We spent half a day together with our friends from Student Youth (GS) in Minnesota (it was the last warm Sunday of the season!). At the end of the day, four new Freshman girls (they might have attended a couple of local Schools of Community, but had never participated in a gesture with the entire community) returned home with one of the adults (Johnny), to whom they asked what Student Youth is about. Johnny answered--more or less--that it is a group of friends who look for answers to the ultimate questions of their lives together. Then, two of these girls (at least two, he says!) immediately responded, "Yes, O.K., but they are not only friends. Because we have friends too, but the ones we met today have something that our friends don't have."

It is beautiful to see how much the Mystery prefers us, to the point that He corrects us in this way! I immediately felt accompanied by this witness. This is because one thinks of the Mystery as an afterthought experience, something from hereafter, almost gnostic, while a few fourteen-year-old girls perceived it in an instant, only because of the simplicity of their gaze in front of the totality of the fact.

Sebastian, Minnesota, USA