Subject: VISnews 110628
Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede
From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 120
ENGLISH
TUESDAY, 28 JUNE 2011
SUMMARY:
- Presentation of Twenty-Sixth World Youth Day
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts
- Notice
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PRESENTATION OF TWENTY-SIXTH WORLD YOUTH DAY
VATICAN CITY, 28 JUN 2011 (VIS) - A press conference was held this morning
in the Holy See Press Office to present the twenty-sixth World Youth Day
(WYD), which will be held in the Spanish capital city of Madrid from 16 to
21 August. The conference was presented by Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko,
president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity; Cardinal Antonio Maria
Rouco Varela, archbishop of Madrid; Yago de la Cierva, executive director of
WYD 2011; Elsa Vazquez Maggio, an international volunteer, and Jose Antonio
Martinez Fuentes, secretary general of WYD 2011.
"Each World Youth Day is an extraordinary experience for a Church which is
friend to young people, which shares their problems", said Cardinal Rylko.
"A Church which places herself at the service of the new generations. It is
an experience of Universal Church - unique of its kind - which embraces the
entire planet, of a young Church full of enthusiasm and missionary vigour.
It is an epiphany of the Christian faith which has truly planetary
dimensions. And young people, especially in the old and profoundly
secularised continent of Europe, have particular need of all this".
The cardinal recalled how this is the second occasion that Spain has
"generously welcomed" WYD, and he spoke of the last time the event was held
in that country, at Santiago de Compostela in 1989. It was there, he said,
"that World Youth Day came to be structured as we know it today: three days
of catechesis, a prayer vigil on the Saturday night, then the closing
Eucharistic celebration and the dispatch of young people as missionaries.
Also at Santiago de Compostela, pilgrimage came to be an essential factor of
young people's journey in the footsteps of Peter's Successor.
"Over succeeding years", he added, "each WYD has brought something new to
the programme: the Way of the Cross at Denver, U.S.A., in 1993; preparatory
days spent in dioceses prior to the main event and the 'Festival of Youth'
(a kind of cultural programme) at Paris, France, in 1997; the 'Feast of
Forgiveness' (300 confessionals crowded with young people in the Circus
Maximus) at Rome in 2000; the 'Vocations Fair' at Toronto, Canada, in 2002,
and the adoration of the Eucharist at Cologne, Germany, in 2005. Thus the
proposal made to young people on each occasion is in continual evolution,
seeking to respond to the true spiritual needs of today's youth".
The cardinal also provided some statistics, noting that "WYD in Madrid is
going to be a very significant event". Four hundred thousand young people
have already signed up; they will be accompanied by14,000 priests and by 744
bishops, of whom 263 will be responsible for catechesis. Two hundred and
fifty sites have been assigned for catechesis, which will be delivered in
thirty languages, and 700,000 copies of "YOUCAT" will be distributed in six
languages. Twenty-four thousand volunteers from different countries will be
involved in various services. Finally, before reaching Madrid, the young
people will be welcomed in sixty-eight Spanish dioceses, "in confirmation of
the fact that the entire Church in Spain is directly involved in the WYD
experience", said the cardinal. For those unable to reach Madrid,
"simultaneous gatherings of young people have been organised in countries
such as Ukraine, Burundi and Madagascar. They will be linked to the main
event in Madrid by television and internet.
"The Pope's presence is the culminating moment of any WYD", said the
president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, noting that the
forthcoming event in Madrid "will take place in the light of the recent
beatification of John Paul II, founder of World Youth Days. Thus John Paul
II will return among the young people he loved so much, and who loved him.
He returns as blessed, patron and protector. Indeed, the Eucharistic
celebration welcoming the youth to Madrid, presided by Cardinal Antonio
Maria Rouco Varela, archbishop of the city, on 16 August, will be dedicated
to the new blessed".
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AUDIENCES
VATICAN CITY, 28 JUN 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received members of
a delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, who have
come to Rome for tomorrow's Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul Apostles: His
Eminence Emmanuel, metropolitan of France and director of the office of the
Orthodox Church to the European Union; His Eminence Athenagoras, bishop of
Sinope and auxiliary of the metropolitan of Belgium, and Archimandrite
Maximos Pothos, vicar general of the metropolitan of Switzerland.
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
VATICAN CITY, 28 JUN 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
- Appointed Cardinal Angelo Scola, patriarch of Venice, Italy, as
metropolitan archbishop of Milan (area 4,208, population 5,334,788,
Catholics 4,887,661, priests 2,870, permanent deacons 118, religious 7,316),
Italy. He succeeds Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, whose resignation from the
pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having
reached the age limit.
- Appointed Msgr. Antonio Ferreira da Costa, official of the Section for
General Affairs of the Secretariat of State, as bureau chief of the same
section.
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NOTICE
VATICAN CITY, 28 JUN 2011 (VIS) - The Vatican Information Service informs it
readers that no VIS bulletin will be issued tomorrow Wednesday 29 June,
Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul Apostles and a holiday in the Vatican. Service
will resume on Thursday 30 June.
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