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My own interaction with young people has been shaped by WYD. Learning from the examples of the popes, I try to make myself open and responsive to the young, confident that sincerity and honesty and true love of Christ and His Church become their own message, become the most important message we bishops can share. They will know it if they see it in us.

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Bishop William Murphy (Rockville Centre)

(Source: usccbmedia.blogspot.com, via paxvobis)

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A vocation is the call God has for each of us to make something of our lives. God calls each one of us without exception. A pilgrimage is a great time to reflect on what the Lord calls us to. To ask what is pleasing to him. Is it to be a father, a mother, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer? Is it to be a priest or a sister, or a deacon? Most of us want to do what we want to do. But what we should want to do is what God wants us to do.

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Archbishop Charles Chaput (Philadelphia-designate)

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The youth from the United States bring a unique gift to WYD. American culture is both feared and desired all over the world. There are questions about how one’s own faith survives the powerful technological and cultural tsunami that is American life. These young people will be a hopeful testimony of faithful and joyful disciples of Jesus who in the midst of an adversarial social environment still possess a faith that thrives on the good news of Jesus.

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Bishop Jaime Soto (Sacramento)

(Source: usccbmedia.blogspot.com, via paxvobis)

The indulgence for WYD! »

(Source: fathershane)

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The Church has a preferential option for youth.

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Cardinal Francis George (Chicago)

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king3ric:

Madrid, Plaza Cibeles - Closed to half a million young people, according to the WYD Organization, attended the inaugural mass for the opening ceremony of the 26th WYD Madrid 2011, which was chaired by the cardinal Archbishop of Madrid, Antonio María Rouco Varela.

(via sermoveritas)

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It was not by accident that the Church promoted the universities, for Christian faith speaks to us of Christ as the Word through whom all things were made (cf. Jn 1:3) and of men and women as made in the image and likeness of God. The Gospel message perceives a rationality inherent in creation and considers man as a creature participating in, and capable of attaining to, an understanding of this rationality. The University thus embodies an ideal which must not be attenuated or compromised, whether by ideologies closed to reasoned dialogue or by truckling to a purely utilitarian and economic conception which would view man solely as a consumer.

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Pope Benedict to university professors (minutes ago in Madrid)

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iam3rd:

Morning Catechesis

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Madrid will rock this week as nearly a million young people descend upon it for World Youth Day 2011. The youth will bring their brand of music and Christian rock and they will sing, dance, pray, sway giving new life to the old Catholic wineskins of Catholic Spain.

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Bishop Robert Lynch (St. Petersburg)

(Source: blogs.dosp.org, via becket)

fathershane:

Young people who want to participate in the Sacrament of Reconciliation at World Youth Day will be able to do so in ultra-modern portable confessionals that resemble a sailing ship and will sport the pope’s logo. […]

The Sacrament of Reconciliation will be made available in 20 languages throughout the festivities, from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on every day except Saturday when confessions will be heard from 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon.

A small army of 2,000 priests will be manning the confessionals throughout the event.

Very cool. Read the rest…

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