Share on twitter Twitter. Share on pinterest Pinterest. Share on linkedin LinkedIn. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Comment. Enter your name or username to comment. Enter your email address to comment. Enter your website URL optional. Related Posts. Celebrate St. Verso Hosts World Youth Day Webinar Series Join us for a free webinar series designed for group leaders at any stage of the discernment process.
Send a Message P. The Pope turned to Fr. Rosica at one point and asked him, « What did you learn from WYD? I became Catholic through the whole WYD experience. Because Catholic means a universal heart and a universal vision. Then, the Pope took Fr. You learned the most important lesson. Rosica then turned the tables on the Pope, who had created WYD, and asked « Why did you start this whole thing?
The Pope smiled warmly and said, « I started it because I saw them so much alone. Bishop James D. He told us to go out into the streets and proclaim the Gospel. He told us to defend life. He told us to become saints. He called us to the New Evangelization. Understanding that young people are on a journey, the act of going on pilgrimage is an essential component to the World Youth Day experience.
From ancient times, people of faith have made great journeys — from Abraham and Moses to the Early Christians, who traveled "to the ends of the earth" cf. Acts to spread the Gospel. Through the centuries, pilgrims have made journeys to Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela, Rome, and many other great sites to find God through the resting places of the saints. Youth and young adults today continue on that same trajectory — and through World Youth Day, seek God through the experience of a truly Universal Church, in solidarity with the Holy Father and millions of young people.
World Youth Day, whether celebrated locally or internationally, is a pilgrimage reflecting the road that young people continue to travel throughout their whole lives. In the Twenty-First Century, technology ensures that young people are always in contact with one another. World Youth Day goes beyond "being in contact" and gives youth and young adults a personal encounter with the international Catholic community they cannot get through their phones or computers — all in service to the ultimate encounter with God.
Like the disciples on Mount Tabor, World Youth Day participants have a great opportunity to experience a transformative event — and to use that moment of grace to equip themselves for the great work that awaits them in the everyday valleys of life.
Each time I have had the privilege of being present at the Vigil and Closing Mass of World Youth Day Sydney, Madrid, and Rio , when millions of young Catholics are gathered together at the same time, I think of the scene in the Book of Revelation see Chapter 19 in which a great multitude stands before the throne of the Lamb, singing praises forever and ever.
Ready to experience World Youth Day for yourself? You can start planning your WYD pilgrimage today! World Youth Day WYD is a worldwide encounter with the Pope which is typically celebrated every three years in a different country.
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The happenstance observer would witness not angst and malice, but smiles and joy, singing and dancing young people, culture upon culture and nation upon nation, proudly holding their flags high or wearing them , greeting one another in peace, trading their tokens, humbly realizing how small they are in a world of people, and strengthened to witness so many who share their convictions. How did it all begin? Some might cringe at the thought of those words, wondering what delinquency is in store, but to witness this gathering would end those fears.
The following year brought about a new tradition when the second event and first international WYD took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Every Palm Sunday has since been designated as a World Youth Day, alternately celebrated at the diocesan and international levels.
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