代表五大洲及所有天主教主教團的300位青年，經過六整天的努力，於3月25日向教宗方濟各呈上的最終版本 ─ 他們一星期工作的摘要（也有賴2018年主教會議 ─ 青年、信德與聖召辨明逾15,000 名網上參與者的協助，文件可於Boscolink下載）。教宗方濟各在羅馬花了整整半天，親自聆聽普世青年講述他們的需要，兩場訪問已上載於慈幼通訊社頻道（捷克人的訪問以英語進行；烏拉圭人的訪問則以西班牙語進行）。
教宗方濟各於陽光普照的梵蒂岡聖伯多祿廣場，主持聖枝主日禮儀，在場的有眾多主教及司鐸，以及數千青年，作為主教會議前聚會的結束。教宗方濟各提醒大家，聖枝主日也是第33屆教區普世青年日的日子，並祈求聖母陪伴這新一代，邁向十月的主教會議，以及明年一月於巴拿馬舉行的世界青年日。
主教會議前青年聚會文件的最終版本，為五大洲的青年人20個語言小組（包括15,000名網上成員及300名離線成員）的分享摘要：長達12頁(A4)的文件，為真正青年心聲的整合，分為下列各點：
- 現今青年的挑戰與機遇
- 與其他人的關係
- 青年與未來
- 與科技的關係
- 尋找生命意義
- 青年與耶穌
- 信仰與教會
- 生命的聖召意識
- 聖召分辨
- 青年與陪同
- 教會的態度
- 青年領袖
- 喜愛的地方──「我們願意教會在不同地方與我們相遇」
- 需強化的創新
- 所需要的工具：建議的媒體、義工經驗、朝拜、默想及默觀、見證及主教會議的聆聽過程。
的確，2018年主教會議是我們慈幼會士的黃金機會，去鑑賞我們作為青年僕役的神恩，並以聆聽作為開端，使這神恩達致圓滿。
Fruits of the Pre-Synodal youth encounter with the young – ‘Preferred places the young people like to meet the Church’
After six full days of intense work of 300 young people who rapresented all five continents and all Catholic bishops confrerences (with help of other 15.000 online participants of the Synod 2018 about Youth – Faith – Vocation Discernment, on 25th of March, the youth offered to Pope Francis the final document – summary of their one week work (download from Boscolink possible). This global listening to the young people in Rome was attended for one half a day personally by Pope Francis, two interview are available also on the ANS Youtube channel (Czech interview in English and Uruguay interview in Spanish).
The Palm Sunday Eucharist celebrated in the sunny Vatican Plaza of St. Peter by Pope Francis, many bishops, priest and attended by thousands of young people was also conclusion of the Pre-synodal meeting. Pope Francis recalled that Palm Sunday is also Diocesan World Youth Day (33rd) and prayed that the Mother of God will accompany this new generation towards the October Synod and World Youth Day, in Panama next January 2019.
Final Document of the Pre-Synodal Meeting of the Young People is a collation of sharing done in 20 linguistic groups (15000 online and 300 off-line) of the young people from all five continents: 12 (A4) pages document is a honest synthesis of the young people voices grouped around:
1. Challenges and Opportunities of the young today
2. Relationship with other people
3. Youth people and the future
4. Relationship with Technology
5. Search for Meaning in Life
6. Young People and Jesus
7. Faith and the Church
8. Vocational sense of Life
9. Vocation discernment
10. Young People and accompaniment
11. The manner of the Church
12. Young Leaders
13. Preferred places – ‘We would like the Church to meet us in the various places’
14. The initiatives to be reinforced
15. Instruments to be used: suggested multimedia, volunteer experience, adoration, meditation and contemplation, testimony and synod process of listening.
Indeed the 2018 Synod of Bishops offers to us Salesians a golden opportunity to appreciate and make fruitful our charism as servants of the young that starts with listening.