Vatican City, 4 April 2014 (VIS) –
The heads of youth pastoral care from all over the world will meet in
Rome, invited by the Pontifical Council for the Laity, from 10 to 13
April. It will be the first international meeting linked to the
Krakow World Youth Day, and will offer an opportunity for checks and
review for the organisers of the event. The meeting will be attended
by 250 delegates from the Episcopal conferences of around 90
countries and 45 Catholic communities, associations and youth
movements, as well as all the local organisational committees for Rio
de Janeiro 2013 and Krakow 2016.
The work of the congress will begin on
Thursday 10 April with an introductory greeting from Cardinal
Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity.
The entire day will be dedicated to a review of the Rio de Janeiro
World Youth Day in 2013, “a celebration of faith and fraternity”.
“Towards Krakow 2016” will be the theme of Friday 11 April: it
will be introduced by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, archbishop of
Krakow. Saturday 12 April will offer the opportunity for joint
reflection on the theme “World Youth Days and their integration in
ordinary youth pastoral”. On Sunday 13 April, Palm Sunday, the
delegates will attend a Holy Mass celebrated by the Holy Father in
St. Peter's Square, with the diocesan celebration of the 29th World
Youth Day.
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