US prepares for World Youth Day
(Vatican Radio) Young people
across the US are preparing for the trip of a lifetime when they travel to
World Youth Day in Krakow. Over 30,000 pilgrims from the United
States alone have fully registered to travel to the event which will be
presided over by Pope Francis.
Paul Jarzembowski, is World
Youth Day USA national coordinator for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops,
He told Lydia O’Kane that the response has been incredible for the event.
“We have more pilgrims going from the United States to
this World Youth Day than we’ve had to any other World Youth Day outside of
North America, so I have to think that there is something about recapturing
that spirit with St John Paul II, with the Jubilee of Mercy, with being able to
encounter Pope Francis whom many of our young people are following through
social media, the news and the read his writings… so I think all of that put
together is getting people excited…”
But he also points out that
although there are many young people going from the United States, there are
those who will not be fortunate enough to attend the celebrations in Poland due
to different circumstances. With that in mind, the national coordinator
explains that even by staying at home young people will get a real chance to
experience World Youth Day.
“We have in different cities
across the United States, there are going to be gatherings… and then of course
people can celebrate in their own home parishes and we’re hearing reports of
perhaps one parish getting together with their young people throughout that
week, each night gathering their young people to follow what’s happening in
Krakow that day…”
For Paul Jarzembowski, he is
hoping that World Youth Day in Krakow will an opportunity for young people to
come back to the United States, not just sharing the Gospel but sharing it with
a sense of mercy and compassion.
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