Sentences with phrase «world youth day»

years), and was the host of World Youth Day 2008th year.

This opportunity — to correct past mistakes, to build upon prior success, and to continue to develop already - formed relationships with her students — is one that give flesh to the words Maura heard Pope Francis utter at World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland, this summer — words about «the gentle and unassuming power of mercy.»

Each World Youth Day is held in a different global location and attended by young people from around the world, including many people from Westchester County.

Transferred to Sydney in 2001, Pell set about reinvigorating his new archdiocese by seeking, and getting, World Youth Day 2008.

Yet this instinctive suspicion seems to underlie many of the pope's most characteristic actions: from the decision to translocate from the Apostolic Palace to Santa Marta, through his urging the youth at World Youth Day in Brazil to go forth and shake things up (hace lio), to the support of diverse (and incompatible) pastoral «processes» in the aftermath of Amoris Laetitia.

Catechism of the Catholic Church succeeded through the heroic work of then - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and against the advice of many Bishops; World Youth Day flourished in the face of opposition from official diocesan youth - work bureaucacies.

Eucharistic adoration is today a central feature of major Catholic youth gatherings from World Youth Day to pre-Confirmation retreats, and this in turn has begun to influence attitudes to the Mass, the Tabernacle, genuflecting, being at ease with times of united reverence.

You might, for instance, think of going on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, or to World Youth Day, or Youth 2000, or the Faith Movement.

Today's generation of Catholics is being infuenced by a much more nourishing diet than was available in the 1970s, and takes for granted the good things available: the Catechism of the Catholic Church, World Youth Day, St JPII's Theology of the Body, the New Movements, Veritatis Splendor, Benedict XVI's teaching on the relationship between faith and reason, and his emphasis on truth, beauty and a personal encounter with Christ, to name just a few.

This human - divine cosmic event takes place at every Mass, whether in a school with 500 teenagers pretending to be bored or at World Youth Day with a million pilgrims kneeling in the mud and dust a mile from an altar where the Holy Father has just made Christpresent.

They were all easily identified by their red «World Youth Day» backpacks and could be spotted in the bars, strip clubs, bathouses and massage parlours downtown where I lived.

Pope Francis recently told the enormous crowds who had gathered in Rio for World Youth Day, «You are often disappointed by facts that speak of corruption on the part of people who put their own interests before the common good.

In particular, Walford examines the apparitions of Fatima and the Divine Mercy as essential moments for understanding this papacy and its relation to the Second Coming, but he also draws out from the World Youth Day speeches the significant theme of «Watchmen of the Morning», which appears to have been ever present in his addresses to young people.

Having run a World Youth Day in Canada in 2002 and then founded, set up and led Salt and Light Catholic Television Network in Canada since 2003, I knew something about media and press relations.

This year's successful World Youth Day in Krakow — attended by two - to - three million pilgrims — suggests that.

At diocesan level, the knock on effect of the World Youth Day in Cologne seems to have revived enthusiasm, with new groups and events springing up as a result of people's long - lasting memories.

Below are some words that the Pope intended to deliver to one and a half million young Catholics at the Madrid World Youth Day Vigil.

In his homily on this year's low - key World Youth Day in April, the Pope appealed to his young friends to «love the word of God and love the Church [which] will give you access to a treasure of very great value and will teach you how to appreciate its richness».

To my mind, it's a generous way of inviting people into the Masses, prayers and liturgies during the World Youth Day.

You need to be (a) contrite, (b) trying to follow the events at World Youth Day live and (c) performing these acts with «due devotion.»

In its genesis, purpose, and reputation, the World Meeting of Families, founded in 1994, complements the better - known World Youth Day.

Furthermore the recent World Youth Day provided a great example of many young people well formed in their faith, especially by new communities and movements.

Other major events are the World Youth Day in Brazil, in 2013, and initiatives intended to foster ecumenism and Christian unity.

An excellent book to distribute to members of a Confirmation class, or a youth group preparing for the next World Youth Day: buying a set of these books in bulk would be an excellent parish investment.

I went to World Youth Day in Rio and it was a delight to be with him and all those four million youngsters.

These comments were made on the plane taking him back to Rome after visiting Poland for World Youth Day.

Pope John - Paul's call to the young people of the Church at the 2000 World Youth Day in Rome echoes these words of Christ to Peter.

Of course World Youth Day isn't just a day - or even a night and a day.

But World Youth Day was none of these things - except, possibly, at times, the first, and the noises made were cheerful, enthusiastic, and at times very musical.

During his week in Brazil for World Youth Day, an international Catholic event, mob scenes erupted everywhere Francis went, despite cold temperatures and driving rain for much of the week.

When Pope Francis arrived here Monday for World Youth Day, a weeklong Catholic event held every few years, the massive security effort was temporarily undermined by a traffic jam.

When I am very old, I will be glad and grateful to look back and know that as a middle - aged journalist, I went to World Youth Day 2011.

He was a wonderful teacher and missionary — think of World Youth Day and all those great missionary journeys...»

And, if I may note my own two recent offerings: The revised and expanded Letters to a Young Catholic (Basic Books) is intended for the young from sixteen to (at least) eighty - plus, while City of Saints: A Pilgrimage to John Paul II's Kraków (Image) will, I hope, be welcomed by all attending World Youth Day - 2016, in person or in spirit, in print or in the all - color - photography e-book.

Francis, whose concern for the poor has earned him the nickname the «slum pope» in Latin America, is in Brazil through Sunday for World Youth Day, a weeklong Catholic event.

Because Britain's mainstream mass media - BBC, newspapers - focused mainly on the protesters opposed to the Pope visiting Spain, it was hard to explain to people, once I got home, the reality of what World Youth Day was like.

The World Youth Day is the best gathering for all the young people form all over the church to be united and to increase their faith ~ The visit of His Holiness is the presence of God, I think this person whom protest is a bit too sensitive or he doing this on purpose to make the situation chaos!

Benedict XVI is coming to World Youth Day, a weeklong series of religious events that the Roman Catholic Church organizes internationally every three years, last held in Sydney, Australia.

Madrid (CNN)- Pope Benedict XVI told Catholic youths to not hide their beliefs from their peers during a speech he delivered Thursday in Spain for World Youth Day.

The suspect was arrested on Tuesday at the IFEMA fairgrounds by plainclothes police officers as he was about to receive a backpack and a green shirt worn by volunteers, said the spokesman, Rafa Rubio, the communications director for World Youth Day, told CNN.

«World Youth Day rejects all violence.»

Francis arrived in Rio on Monday for the start of World Youth Day, which, despite its name, is actually a weeklong gathering of Catholic youth from around the world.

Oh so, because pope Ratzy says so, now the priests in Madrid during the pope's visit, on World Youth Day 2011, get this new magical power?

Madrid Archbishop Antonio María Rouco Varela announced the extension of such authority to more priests in a statement on the archdiocese's website, saying the move was made in hopes that «all of the faithful who attend the celebrations of the 26th World Youth Day in Madrid can more easily attain the fruits of divine grace, that the doors to a new life open for them.»

«All the priests that are administering the sacrament of confession during World Youth Day have the general authority to give absolution from the penalty of excommunication for abortion if someone comes to confession... if someone has this need,» Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi told CNN on Thursday, referring to the event that brought Pope Benedict XVI to Madrid on Thursday for a four - day visit.

A spokesman for the Catholic Church in Spain said that the extension of priestly authority around abortion applies only to priests who are in the Madrid archdiocese for World Youth Day festivities.

So let me understand this... you are saying your priests actually have new power from 12:00:00.000 AM to 11:59:59.999 PM on World Youth Day?

Rubio said the suspect, age 24, had completed the process to become a volunteer for World Youth Day and he added that the arresting officers at the volunteer check - in area were so discreet that many in the World Youth Day organization were not aware of what had happened until hours later.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, who traveled last week to Brazil with the pope for World Youth Day, said the massive turnout - estimates ran as high as 3 million - and ecstatic crowds likely gave Francis hope that he would «revive the church on his home continent of Latin America.»

He told World Youth Day participants that he wanted this work «to be a guide» for their lives.