If Christ is presented to young people as he really is, they experience him as an answer that is convincing and they can accept his message, even when it is demanding and bears the mark of the Cross. For this reason and in response to their enthusiasm, I do not hesitate to ask them to make a radical choice of faith and life, and present them with a stupendous task: to become "morning watchmen" (cf. Is 21:11-12) at the dawn of the new millennium.
Saint John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte #9