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It’s early afternoon in Lisbon, Portugal, on the opening day of World Youth Day 2023, and my mother had just sent me a text message. “Son, bring me some of those Youth Day t-shirts, and anything to put around my neck as a souvenir,” she writes. “How I wish I could be there with you!”
I had been here for over a fortnight, and each day the atmosphere grew more electric as pilgrims from every country descended on one of the oldest cities in Europe for the largest gathering of youth in the world. It seemed there were makeshift stages that erupted with song in every square; every café sounded like a living tower of Babel. The city was teeming with youth — one group I knew slept, tightly packed together, in a train depot for a week.
In a Church riddled with scandals of abuse of power and sex, financial impropriety and political wars, it can be easy to lose hope and a sense of why we continue to be Catholic. Mega-events like this, where the Church’s faithful gather in celebration and worship, bolster us.
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