We need to recover another forgotten truth about Mary the Mother of Jesus… her relationship to young people.

Pope Francis wrote… “(Youth) have asked us in a thousand ways to walk alongside them — not behind them or ahead of them, but at their side.”

Given the stake we all have in our future as Church and Vincentian Family, this is the first of a series of posts devoted to the three week long Synod of Bishops focused on taking young people seriously, with their culture, their needs, their resources, and their weaknesses.