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Cardinal tells teens Jesus wants them 'to be branches of the vine'
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CNS) -- Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston reminded thousands of teens who packed a Kansas City arena that Jesus is the vine and they are the branches and that in the Eucharist they become one with him. "Where does Jesus live?" he asked the teens. "He doesn't answer to an address on San Jacinto Drive in Houston. Jesus abides with his Abba, his daddy, his Father. There are many houses in his home, and he wants all of you, and me, to be branches of the vine." The cardinal and his director of youth ministry, Brian Johnson, delivered the morning keynote address Nov. 20 at the first general session of the 2009 National Catholic Youth Conference in the Sprint Center. "It's not enough to come to this weekend and act crazy and go 'Wooooooooooo!'" said Johnson. "We need to be the hands of Christ in our world." The Nov. 19-21 conference, which had as its theme "Christ Reigns," drew delegates from New York and Los Angeles, La Crosse, Wis., and Galveston-Houston, and points in between, and from several foreign lands.
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