Pope Francis leads Marian vigil for Roman youth
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis presided over a prayer vigil in
the Basilica of St. Mary Major on Saturday evening, to open the diocesan
celebration of World Youth Day, which this year is being marked in dioceses all
throughout the world on Palm Sunday.
The Rome diocese has chosen a special Marian theme for its
world World Youth Day celebrations this year – celebrations that are also the
official opening of preparations for the 2018 Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of
Bishops, which is focused on young people, discernment, and vocational
accompaniment.
The website of the Rome diocese explains that the desire of
the Church is to make young people protagonists of this journey: to allow them,
by their prayerful presence, to enter upon the journey of the synodal process.
It was the originator of World Youth Day, Pope St. John Paul
II, who decided to make Palm Sunday the day on which the diocesan iterations of
World Youth Day would be celebrated in the years between the great worldwide
gatherings of young people, the next of which is scheduled to be held in Panama
City from January 22-29, 2019.
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