adults, but you do have something that we adults have sometimes lost. For example: as we get older, we adults need glasses because we have lost our sight, or sometimes we become a little deaf, we have lost our hearing... Or, many times, the routine of life makes us lose ‘our nose’; you have ‘a keen nose’. Do not lose this, please! You have a keen nose for reality, and that is a great thing. The instinct that John had: as soon as he saw that gentleman there who said: “Cast the net on the right”, his instinct told him: “It is the Lord!”. He was the youngest of the apostles. You have the instinct: do not lose it! The instinct to find the Lord, the instinct for truth. Do not be ashamed of your outbursts of generosity. Throw yourselves into life. “Eh, Father, but I don’t know how to swim, I am afraid of life!”: you have someone to accompany you, look for someone to accompany you. But do not be afraid of life, please! Life is beautiful, life is for living it and for giving it to others,…

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