Cardinal
Rylko sends message for Krakow World Youth Day 2016
(Vatican Radio) Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, President of
the Pontifical Council for the Laity, has sent a message looking ahead to the
next World Youth Day which will take place in Krakow from July 26th to 31st
2016. Pope Francis is scheduled to attend the event that will be focused
on the theme from the Beatitudes: ‘Blessed are the merciful, for they will be
shown mercy’. Philippa Hitchen reports…
Taking place in the context of the Jubilee Year of Mercy which
begins on December 8th this year, the Krakow event follows on from the last
World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro where Pope Francis told young people to read
the Beatitudes because, he said, it “will do you good”. In his message Cardinal
Rylko notes that the Pope has made the theme of mercy a priority of his
pontificate and that the Krakow meeting will mark an international Jubilee of
Young People dedicated to this theme.
It’s the second time that World Youth Day has been held in
Poland – the first such event took place in 1991 at the Marian shrine of
Czestochowa with Pope John Paul II. The Polish pontiff will also be spiritually
present at the 2016 event as young participants visit the tomb of St Faustina
Kowalska at the Divine Mercy shrine, inaugurated by Pope John Paul during his
last visit to his homeland in 2002. There, they will be able to take part in a
programme of meditations and recitation of the Divine Mercy chapelet.
Numerous confessionals will also be set up and Pope Francis
himself is likely to offer the sacrament of reconciliation to a number of young
men and women attending the celebration. A symbolic Holy Door will also be
built at the shrine, through which the Pope will process at the start of the
prayer vigil and Eucharistic Adoration on Saturday July 30th. Following the
final Mass on Sunday 31st, Pope Francis will give lighted lamps to five young
couples from the five continents to symbolically send all the participants out
as missionaries of God’s mercy throughout the world.
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