The better you know...

"It is only when a young man has had a personal experience of Christ that he can truly understand the Lord’s will and consequently his own vocation.

"The better you know Jesus the more his mystery attracts you. The more you discover him, the more you are moved to seek him. This is a movement of the spirit which lasts throughout life..."

from an address August 19 by Pope Benedict XVI to seminarians at World Youth Day

(Photograph of priests and seminarians reacting to Pope Benedict's election 4 months before.)