… TO THE GOD WHO CHEERS MY YOUTH

A youth that never fades, because the ministerial priesthood of Christ which has marked and ontologically transformed us makes it eternal.

— The Briefs of the Fathers of The Isle of Patmos —

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Remaining prisoners of memories of the past is always dangerous. Living backwards is often the condition of those who are unable to live in the present. Those who live life from the perspective of faith know that they are not only on a journey towards the future, but projected towards eternity.

It may happen that you find it in an almost forgotten box some object or some image that marked a season of one's life. When this photograph of mine reemerged from the past I did not feel that nostalgia that belongs to what is lost and does not return, but rather tenderness and gratitude. So much so that the phrase contained in the opening verse of the Psalm came to mind 42 (43), with which the priest, at the foot of the altar, began the Holy Mass in the rite preceding the liturgical reform of the Holy Pontiff Paul VI:

«Introibo altar Gods, to God who makes my youth happy» (I will approach the altar of God, to God who cheers my youth").

I thank God, together with the Brothers of this happy Island of Patmos of ours, for giving us a youth that never fades. Not that of the body, that time inevitably transforms, but that contained in the ministerial priesthood of Christ which has marked and ontologically transformed us. A youth that no passage of years can consume, because it has its roots in the very eternity of God. Because of this, every time we approach the altar of the Lord, we can keep repeating within ourselves, with the same truth and with the same joy, the words of the Psalmist: Introibo altar Gods, to God who makes my youth happy.

From the island of Patmos, 19 June 2026

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