World Youth Day

World Youth Day

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  • Lisbon 2023

    Lisbon, Portugal | August 1-6, 2023
    Theme: "Mary arose and went with haste" (Luke 1:39)

    World Youth Day (WYD) is an international festival of faith where pilgrims from around the world come together with young people from every continent to pray, worship and celebrate the Catholic faith. Celebrated every two to three years as an international gathering, millions of young people join Pope Francis to celebrate their faith and sense of belonging to the Church and to promote peace, unity and fraternity among peoples and nations around the world.

Follow Our Journey

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  • DAY SIX: WELCOMING THE POPE

    I arose to the sound of knocking at my door. I didn’t know who it was but I knew that I was late.
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  • DAY FIVE: OFF TO FATIMA

    On Wednesday, we took a bus ride down to see the apparition site of Our Lady of Fatima and attended a gathering of United States pilgrims to listen to Bishop Barron as well as took time to pray as a group.
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  • DAY THREE AND FOUR: EXPLORING LISBON AND THE OPENING MASS

    We started our day by getting on the subway into downtown Lisboa.  We then walked thought the very narrow and crowded streets to the cathedral of the city, starting to see how many people had come to Lisbon for World Youth Day.
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  • DAY TWO: CASTLES AND THE BASQUE COUNTRY

    Few sounds could’ve been more unwelcome than my 7:00am alarm, disrupting what could have easily been another 3 hours of sleep. Luckily a typical array of Spanish breakfast items awaited us at our hotel to make the strict pilgrim schedule a little less ascetic.
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  • DAY ONE: TERMINAL FUN

    It was dark. I awoke from my slumber and groggily rolled out of bed. My parental units drove me to the airport to ship me off to another mystical land.
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  • PRE-BOARDING

    From the very moment I heard about World Youth Day, I was inclined to learn more about what it meant. It was first brought up to me one day at lunch by one of the Jesuit Priests at the school. He told me a little bit about his experience with the event, and I became intrigued by the event. As I started doing more research, I learned more about what each day would be like and all of the events, artwork, and experiences that the mission would offer.
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