World Youth Day - A History. In the origins of World Youth Day are two important events whose protagonists were, precisely, young people: the Jubilee of 1984 and the International Year of Young People …More
World Youth Day - A History.
In the origins of World Youth Day are two important events whose protagonists were, precisely, young people: the Jubilee of 1984 and the International Year of Young People in 1985.
The response of the youth to the invitation of the Holy Father was extraordinary.
He gave young people the “Cross of the Youth”, the cross of the World Youth Days.
The first World Youth Day after the institution of this ecclesiastical event was celebrated at the diocesan level.
And a year later, on Palm Sunday, it was in Buenos Aires. The first WYD outside of Rome was held in ’87.
More than a million young people. It was the first WYD outside of Rome.
Then it was Santiago de Compostela in ’89. This WYD already had a more definite program, organized into three parts: Catechesis, Prayer Vigil and Eucharist of the youths of the world.
After this came Czestochowa, another shrine.
This time a Marian shrine, a place of very lively pilgrimages.
This WYD has passed into history as the first World Day of encounter between the Youths of the two formerly hostile blocks, because it was the first WYD after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Then the other WYD’s… Denver was a pilgrimage in a modern metropolis, not a sanctuary. A modern metropolis to bring Christ to, where one must give witness to Christ.
Then another World Youth Day, Manila. Manila, in the Philippines’, has passed into the history books as the WYD with greatest number of participants, about four million.
It was the first time that many, many youths, many people met the successor of Saint Peter.
Then in France. The novelty that France introduced, among other things, was the Via Crucis and the visit to the French Dioceses.
And then the great Jubilee of 2000. More than a million young people experienced the Kairos, this sacred time, this special time of the great Jubilee.
Again we are in the modern metropolis.
Cologne passes into history as the World Youth Day of two popes: John Paul II, who looked forward to this WYD, chose Cologne and, so to speak, prepared for this World Youth Day, but it was Pope Benedict XVI who celebrated it.
Pope Benedict has identified totally with this program of evangelization of the youth proposed by John Paul II.
After Cologne came Sydney. Only 20% of the Population were Catholics, but, despite this, the reception was spectacular.
And now we are on the way to Madrid, a journey full of great hope.
In the origins of World Youth Day are two important events whose protagonists were, precisely, young people: the Jubilee of 1984 and the International Year of Young People in 1985.
The response of the youth to the invitation of the Holy Father was extraordinary.
He gave young people the “Cross of the Youth”, the cross of the World Youth Days.
The first World Youth Day after the institution of this ecclesiastical event was celebrated at the diocesan level.
And a year later, on Palm Sunday, it was in Buenos Aires. The first WYD outside of Rome was held in ’87.
More than a million young people. It was the first WYD outside of Rome.
Then it was Santiago de Compostela in ’89. This WYD already had a more definite program, organized into three parts: Catechesis, Prayer Vigil and Eucharist of the youths of the world.
After this came Czestochowa, another shrine.
This time a Marian shrine, a place of very lively pilgrimages.
This WYD has passed into history as the first World Day of encounter between the Youths of the two formerly hostile blocks, because it was the first WYD after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Then the other WYD’s… Denver was a pilgrimage in a modern metropolis, not a sanctuary. A modern metropolis to bring Christ to, where one must give witness to Christ.
Then another World Youth Day, Manila. Manila, in the Philippines’, has passed into the history books as the WYD with greatest number of participants, about four million.
It was the first time that many, many youths, many people met the successor of Saint Peter.
Then in France. The novelty that France introduced, among other things, was the Via Crucis and the visit to the French Dioceses.
And then the great Jubilee of 2000. More than a million young people experienced the Kairos, this sacred time, this special time of the great Jubilee.
Again we are in the modern metropolis.
Cologne passes into history as the World Youth Day of two popes: John Paul II, who looked forward to this WYD, chose Cologne and, so to speak, prepared for this World Youth Day, but it was Pope Benedict XVI who celebrated it.
Pope Benedict has identified totally with this program of evangelization of the youth proposed by John Paul II.
After Cologne came Sydney. Only 20% of the Population were Catholics, but, despite this, the reception was spectacular.
And now we are on the way to Madrid, a journey full of great hope.