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Pedro Silva, in one of the confessionals that he helped build over the last few months in prison. | Photo courtesy of Clara RaimundoSome things take time. Pedro Silva needed to reach the age of 50, celebrated in a high-security prison cell, to look back and understand the “signs” he received along the way.
While still in prison, Silva told CNA about one of the first missions he will undertake post-incarceration — participating in WYD as a volunteer and helping to set up the confessionals in “Reconciliation Park,” which is being prepared in a Lisbon district called Belém , located alongside the Tagus River.
During this time, distributed among the confessionals will be priests of different nationalities , available to listen to pilgrims from all over the world who wish to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Coincidence or not, it was precisely in Belém, in the church of the Jerónimos Monastery, that Silva received baptism at the age of 12. Neither he nor his 12 siblings were baptised as babies and never attended catechesis.
“I went to the cathedral with my sister, who lived in Buenos Aires, and with her husband’s family, and we attended Mass.” “I was walking down the street and asked God to help me, to give me a sign. The next moment, I look down at the floor and see a folded magazine. I open it and it was an issue of Awake! by Jehovah’s Witnesses. So I looked up at the sky and said to God, ‘What? That fast?’”
A new complicated phase in life, marked by some mistakes, eventually brought him back to Portugal, condemned to a sixyear sentence at the Coimbra Prison. It was there that he learned that World Youth Day would take place in Lisbon, though he was still far from imagining he would ever see the Pope he loved again.
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