Through the site www.pope2you.net, you can now send Christmas greetings to Pope Benedict XVI. This initiative is the work of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.

With a custom-built service in 5 languages, users from around the world can also exchange greetings with each other, using the Pope's words and beautiful photographs of the official Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, through Facebook and through the web portal Pope2You.

But the most important and original element will be the option of sending their own personal greetings to the Holy Father, whether in text form or in photographs. Some of the most meaningful messages will then be chosen for publication on the website.

"So once again we have made the opportunity available to young people to send each other postcards with a Christmas image of the Pope, and each card contains a verse, a sentence taken from a particularly powerful message of the Pope for Christmas . We hope that this time the young people know how to use it. Why? So that they may become spokesmen, become witnesses, proclaimers of the values that are fundamental for us in venturing into this Mystery of Love. The Mystery of a God who became man for love of man."

Through Pope2You, which in less than 8 months has had over 7 million hits, you can even share greetings sent by the Pope with your friends on Facebook.

Pope2You - born in May of 2009 - is the official portal of the Vatican that allows users to have contact and begin a friendship with the Holy Father. Again this year, Pope2You will become a real and official "channel of communication" between the Pope and "his" young people.

"This great task is entrusted to young people: to become 'deacons', to be proclaimers of the Word in this digital culture that little by little is affecting everyone."

From H2O News.