17 THE JOY OF THE GOSPEL POPE BENEDICT XVI reigned as pope from 2005 until 2013. of us, and especially to the young generations who are entering the world of faith. In other words: Jesus said he was the Way that leads to the Father, as well as the Truth and the Life. It is therefore indispensable—and this is the task entrusted to Christian families, priests, catechists, and educators, to young people themselves among their peers and to our parishes, associations, and movements, and lastly to the entire diocesan community—that the new generations experience the Church as a company of friends who are truly dependable and close in all life’s moments and circumstances, whether joyful and gratifying or arduous and obscure; as a company that will never fail us, not even in death, for it carries within it the promise of eternity.
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