World Youth Day is scheduled for August 1–6 in Lisbon, Portugal. If you are not attending World Youth Day, you can learn more about it and join in the celebration from afar.
- Theme: “Mary arose and went with haste” (Luke 1:39)
- Theme Song and Music Video
- Message from Pope Francis
- Patron Saints and Blesseds
- The Symbols of WYD
- Schedule
Please join us in praying for the success of World Youth Day:
Our Lady of the Visitation,
you who arose and went with haste into the hill country to meet Elizabeth,
lead us also to encounter all those who await us
to deliver them the living Gospel: Jesus Christ, your Son and our Lord!
We, too, will go in haste, without distraction or delay,
but with readiness and joy.
We will go with peace because those who bring Christ bring peace,
and well-being comes from being generous and loving in our deeds.
Our Lady of the Visitation,
through your inspiration, this World Youth Day
will be a shared celebration of Christ, whom we bring to others, just as you did.
Please make this a time of testimony and sharing, of fraternity and thanksgiving,
with each of us looking for opportunities to give to those who are waiting to receive.
With you, we will continue on this path of encounter so that our world will join us, too,
in fraternity, justice, and peace.
Help us, Our Lady of the Visitation,
to bring Christ to everyone,
in obedience to the Father and in the love of the Holy Spirit!
Amen.
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