February 12

For parents: "Vast regions of the world are covered by spiritual deserts. There you will find young people marked by human abandonment, the result of broken relationships which affect them to their very depths. Even when they are thirsting for a spiritual life, many of the young are afflicted by doubt. They are unable to place their confidence in God, to believe, since they have not found confidence in those to whom life had entrusted them. Separations have wounded the innocence of their childhood or adolescence. The consequences are scepticism and discouragement. What's the use of living? Does life still have any meaning?