After the intensity of our experiences at World Youth Day, the act of descending from the mountaintop—leaving behind the elevated emotions, profound sense of communion and boundless joy—is ...

“I opened my eyes and I could see perfectly,” said Jimena, a 16-year-old Spanish World Youth Day ... receiving Communion I began to cry a lot, because it was the last day of the novena and ...

It’s early afternoon in Lisbon, Portugal, on the opening day of World Youth ... city is teeming with youth—one group I know is sleeping, tightly packed together, in a train depot for the ...

In a message for World Youth Day 2021, released on Sept ... in others, and in the communion of the Church, where all loneliness is overcome.” “Arise! Testify to the love and respect it ...

These are among the latest statistics released by organizers of World Youth Day, which will take place ... Portuguese wheat for the manufacture of Communion hosts, which are being produced by ...

World Youth Day is a massive gathering of Catholic youth ... make their First Solemn Communion with Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the ...

In a world which often seems to be filled with negativity and decline, the fact that over a million young pilgrims have journeyed to Lisbon for World Youth Day is ... in communion with the saints ...

Pope Francis emphasized the need for courage and resilience in the face of a secularized, increasingly pessimistic world during his vespers address for World Youth Day. Pope Francis spoke at ...

“Therefore, the Church recognizes the WYD cross handover ceremony as the start of the World Youth Day.” The handover ceremony was held after the Holy Communion of the Mass when Pope Francis greeted ...

A pilgrim receives Communion during the opening Mass of World Youth Day in Panama City Jan. 22, 2019. (CNS photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic Standard) He wanted them to know, he said, that they ...

Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - In communion with the young people in the world gathered around the Pope in Madrid to celebrate the 26th World Youth Day, the Episcopal Commission for the Apostolate of the ...