“Dare to dream,” Pope Francis has encouraged Argentinians.
Addressing the nation’s people and authorities, he expressed his hope “that this celebration will make us stronger in the path taken by our ancestors two hundred years ago.”
Francis also didn’t shy away from urging them to “not to sell the Motherland” and to resist “all forms of colonization”.
The Holy Father also acknowledged those suffering in the South American nation, especially the poor, sick, lonely, unemployed, incarcerated, and those who are victims of abuses, such as trafficking and exploitation.
Looking ahead to a better future, he highlighted, “I would like to ask the elderly, who have a good memory of history, to look past this throwaway culture that has been forced upon us and dare to dream. We need their dreams, they are a fount of inspiration.”
“I ask young people,” he said, “not to live a retired life in a bureaucratic quietism they are encouraged into by many opportunities that lack excitement and heroism.”
Pope Francis concluded reminding his nation’s people to never stop dreaming.
