O Lord Jesus Christ, keep these young people in your love. Let them hear your voice and believe what you say,
for you alone have the words of life.
Teach them how to profess their faith, bestow their love,
and impart their hope to others.
Make them convincing witnesses to your Gospel
in a world so much in need of your saving grace.
Make them the new people of the Beatitudes, that they may be the salt of the earth and the light of the world...
Mary, Mother of the Church, protect and guide these young men and women of the Twenty-first Century.
Keep us all close to your maternal heart. Amen.

-St. John Paul II
17th World Youth Day