Here's a photo of the Lancaster Diocesan World Youth Day 2008 (WYD'08) Group who set off on Tuesday 8th July to fly to Sydney, Australia to celebrate World Youth Day 2008 with Pope Benedict XVI and thousands of other young pilgrims. They actually flew to Melbourne first to stay a few days at the hospitality of families from Saint Bernard's Parish in Belmont, Victoria which is in the Archdiocese of Melbourne. They left Melbourne on Tuesday 15th July and flew to Sydney where they will be staying in a hotel until they fly back home on Tuesday 22nd July.
Today of course is World Youth Day, this was the day they had all waited for, because today they celebrated Mass with Pope Benedict and hundreds of thousands of other young catholic people. It was an amaising Mass. Live coverage on TV has enabled parents to see and hear the most beautiful music, singing, aboriginal dance and multicultural celebration, which has been truely awe inspiring. We are so proud of our sons and daughters...so very proud.
Visible Expression
The ecclesial community, while always having a universal dimension, finds its most immediate and visible expression in the parish. It is there that the Church is seen locally. In a certain sense it is...
"... the Church living in the midst of the homes of her sons and daughters..."
Pope John Paul II
Christifideles Laici [27]
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