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1. What is World Youth Day?
"The World Youth Day is a great gathering of young people around the world on the Vicar of Christ. It is a means of evangelizing Church that through this conference continues to announce the message of Christ to young people. The WYD is a commitment to spreading in the Church expresses its continuing concern for the youth. All young people should feel cared for by the Church, for this, the whole Church, in union with the Successor of Peter, must feel committed to growing globally, for youth (...) to correspond to their expectations, communicating the knowledge of Christ, the truth that is Christ, the love that is Christ through appropriate training, which is a necessary and date of evangelization. "(John Paul II, Address to the College of Cardinals, December 20 1985)
2. What are your goals for WYD?
The priority aim of WYD is to inform all young people in the world the message of Christ. It is an initiative of the Church's evangelizing, with a great ecumenical dimension. "I have beautiful memories of World Youth Day in Cologne was not simply a mass event, was above all a great celebration of faith, a human encounter of communion in Christ. We saw how faith has open borders and actually the ability to unite different cultures, and creates joy.
I hope the same will happen now in Australia. So I'm glad to see many young people and see them united in the desire of God and the desire for a humane world "(interview with Benedict XVI told reporters during the flight to Australia. July 12, 2008). Therefore, the objectives of the WYD are those of all evangelization: in particular, to present Christ to the youth of our time. So what is the nature of what happens in a World Youth Day, what are the forces acting on it ?
Some tests that are fashionable these days tend to be considered as a variant of modern youth culture, as a kind of modified rock festival in sense of Church with the Pope as a star.
"With faith or no faith, in the end these festivals would always be the same, and so intend to leave aside the question of God. There are also Catholic voices that go in this direction, considering all as a great show, although beautiful, would be of little significance for the question about faith and the presence of the Gospel in our time. They would be ecstatic moments of a holiday, but in the end then leave everything as it was before, not profoundly affect the lives . In this way, however, the peculiarity of this conference and the particular character of its joy, its creative power of communion not found explanation "(Address of Benedict XVI to the Curia, December 22, 2008).
3. Is this a great party youth?
depends what you mean by " big party juvenile
. Although some outward manifestations of the WYD similar to those of other youth levels, the reason that leads to thousands of young people to participate in WYD is not merely playful. It is true that young people experience numerous experiences joyful during these days, but that joy comes from his personal encounter with Christ, which is what we seek and find in these World Youth, of his experience of faith and Christian charity. It is not therefore a grand self-celebration of the Church, or of a meeting of young Catholics for autoexaltarse. This does not make sense, since the mission of the Church always looks to Christ and others, particularly to the needy.
However, experience confirms that JMJ end up being deeply joyful for those involved, and stay in the biographies of millions of young people of our time as it was beautiful. Only in this sense can be said that WYD are a party, because what happens in them said Benedict XVI alluding to the days of Sydney: "The days became a feast for all, indeed, only then fell truly realize what it really is a party, an event where everyone, so to speak, out themselves, go beyond themselves and are very well with him and with others "(Benedict XVI, address to the Curia, December 22, 2008).
"A great celebration of faith that brought together over two hundred thousand young people from all over the world and not only went outside, in a geographical sense, but also internally, because they shared the joy of being Christian"(Benedict XVI, Address to the Curia, December 22, 2008).
4. Are necessary the WYD ?
pastoral and apostolic experience in recent years has been overwhelmingly positive. Moreover, the sacredness of the Church involves visibility. The mission of the Church is always "ad gentes" ("Go into all the world and preach the Gospel, saith the Lord")
and that means being present in society. These Open Days are a manifestation of the presence of the Church and a sign of fellowship among its members. At these meetings, which are essentially meetings prayer, charity, solidarity and respect, highlighting the innermost being of the Church as the Church prays, as a pilgrim Church. And at the same time emphasizes its catholicity.
5. Do JMJ are directed exclusively to young Catholics?
The WYD have a clear Catholic identity, but are addressed to all young people worldwide. It is aimed primarily at young Catholics and are open to all young people of goodwill who wish to make in your personal life experience of God's love through His Son Jesus Christ, of brotherly love and concern for the needy. The experience of these decades has shown to be an opportunity for thousands of young people around the world can meet, make friends and learn from each other.
6. Who are convened and organized?
Pope. The Pope chose the theme, and explains in a message, and is convened by the young. The WYD are organized by the Pontifical Council for the Laity, a Vatican department which the Holy Father has entrusted the organization of World Youth Day. There is also a local organizing committee, which works closely con el Consejo Pontificio para los Laicos.
7. ¿Cómo se sufragan los gastos de la JMJ ?
Los gastos de la JMJ se sufragan: por las cuotas de participación de los jóvenes, que pagan una contribución para cubrir los gastos. Esta es la principal fuente de financiación de la JMJ . Por las empresas patrocinadoras de la JMJ , que ayudan con dinero y en especie a esta iniciativa de ámbito mundial, como manifestación de su responsabilidad social corporativa, y en cambio de la visibilidad en los actos, carteles, publicaciones, etc. Por donativos pequeños y grandes de many people of all ages who want to put their grain of sand to this call by the Pope to the youth of the world, to talk about Jesus, peace, reconciliation, commitment to the needy. For Madrid Vivo Foundation.
History
1. Where have you held previously?
In Buenos Aires, with the assistance of a million young people in Santiago de Compostela, with more than 500,000, in Czestochowa, to 1,600,000, in Denver, with 600,000, in Manila, with about 4 million, in Paris with 1.2 million; Rome, 2 million, in Toronto, 800,000; in Cologne, with 1.1 million, in Sydney, with 400,000.
2. How do you measure the success of WYD ?
The success or failure of JMJ not depend on the volume of participants, the number of actions to develop or how well they speak the media. The WYD pursue a different goal of spiritual, closer to God, commitment to truth and justice, progress in charity ... it can only evaluate the Holy Spirit is what moves the heart: the objective not fill a stadium or an airport, but personal conversion, the encounter with Christ in his heart of each of the participants. The WYD Madrid will be a success if many young people come to Jesus Christ.
3. Who initiated the WYD ?
During the Jubilee 1983-1984, called the Holy Year of Redemption in remembrance of the death of Jesus Christ 1,950 years ago, among the various celebrations dedicated to youth, the most important took place on the eve of Palm Sunday Rome. More than 300,000 young people from all over the world participated in International Jubilee of Youth. The Pope gave them a wooden cross. The year 1985 was proclaimed by the UN International Year of Youth. The Catholic Church organized an international meeting on Palm Sunday, March 31, with another 350,000 young people gathered in the Plaza de San Pedro. After this event, the Pope instituted the World Day of Youth, with annual cadence. Therefore, we can say that the WYD was a desire and initiative of John Paul II, seeing the massive turnout of young people who flocked to Rome for international meetings in 1984 and 1985.
Participate
1. Who can participate in WYD ?
At World Youth Day are invited all young people in the world of good will, girls and boys of all religions who want to share a few days of prayer, joy and solidarity. You are looking for many volunteers who are willing to collaborate for the good development of the World Youth Day.
2. Why is participating in the WYD ?
Pope invites young people from around the world to come to a particular city to "have a personal encounter with Christ that means a confirmation in faith and an inner conversion that young Catholics should take the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist. These meetings are the stages of a great pilgrimage across the globe, to show how faith in Christ makes us all children of one Father who is in heaven and builders of the civilization of love "(Benedict XVI, Angelus, Sunday July 27, 2008).
For the Catholic Church for what it is: the great family of God's children, young people shared with their deepest aspirations, anxieties, joys and sorrows. To exercise charity and solidarity, which must result from this personal encounter with Christ in the sacraments and prayer. That's why you want this WYD promoting the new service work of solidarity in the Church and society. To rediscover the intimate demands of their baptismal vocation and mission that came to that vocation. The Vicar of Christ reminds them that are called to be witnesses of Christ in every area of \u200b\u200bsociety, and that their mission is to bring the Gospel to other young people through their personal testimony and ministry. "This World Youth Day has become a new Pentecost, which prompted the mission youth, called to be apostles to their contemporaries, like so many saints and blessed, and in particular Blessed Piergiorgio Frassati, whose relics, placed in the cathedral of Sydney, were venerated by an uninterrupted pilgrimage of young people.
Every boy and every girl were invited to follow his example, to share personal experience of Jesus, who changes the life of his "friends" with the power of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God's love "(Benedict XVI , Angelus, Sunday July 27, 2008).
3. How old do I have to participate?
In the summer of 2011 must have at least about 14 years. Of course young families with children under 14 years are also invited, knowing that the Office of the World Youth Day can not assume the tasks of caring for children. Often involved young people from 14, 15, 16 to 30. The average is youth who are between 16 and 25 years.
4. How to prepare to participate in WYD ?
The Pope has reiterated on numerous occasions that JMJ is the culmination of a long road. This requires raising the program catechesis and Christian formation prior to WYD , because, as Benedict XVI said: "A World Youth Day is not just an event of this time is prepared over a long way with the cross and the icon of the Virgin. is prepared also from the point of view of organization and there is a spiritual preparation. Therefore, these days are only the culmination of a long road before. Everything is the result of a road, get together on the way to Christ. The World Youth Day also creates a history, ie, forming friendships, creating new inspirations. Thus the World Youth Day Continues "(Benedict XVI, met with journalists during the flight to Australia. July 12, 2008).
" First, it is important to note that the World Youth Days are not only in the one week which can be seen publicly to the world. There is a long road that leads outside and inside them. The cross, accompanied by the image of the Mother of God, made a pilgrimage across the country. Faith, in its way, you need to see and touch. The encounter with the cross, which is touched and taken, is transformed into an indoor meeting on the cross He died for us. The encounter with the cross raised in the depths of young people remember the God who wanted to become man and suffer with us. And we see the woman he gave us as our Mother. Solemn Days are just the culmination of a long process in which they are to each other, and together they are with Christ "(Benedict XVI, Address to the Curia, December 22, 2008).
5 . How much do participants in WYD ?
Participation in religious activities is completely free, not paid for attending the ceremonies of the Pope. contributions pilgrims used to cover accommodation and Meals on the WYD The Pilgrim's backpack, vouchers, transportation and tickets for cultural and artistic activities of JMJ . The amount is set according to requested services (accommodation, meals, etc.), And country of origin: those from countries most likely to pay more, and those who come from countries with fewer options, less. The organizers offer attendees who wish, a series of "packages" flexible and tailored to the different circumstances of participants, with different formulas for participation and economic costs.
organizers have especially in mind the economic problems of those young people with fewer opportunities in this respect. That is the meaning of the Solidarity Fund and the initiatives that implement the various dioceses in the world to offer simple low-cost alternatives. In addition, participants strongly requested to add a donation to the Solidarity Fund.
1. Are not the WYD too focused on the Pope?
"The protagonist of the WYD is not the Pope is the Vicar of Christ, but Christ himself. In Australia, not coincidentally, the long ordeal through the city became the culminating event of those days. That ordeal again summarized all that had happened in previous years and indicated the One that unites us all: the God who loves us to the cross. Also, the Pope is not the star around which everything revolves. It is totally and only vicar.
refers to another that is in our midst "(Benedict XVI, Address to the Curia, December 22, 2008). The demonstrations of affection with the Holy Father did not substantially relate to a particular person. This conference is not a tribute to Pope, call Karol Wojtyla and Joseph Ratzinger. The center is always Christ. AND manifestations of affection that are directed to Christ at last, on the occasion of the arrival in the city of his Vicar. There will be many people in this city received with cordiality Joseph Ratzinger, for his intellectual stature as a theologian, there will be others who receive it with the respect due a head of state of a foreign country, there will be others who do not feel sympathy for her figure and act with respect, following the game rules of the democratic state in which we live.
Fortunately in our society we accommodate everyone, and a manifestation of pluralism is to respect the free choices of political, religious and cultural rights of others. Take place in La Castellana demonstrations and receptions for heads of state of more diverse profiles. But Catholics and people of goodwill to participate in this conference will not only intellectual or Head of State, not even a spiritual leader but a representative of Christ, which they believe. This perspective helps to understand properly the essence of the phenomenon that escapes those who do not know the ultimate significance of the figure of the Pope. Therefore, to understand the full meaning of the WYD must take this reality: the participants are not only getting a head of state, nor a spiritual leader or the representative of a particular conception of existence are the Vicar of Him who gives meaning to their lives. We, therefore, to a genuinely religious act is performed within the framework of a free and democratic society, and the same scenarios in which events are held very opposite sign of faith. It is an act genuinely and deeply religious, but sometimes is made with the noisy joy of a public reception, sometimes with songs, and sometimes the silence of prayer. It is a manifestation of faith in Christ.
A welcome full of respect and veneration for his Vicar, the Successor of Peter, the visible Head of the Church of Christ. That sense is at the core Christological of this meeting. The WYD are much more, therefore, that a meeting or an occasion to intercultural dialogue between youth from different countries and cultures is a manifestation of faith, which is visible the perennial youth of the Church.
2. What is the Foundation Madrid Live?
is a English Foundation, formed by personalities of the social and economic life of the country, headed by Iñigo de Oriol, which was formed in Madrid on March 5, 2009. A primary objective of this Foundation, to which others will follow, is to collaborate in the organization of the Day World Youth Day 2011. For this has developed a "roadmap" which includes a series of institutional visits with the desire to support this event to both institutions and the social and cultural rights. The second stage will be the establishment of a Civic Platform plural and representative of all strata of the society of Madrid, to be presented in partnership with a civic event to be held in November 2009. People involved in the foundation of various profiles who believe that spirituality is essential to revitalize the English society and, especially, the region of Madrid. Among the members of the Board of Foundation include, among others: Iñigo de Oriol, who is the Chair, Gerardo Diaz Ferran, President of the CEOE, Emilio Botin, Rodolfo Martín Villa, Catalina Luca de Tena, Juan Abelló, Arturo Fernandez, Santiago Ybarra, Sabel Estapé, Francisco Pérez González, Marcelino Oreja, Antonio Fernández-Galiano, Luis Felipe Benjumea and Manzano. As Secretary General of the Board has been appointed the lawyer Javier Cremades and Luis Miguel Abat is the Managing Director. The Cardinal-Archbishop of Madrid, Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, the presidency of Honor Foundation.
3. What is the Fund Solidarity?
is a fund managed by the Pontifical Council for the Laity in which participants can contribute a voluntary donation of 10 euros. These funds are used to defray the necessary expenses to participate less affluent young people, especially those from economically disadvantaged countries, to make the World Youth Day is truly global.
4. Would not it be better to invest this money in social work?
The JMJ is in itself a major investment in social works in the short and long term. It encourages young people who come to do works of mercy and live in accord with their Christian commitment, which must be actively involved in solving social problems of his various companies, making a seed of justice and peace. Over the years we have seen the fruits of this conference here too: there are many young people in the world who are committed to improving their human and Christian societies through the WYD . By putting a specific case and an example that is in everyone's mind. The task is well known spiritual, human and several made by English missionaries around the world, especially in the poorest areas of South America o de África. Pues bien, tenemos constancia que de estas Jornadas surgen muchas decisiones de entrega a Dios y a los demás que llevan a miles de jóvenes a ese compromiso radical con Dios y con los más necesitados de nuestro mundo.
5. ¿Cuánto cuesta organizar la JMJ de Madrid 2011?
Como es lógico, aún no hay cifras: se irá informando puntualmente. Pero su coste estará muy por debajo de otros grandes eventos de relevancia internacional, como campeonatos deportivos, grandes conciertos, Juegos Olímpicos, etc. Supone una inversión inicial, pero los resultados obtenidos la justifican con creces. Al same time, JMJ is a source of economic wealth for the city including the host: the name resonates worldwide Madrid, Spain draws to a million people, reactive trade, and tourism services, serves showcase the natural and artistic wonders of the country and the great memories that will leave many young people will encourage them to visit more times throughout his life. Certainly, the state will face the costs of security, civil protection and health of individuals, but as has been demonstrated in all JMJ held to date, this event is surprisingly orderly and peaceful.
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