Yesterday, the World Youth Day Press Office for WYD 2011 Madrid made Pope Benedict XVI’s official itinerary public for this August’s World Youth Day. While the agenda is similar from past World Youth Days, it has a couple of new events.
For the first time as part of WYD, Pope Benedict will be meeting with 2,000 young university professors in the Basilica. “This encounter shows the Pope’s special esteem for the world of higher learning and culture,” said Carla Díez de Rivera, Director of the WYD Cultural Department.
While past World Youth Day’s have included a meeting and Mass with seminarians, WYD Madrid will also include a meeting with religious sisters at the Monastery of El Escorial.
Friday night’s Stations of the Cross will be held using 14 statues that have been contributed from different parts of Spain. The Stations will take place on the Paseo De Recoletos, between Plaza de Cibeles and Plaza de Colón.
The Saturday evening prayer vigil and Sunday morning closing Mass will take place at the Cuatro Vientos Air Base, located in the southwest corner of the city, approximately 8 km from downtown Madrid. The airfield also hosted the 2003 encounter of Pope John Paul II with Spanish youth.
The Papal Itinerary for WYD 2011 is as follows:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18
12:00 Arrival at Barajas Airport.
Welcome Ceremony at the State Hall.
12:40 Entrance into Madrid in Popemobile and arrival at Nunciature.
19:00 Welcome Ceremony with youth at Cibeles.
In Plaza de la Independencia (near Cibeles), he will pass through the Puerta de Alcalá with youth from all the continents. After this event, he will travel in Popemobile to Plaza de Cibeles.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19
11:30 Meeting with young religious sisters in “Patio de los Reyes” at the Monastery of El Escorial.
Meeting with 2,000 young college teachers in the Basilica.
19:30 Stations of the Cross in Plaza de Cibeles.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20
10:00 Mass for seminarians in the Cathedral of “La Almudena”.
19:40 Visit to the “Fundación Instituto San José”, a center for people with disabilities run by the Hospitaller Order of St John of God.
20:30 Prayer Vigil with youth at Cuatro Vientos Air Base.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 21
09:00 Arrival at Cuatro Vientos and Popemobile tour of the area.
09:30 Closing Mass of WYD begins.
17:30 Meeting with World Youth Day volunteers at the IFEMA Fairgrounds.
18:30 Official Farewell Ceremony at Barajas Airport.
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Pray for vocations and that they will come from WYD participants
Dear Tim,
I don’t know if you’ve already seen this, but Grassroots Films recently released the official video for World Youth Day 2011, “26 Years of World Youth Days”. It’s really moving.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxOTpuQe6M4
God Bless!
not by lip-worship, but by prayer, penance, reparation, by rekindling in our consciences the Justice of God, and by emblazoning before our eyes the Christ of Judgment in order that all of us, Jews, Protestants, and Catholics may, by a rebirth of the moral law, save America and salvage the world. Let us not fool ourselves ! Nothing short of contrition and humiliation before the Lord of the Universe can save us: unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he ratchets in vain that keeps it” (Psalms 126:1).
WYD should be the example set by the children of Fatima not Fast Times at Ridgemont High! From where I sit there is one very important element missing in WYD…dignity. Our culture has become a bunch of beach slobs in our manner of dress and how we act. It is sickening to see the way people dress when they attend Mass on Sunday and this comes from this loose culture of teen Mass and other nonsense that youth “ministers” have been allowed to force down our throats since Vatican II. Too much frivolity and not enough penance it is no wonder at all we have Priest scandals and dwindling Religious orders…you get what you pray for.
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