LA pilgrims celebrate the ‘unthinkable’ at Jubilee of Youth
Before crossing the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, our group needed one more pep talk.
“The very fact that this door is open is good news,” said the priest to the crowd of youth from Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Georgia that had coalesced beneath the brooding sculpture of St. Paul that keeps watch over St. Peter’s Square.
“Often in our lives, it seems that there are closed doors everywhere. In this world, our enemy, the devil, tells us that in front of several situations, there is no way back.”