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After a transformative journey exploring Europe’s most sacred places and seeing the Pope in Lisbon, our World Youth Day (WYD) pilgrims gathered to reconnect and share stories, returning to where it all began a year ago...
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Year 12 student Madeline Wade from St Columba's Catholic College, Springwood, had the opportunity of a lifetime when she went to World Youth Day in Lisbon in 2023. But coming down from the ‘spiritual mountain top’ straight into the busyness of life and school meant she didn’t have time...
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The Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life is promoting a social media campaign aimed at helping people rediscover the relevance of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation for Young People and keeping the experience of World Youth Day alive....
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As the six-month mark approaches since coming down from the ‘mountain-top’, we ask five young people how they are living the joy they witnessed at World Youth Day in the families, schools, workplaces and parishes....
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Western Sydney school teachers Isabella Plust and Andrew Valenti have become engaged in Paris during the Diocese of Parramatta pilgrimage to World Youth Day. At the Eiffel Tower in front of 170 pilgrims and passing Parisians, Andrew proposed to Isabella underneath the sparkling lights of the city of love’s...
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Pope Francis' message for the 38th World Youth Day
“Rejoicing in Hope” (Rom 12:12)
26 November 2023...
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In a letter ahead of the 38th diocesan World Youth Day, Pope Francis describes youth as a time of “hopes and dreams”, and asks how this optimism can be sustained in an increasingly crisis-ridden world....
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Pope Francis sends a video message to young people who took part in World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal, and invites them to pass on their experience as Christian missionaries....
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The energy was high, and the joy was overflowing as World Youth Day pilgrims from the Diocese of Parramatta recommitted to creating community.
Gathering on Friday 15 September, the group of over 100 students, teachers and young adult pilgrims celebrated the extraordinary experience of the global Church at World Youth...