Livingstone, 21 December, 2019 / 1:30 am (ACI Africa).
At a pre-Christmas youth camp in Zambia’s Livingstone diocese where young people from various parishes converged for a weeklong meeting focusing on Pope Francis’ Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation “to young people and the entire people of God” Christus Vivit (Christ is alive), the message of hope and being alive in Christ was emphasized in line with the Holy Father’s March 2019 document.
“The message of Christus Vivit is a message of hope to young people who are facing a lot of challenges and see (themselves) differently from how God sees them,” the youth Chaplain of Zambia’s Livingstone diocese, Fr. Bruno Hamukali told ACI Africa in an interview Friday, December 20.
“The message brings to young people how much God loves them and gives life to them so that they may be alive too: "Christ is alive and he wants you to be alive", Fr. Hamukali said and added, “Jesus conquered death and he is alive and wants young people to be alive.”
Convened under the theme “He walked with them,” the youth camp held in Sioma, a town in the Western province of Zambia, drew its inspiration from “the Gospel of Luke 24:15 where Jesus accompanies two disciples who have lost hope in their lives and need someone to uplift their hopeless situation,” the Zambian cleric said.
“This is also in response to the Pope's call to the Church to accompany the young people in their journey of life as Christ Jesus did as it is a Year of "Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment," he added.
