Bl. John Paul II to the United States: The Church Needs You

This excerpt from Camden Yards, Baltimore, Maryland on October 8, 1996. 

"The Church in the United States has sent brave missionary men and women ou to the nations, and not a few o them have borne the ultimate witness to the ancient truth that the blood of martyrs is the seed of Christianity.  In my visits to the Catholic communities around the world I often meet American missionaries.... I wish to make a appeal to young Catholics to consider the missionary vocation. Christ needs many more committed men and women to take tha "spirit" to the four corners of the world."

And in Newark on the 5th of October:

We must pray that young people especially listen to the Lord's call to serve as preists, as eligious sisters and brothers, as missionaries at home and in other lands. YOUNG AMERICANS, THE LORD NEEDS YOU. THE CHURCH NEEDS YOU." (bold mine)

Taken from "Spes Nostra" Volume 4, Number 1 (1996)