Forty-five thousand sign up for WYD only a few hours after Pope Francis - Meeting on the field of mercy...
Less than 24 hours after registration opened for
next year's World Youth Day (WYD), 45,000 people had already signed up.
The
first to register was Pope Francis himself who had previously announced that
the theme of the meeting would revolve around mercy.
According to the website's
managers, thus far there are 250 “macrogroups” and 300 volunteers signed up.
The countdown to the event is already surrounded by great enthusiasm. In exactly
one year — from 26 to 31 July 2016 — young people will meet in Krakow for the
31st WYD.
Twenty five years after its start, WYD will return
to Poland, the land of the Pontiff who created it. Even if Pope Wojtyła loved
to say that “it was the young people themselves who invented WYD”. In 1991 in
Częstochowa, a strong wind of faith was announced to the young people and from
them the faith blew beyond the iron curtain. The young Christians of eastern
and western Europe experienced the first large-scale encounter after the fall
of the Berlin Wall. Pope Wojtyła returned to his homeland for WYD which saw the
participation of more than one million people.
A true jubilee of young people will be celebrated on
a global level. Pope Francis recalled this at the Angelus and Cardinal
Stanisław Ryłko, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, also
underlined it in a message published on the dicastery's website. The theme of
WYD is “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy” is part of the
extraordinary holy year which will begin on 8 December. WYD in Krakow will
complete a three part series of themes dedicated to the Beatitudes. The theme
in Rio in 2014 was “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom
of heaven”. This year's theme for the 30th WYD on the diocesan level is
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God”.
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