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With less than a year to go before World Youth Day Lisbon 2023 , teams of local organizers are meeting with representatives of Bishops’ Conferences, Youth Ministries, movements, and congregations for the International Preparatory Meeting in Fatima, on 17-19 October.
The gathering is aimed at clarifying the organization of the event and sharing the culture and identity of the host city and country.“This meeting is special as it is the first face-to-face meeting of youth ministry delegates since the World Youth Day in Panama in January 2019,” said Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, which organized the Preparatory Meeting.
Speaking at the opening of the Meeting, Cardinal Farell invited participants to “make this face-to-face encounter a sign of building bridges between nations and cultures.”He also highlighted the importance of coming together as “the one universal Church on the way,” noting that young people are the “protagonists of change” in the synodal youth ministry promoted by Pope Francis.
Cardinal Farrell said the principle of synodality has “direct relevance” for the Meeting in Fatima. While the organizers of WYD will present their plans, it is up to everyone to participate. “We are all co-organizers of the next World Youth Day!” he said. “We are all responsible! Let us therefore do all we can to support the Lisbon hosts in all their efforts.
“These are necessary, but their fruits are at another level. They are often hidden and small: there is the silent hearing of Christ's call to priestly service and consecrated life, there are the first tender glimpses of a future marriage, and there are the calls of the needy and of creation that move young people to rise up and act.
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