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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis delivered the homily at Mass in Krakow, Poland, on Sunday - World Youth Day - for a crowd of pilgrim faithful estimated at upward of one million people. The theme of the Holy Father's remarks to the gathered youth was how to overcome obstacles to building a real relationship with Jesus - whether they be obstacles that arise in one's own soul or obstacles one will inevitably encounter in the world and in society. Below, please find the full text of Pope Francis' prepared remarks**********************************************************Homily of His Holiness Pope FrancisMass for World Youth DayKrakow, Campus Misericordiae, 31 July 2016Dear young people, you have come to Krakow to meet Jesus. Today’s Gospel speaks to us of just such a meeting between Jesus and a man named Zacchaeus, in Jericho (cf. Lk 19:1-10). There Jesus does not simply preach or greet people; as the Evangelist tells us, he passed through the city (v. 1). In...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Sunday announced that Panama is to host the 2019 edition of World Youth Day. He made the announcement at the conclusion of the closing Mass for WYD Krakow 2016, just ahead of the Angelus prayer.The full text of the Holy Father's prepared remarks, including the announcement, can be found below******************************************************At the conclusion of this celebration, I join all of you in thanking God, the Father of infinite mercy, for allowing us to experience this World Youth Day. I thank Cardinal Dziwisz and Cardinal Rylko for their kind words and especially for the work and prayer with which they have prepared for this event. I also thank all those who have contributed to its successful outcome. Also, a big word of thanks goes to you, dear young people! You filled Krakow with the contagious enthusiasm of your faith. Saint John Paul II has rejoiced from heaven, and he will help you spread the joy o...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis visited Krakow’s Jesuit community on Saturday afternoon. Though not on the official programme, the visit was not entirely a surprise: indeed calls to local Jesuit houses have become something of a regular feature of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Journeys. One of the Jesuits on hand for the visit was the head of Vatican Radio’s Polish-language service, Fr. Leszek Gesiak, SJ. He told us the meeting was more than an occasion to exchange pleasantries.Click below to hear Lydia O'Kane's extended conversation with Fr. Fr. Leszek Gesiak, SJ, of Vatican Radio's Polish language service “He was very open [to] our ideas,” said Fr. Gesiak, “it was a kind of ‘exchange of ideas’ – ‘exchange of visions’,” he added, explaining that the Jesuits described their work in the country to the Holy Father in some detail, especially their work in secondary education and in higher education.I...
In concluding the World Youth Day (WYD) in Krakow, Poland this Sunday, Pope Francis has further entrenched World Youth Day firmly as a fixture of the universal Church every three years.WYD is an enduring legacy of Pope Saint John Paul II. It is especially significant that this year’s celebration took place in Pope Saint John Paul II’s Poland.Reflecting on this legacy with Vatican Radio, Cardinal Francis Arinze, the Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in the Vatican took note of the added dimension to this year’s WYD in Krakow.“There is another dimension to the World Youth Day this year because it is celebrated in Krakow. That is the place where St. Faustina was chosen by our Lord to be the Apostle of his Divine Mercy. The devotion to the Divine Mercy has since spread like wildfire, “Cardinal Arinze said.According to Cardinal Arinze, Pope Saint John Paul II loved young people and young people kne...
Krakow, Poland, Jul 31, 2016 / 03:19 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Our true identity cannot be lived out in glum negativity, but only in the knowledge that, in God's eyes, our value cannot be measured; no one is insignificant. Pope Francis made these remarks on Sunday to at least 1.5 million young people gathered in Krakow for the final Mass of World Youth Day (WYD).“God loves us the way we are, and no sin, fault or mistake of ours makes him change his mind,” the Pope said in his homily to the crowds of young people who filled Polish city's “Campus Misericordiae” – or “Field of Mercy.”“No one is insignificant,” the pontiff said. “He loves all of us with a special love; for him all of us are important: you are important!”“In his eyes, you are precious, and your value is inestimable.”In contrast, to not “accept ourselves, to live glumly, to be negative, means not to recognize our deepest identity,&rdquo...
Krakow, Poland, Jul 31, 2016 / 03:28 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Sunday Pope Francis officially closed WYD in Krakow, thanking the thousands of youth who traveled across the world to participate, and announced that the next global encounter will take place in Panama.“I am happy to announce that the next World Youth Day – after the two that will be held on the diocesan level – will take place in 2019 in Panama,” the Pope said July 31.He made the announcement after celebrating the closing Mass for the July 26-31 WYD event in Krakow, and before leading youth in the traditional Marian Angelus prayer.Rumors on where the next WYD would take place centered primarily on either Asia or Africa in the lead-up to the Krakow gathering, making the announcement of Panama to a certain extent unexpected, at least among the youth. However, according to one local, the country could use it.Aquilino, 40, from Panama City, was leading a group of youth from his hometown during the Krak...
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