Communion of saints
Obviously, none of the commitments suggested has been invented by us. They are well-known means of sanctification. But are they as widely used as they are known?
We believe that using those means of sanctification in our capacity of Juventutem members will benefit us better than using them as sheer individuals. Why? As members of a youth network such as Juventutem, we know that throughout the world, there are Catholic youths praying God within His Church like us, for us and with us. We know that they are faced with temptations similar to those we experience when trying to follow Our Blessed Lord and His Holy Church with more generosity. We know that they rely on our own prayer and friendship in order to let God’s grace work through them and bear more abundant fruit. In other words, we experience the “communion of saints” manifest in a framework we have freely chosen.
As baptized young adults, as members of the Mystical Body of Our Lord Jesus Christ, we already partake in the communion of saints. Like various sodalities, third-orders and pious societies in Church history, Juventutem only particularizes the universal circulation of graces for a specific group of souls according to specific means, as inspired by the needs felt in new circumstances.