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Outline For World Youth Day 2011 In
MADRID
It's never too early to plan
your pilgrimage tour, especially for World Youth Day
2011!
"We will customize any pre or post
extensions to World Youth Day according to your
wishes"
August 16, 2011
08:00
Arrival at Madrid
From the early morning, groups registered in WYD will be able
to collect their accreditation and backpacks in the proper
designated area.
17:30
WYD Opening Mass
World Youth Day begins at 5:30 pm with a Mass in Madrid´s
Cibeles Square, presided over by the archbishop of Madrid and
concelebrated by the bishops and priests participating in
WYD.
21:00
Youth Festival
The first activities of the WYD cultural program begin,
including concerts, exhibitions, displays,
plays.
August 17, 2011
09:00
Catechesis sessions
WYD pilgrims will have catechesis session with bishops from all
over the world. The sessions will take place
in churches, schools, auditoriums and sports centers of
Madrid.
21:00
Youth Festival
Day 2 of the WYD cultural programs
August 18, 2011
09:00
Catechesis sessions
WYD pilgrims will have catechesis session with bishops from all
over the world.
The sessions will take place in churches, schools, auditoriums
and sports centers of Madrid.
17:00
Papal Welcome
At 5:00 pm, World Youth Day pilgrims will welcome the Pope in
Cibeles Square.
21:00
Youth Festival
Day 3 of the WYD cultural programs
August 19, 2011
09:00
Catechesis sessions
WYD pilgrims will have catechesis session with bishops from all
over the world.
The sessions will take place in churches, schools, auditoriums
and sports centers of Madrid.
17:00
Youth Festival
Day 4 of the WYD cultural programs
21:00
Via Crucis
At 9:00 pm the WYD Via Crucis or Way of the Cross will begin.
Fourteen "pasos"
of the Spanish Holy Week, from different points of the
peninsula, will go out in procession through the streets of
Madrid around Cibeles Square.
August 20, 2011
16:00
Preparatory ceremony in Cuatro Vientos
Young people will arrive little by little at the aerodrome and
take their places. Meanwhile, different
activities will take place on the stage (testimonies of young
people, musical interpretations, prayers to the Virgin, etc.),
to prepare for the Vigil.
20:00
Vigil with the Pope
At 8:00 pm the Pope will arrive at the Cuatro Vientos
aerodrome, and Eucharistic adoration will begin.
The
Holy Father will address the Youth.
23:00
Night in Cuatro Vientos
WYD participants will spend the night in the Cuatro Vientos
aerodrome. There
will also be several tents set up where they will be able to
adore the Most Blessed Sacrament.
August 21, 2011
09:00
WYD Mass of Sending
At 9:00 am
Pope Benedict XVI will concelebrate Mass with thousands of
bishops and priests, and he will address young people and those
who are not so young, to send them out to the world to be a
witness to their faith, as the Lord did with his Apostles.
At the end of the
conclusive Mass, the Holy Father will announce the place where
the next World Youth Day will take place.
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