VISIT OF HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI
TO THE UNITED NATIONS

MESSAGE OF PAUL VI
TO THE STUDENTS OF THE RICE HIGH SCHOOL
IN HARLEM - NEW YORK

Monday, 4 October 1965

To the Students
of Rice high School:

We received your kind invitation, and, during Our mission of World peace to the United Nations, We are very happy to see you and to bless you. You are very dear to Our heart, and We pray for you that God may give you all the graces you need to be good students, loyal companions, obedient children and, later on, exemplary citizens of your great country.

We ask you to pray for Us, for Holy Mother Church, for the Vatican Council, and for peace and justice between all the rates of mankind. In return, We lovingly bless you, your parents and families, your teachers and your friends.