![]() | WYD 2008 - The vigil with the youth The vigil with the youth |
![]() | WYD 2008 - World Youth Day: One of the best inventions Father Thomas Rosica, director of the television network Salt and Light, and organizer of World Youth Day in Toronto, speaks to us from Sydney on the secret of the success of these days. "World Youth Day is one of the greatest inventions of the Church for the new evangelization, and it was the genius of Pope John Paul II to give these very important moments to the whole Church and to the world because it's a chance for all of us, those of us who are young, and those that are not so young to really celebrate our faith, to be public about it and to realize that we're not alone. So the genius of bringing young people together from around the world, to really celebrate our Catholic-Christian identity is a wonderful experience. It's a festival, it's a moment of joy, it's a moment of solidarity, and it's a moment that creates Catholic community, it's networking at its best, so what's going on in Australia these days is extremely wonderful." Fr. Rosica makes clear that it is not the number of people in attendance that makes World Youth Day a success. "These events were never about numbers, from the beginning. Perhaps we make mistakes if we try to compare events to Rome, the Jubilee, or to Manila, or to Cologne, because in fact the greater the numbers, the more difficult it is for the message to pass, to go through. This World Youth Day is a very good number of people, it's the whole world that's represented, it's a moment of faith, of growth, of teaching, of celebrating, and of being together, so we should be very careful." |
![]() | World Youth Day Sydney Harbour Bridge Pilgrimage Walk July 19 2008, Australia Pilgrims walking across the Sydney Harbour Bridge enroute to Randwick on July 19 2008 during World Youth Day in Australia. |
![]() | WYD 2008 - Pope announce next WYD 2011 in Madrid WYD 2008 - People at Cathedral of La Almudena waiting for the Pope's announce of next WYD 2011 in Madrid |
![]() | World Youth Day 2008 Opening Mass, Boat-a-Cade, Papal Motorcade, & Final Mass Clips 1. Opening Mass celebrated by: Cardinal George Pell (Archbishop of Sydney) 2. Final Mass celebrated by: Pope Benedict XVI |
![]() | WYD 2008 - Sydney at Night Sydney at Night |
![]() | WYD 2008 - Polish Cruise in Sydney Harbour In Australia, [pilgrims] didn't just stick to traveling to Randwick on the street, they were able to catch a variety of forms of transport, offered only by the city of Sydney. |
![]() | World Youth Day 2008 - Sydney Australia World Youth Day 2008 - Sydney Australia |
![]() | World Youth Day's Way of the Cross seen by 500 million on TV More than 270,000 people were present at World Youth Day's Way of the Cross, according to the event's organizers. 500 million people, however, followed it on live TV. After the Pope's prayer in St. Mary's Cathedral, the 13 stations of the Way of the Cross began, depicting the Last Supper in a way that evoked the time of Jesus. An aborigine played the part of Simon the Cyrene and took the cross on his shoulders. At the ninth station, when Jesus is stripped of his garments, a young man and woman sang "Amazing Grace," an American song that was commonly used during the slave era. At sunset, the crucifixion was re-enacted. While the apostles carried away Jesus' body in the final station, the event ended with an Irish religious song sung under the cross. |
![]() | World Youth Day 2008 - Sydney Free SUCCESS downloads http://www.keystosuccessclub.com/real-life-experiences The World Youth Day 2008 Sydney was a massive event. We check out what all the fuss |
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