Programma Pastorale

Pastoral Programme

Programma Pastorale

The context«WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE JESUS» (Jn 12,21)

The theological framework«THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH AND LIVED AMONGST US» (Jn 1,14)

The pastoral framework CHRIST SEARCHES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE - YOUNG PEOPLE ENCOUNTER CHRIST (cf TMA, 58)

The operative framework«AND YOU, WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?» (Mk 8,29)

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*WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE JESUS+
(Jn 12,21)

The context

1. World Youth Days (WYD), from the first to the most recent - Rome (1984), Buenos Aires (1987), Santiago de Compostela (1989), Czestochowa (1991), Denver (1993), Manila (1995) Paris (1997) - have proved to be providential events, occasions of grace for countless young people, privileged times for rediscovering and professing faith in Christ, for strengthening communion with the Church, and feeling called to become involved in the new evangelization of the world. These Days have been missionary and pastoral events of primary importance, stimulating in the Particular Churches renewal of youth ministry, with far reaching ecclesial, spiritual and cultural objectives and contents.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Now this gift of God is placed by the Holy Father at the heart of the Great Jubilee which celebrates the two thousandth anniversary of the incarnation of Christ, so that the young generations, to whom belong "the future of the world and of the Church" may encounter in a new way Christ who awaits them thus "make their own contribution to his presence in the next century" (Tertio Millennio adveniente 58).
The Rome WYD in 2000 intends to be an experience of faith, understood and lived in the spirit and with the significance of the Jubilee, in order to be the Jubilee of the "Young Church".