WYD Summary on YouTube

This video gives a good summing-up of what WYD08 was about.
(h/t to Catholic Rights)

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Sydney and another WYD Blog

We arrived in Sydney, after a journey which began at 4.30 a.m. and ended at 10.00 p.m. Yesterday was a free day, which allowed the groups to wander around the city and get an idea of where things are. The priests had to go for their Photo-ID cards to an understaffed and undersized office. I [...]

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Passionist Youth Encounter

It’s 3.45 a.m. and I’m about to get on the bus to Sydney. We finished the Passionist Youth Encounter at Endeavour Hills, Melbourne last night. I hope to post about it tomorrow from Sydney. Meanwhile, some groups and individuals have been blogging from the PYE and as I receive their information, I will pass it [...]

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YPM Day Five

Each evening at the Young Passionists Meeting, after the Eucharistic Adoration, there has been recreation together, with different regions taking turns to lead the entertainment. On Tuesday evening, one of the regions involved was Northern Europe. Here is a photograph, courtesy of Brother Gabriel, of the Bavarian/Austrian Karaoke session.

On the final day of the Young [...]

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YPM Day Four

Yesterday (Tuesday) was Day Four of our Meeting and the speaker was Father Ottaviano D’Egidio, the Superior General of the Passionists. Father Ottaviano spoke on Charism and Mission, another theme from the General Chapter. The main thrust of his talk was the importance of the relationship between our prayer and community life and our mission [...]

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YPM Day Three

Monday was Day Three of the Young Passionists Meeting. Our theme for the day was Community Life, based on the General Chapter’s reflection The Passionist Charism is lived in Relationships. The speaker for the morning lecture was Father Amilton Manoel da Silva who is novice master for the Passionists in Brazil. Father Amilton gave his [...]

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YPM Day Two

Yesterday at the Young Passionists Meeting, the theme was The Passionist Charism – The Centrality of the Experience of Saint Paul of the Cross. Each day there is a lecture or presentation in the morning, following by a time of sience for prayer and reflection on the theme of the day. After this there is [...]

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Young Passionists Meeting

The Young Passionists Meeting began on Saturday evening at Holy Cross Retreat, Templestowe, Melbourne. There are about sixty delegates from different provinces, vice-provinces and vicariates. Father Emmanuel from Zambia lost his luggage on the way here and it still has not been found. He borrowed a habit and some other clothes, but in his case [...]

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WYD Preparations

Here are some of the Saint Mungo’s Young Adult Group with Sister Maureen preparing World Youth Day outfits last Sunday. If they haven’t folded everything, it’s too late now because the WYD pilgrims from Saint Mungo’s will be leaving for Australia in the early hours of this morning. They will be attending the Passionist Youth [...]

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The Far Side of the World

I am now in Melbourne for the Young Passionists Meeting (-no, you’re right; I am too old to qualify). Father Gary has a post which explains why I am attending this meeting.

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