Official Theme Song of World Youth Day Panama 2019

Composed by Abdiel Jiménez Music
Arranged by Anibal Muñoz.
The original title, "Hágase en mi Según tu Palabra." WYD Panama 2019 Theme Song.
Translated by Fr. Rob Galea
Sung by Fr. Rob Galea, Natasha Pinto and Gary Pinto

Holy Mass for the 31st edition of World Youth Day

World Youth Day Fever is On in Krakow Poland!

Pope Francis Arrival in Krakow, Poland for the World Youth Day celebration

French Young Pilgrims to the World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland

Filipino Delegates to the World Youth Day in Warsaw, Poland!

The official delegates from the Church in the Philippines attend a Days in the Diocese celebration in Warszawa Praga, starting with the procession flags. (Photo: CBCP ECY)

CNS: Auschwitz sets up tour dates just for World Youth Day pilgrims

Posted on March 11, 2016
By Nancy Wiechec
Catholic News Service

Visitors look over displays of photographs of concentration camp prisoners outside the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and State Museum in Oswiecim, Poland. (CNS/Nancy Wiechec)

OSWIECIM, Poland (CNS) — The Auschwitz memorial and museum is setting aside days exclusively for World Youth Day pilgrims who want to tour the former Nazi death camp.

The museum has set aside July 20-28 and Aug. 1-3 for participants in World Youth Day, which runs July 26-31 in Krakow, about one-and-a-half hours away.

World Youth Day officials set aside 300,000 spots and asked participants to register for the dates. In early March, they said about 57,000 spots remained. Participants who wish to visit the museum on the designated days must register at http://mlodzi.duszpasterstwa.bielsko.pl/auschwitz.

A record 1.72 million people visited the Auschwitz memorial and museum in 2015. It was the largest group ever to tour the former Nazi death camp in any given year.

The largest number of visitors came from Poland, 425,000; the United Kingdom, 220,000; and the United States, 141,000. Young people made up the majority of visitors, according to the museum’s annual report.

Between 1940 and 1945, more than 1 million Jews and tens of thousands of Poles, Roma, Soviet POWs and others were murdered by the SS at Auschwitz. The SS, which originated as the elite guard of the Nazi Party, later became units of fanatical soldiers and concentration camp guards.

Auschwitz was the largest camp complex established by the Nazis. The main camp, known as Auschwitz I, was expanded to include Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau) in 1941 and Auschwitz III (Auschwitz-Monowitz) in 1942.

Among those killed were St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, and St. Edith Stein, a Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Carmelite nun.

The starvation cell, where St. Maximilian and others spent the last days of their lives, can be viewed in the basement of Block 11. It is known as “the death block” because it was used by the SS to inflict torture.

Auschwitz has stood as testament to the Holocaust for 70 years. Education, preservation and research is a large part of the museum’s ongoing mission.

Among the exhibits are heaps of eyeglasses, shoes, suitcases, Jewish prayer shawls, clothing, kitchenware, baskets and other personal items belonging to victims. A mound of worn hair and shaving brushes is on display in one room. Along a wall in another, clumps of human hair, shaven from those imprisoned and killed in the camp, are piled behind glass.

Polish Catholic leaders have expressed hope that Pope Francis might visit Auschwitz in July when he comes to Poland for World Youth Day. St. John Paul II visited in 1979 and Pope Benedict XVI in 2006.

July 27-28, 2013: Celebration of two churches, which has the characteristics of the real Church?

BELOW VIDEO: The IGLESIA NI CRISTO-1914 celebrating their 99th Founding Anniversary.  All their videos show that they are 99.9% FILIPINOS!

Is this the true church?

BELOW VIDEO: The UNIVERSAL CHURCH-33 AD 28th World Youth Day Celebration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. All videos show the universal characteristic of this church.

If you are a NON-FILIPINO what church would you want to join? A church that is exclusively dominated by Filipinos from Philippines founded in 1914 AD or a church that is well represented by all nations, races, languages, ethnicity, culture, tradition, history founded around 33 A.D.?  The choice is yours! Your choice is your salvation!

Did Pope Francis really say OK for gays?

Anti-Catholics out there especially the notorious anti-Catholic and anti-Christ sect from the Philippines-- the Iglesia ni Cristo®-- would rejoiced with the news that distorted what Pope Francis said about homosexuals.

"The Bible and the Catholic Church have never taught that it is a “sin” to be homosexual."  Thanks Fr. Jonathan Morris from  FOXNEWS!

What Pope Francis really said about gays -- and no, it's not new

Pope Francis doesn’t do interviews. Or at least that’s what we thought. He said that about himself just one week ago on the way to Rio de Janeiro for World Youth Day.

Then World Youth Day happened. And it happened in a big way.

According to official reports from City Hall, 3.2 million young people gathered on Copacabana Beach to see him, pray with him, and hear his proposal about the meaning of life.

His closing message to them was simple: Go back to your homes, and serve others without fear.

Hours later, perhaps taking to heart his own closing message about fearless service, Pope Francis offered an 80 minute, unscripted question-and-answer session with the international press corps.

In its entirely, the press conference on the pope’s plane traveling from Brazil back to the Vatican was fascinating. (For more, please look at my Twitter reports.)

But, unfortunately, if you were reading the headlines from some media outlets, you would have learned just one thing. As the Huffington Post put it: “Breakthrough: Pope OK with Gays.”

This is the worst coverage of a religious story I have seen to date.

Let’s begin with the fact that the pope has always been “OK” with homosexuals. In fact, by the demands of his own religion he is required to be much more than just “OK.” The Christian faith teaches that every person is endowed by God with an inviolable dignity and therefore deserves our unconditional respect and love.

A section of an Associated Press report also got the story very wrong. Summarizing the pope’s comments on homosexuals in the priesthood, the AP reported: “Francis was much more conciliatory [than Pope Benedict], saying gay clergymen should be forgiven and their sins forgotten.”

Pope Francis didn’t say that, and the report is wrong on so many levels.

First of all, it suggests that being gay itself, is a sin. What Pope Francis really said, in response to a reporter’s question about homosexual priests who are living a celibate life was this: “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?”

Pope Francis simply and compassionately reiterated Biblical teaching. The Bible and the Catholic Church have never taught that it is a “sin” to be homosexual. They teach it is a sin to have homosexual sex because it goes against the laws of God’s nature, specifically his plan for human sexuality.

When Pope Francis says “who am I to judge” he is saying—and I think we need to hear more of this from religious leaders—that active homosexuals deserve the same kindness, love, and mercy that all of us sinners would hope to receive from God and from others.

We don’t make judgments about anyone’s personal worth—God has already done that when he created us out of love.

I would hope next time Pope Francis offers to meet with the press, they would take to heart his message about fearless service and report to their readers what he actually said, rather than what they wish they had heard.

So stop circulating a distorted news and get the facts straight from the source!

Catholic Youths are Well-Behaved!

"...Catholic youth who descended on Rio from around the world were almost unfailingly good-natured and well-behaved. " -Eduardo Paes, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during the World Youth Day 2013 with more than 3,000,000 attendees [Source: The Telegraph]

Photo Source: CBS News

Let's Celebrate our Faith! It's WORLD YOUTH DAY in RIO, BRAZIL!

Let's celebrate our Catholic Faith! Celebrate it with our Catholic World Youth Day in BRAZIL!

For timely updates visit the Official Website of WYD 2013 Rio! Or these alternative websites World Youth Day and  xt3.com!

If you don't want to miss anything, watch the events  LIVE! Here's a screenshot of the WYD2013 schedules of programs.

The CHURCH must have the UNIVERSAL character

The UNIVERSALITY of the CHURCH

vs.

A church that has members only from the same demographic location such as the Philippines can never be the true one.

Father Barron: The Mainstream Media Missed the Point of World Youth Day

The Catholic Church — at least in the West — is passing through a dark period, largely of its own making. But has the Catholic Church lost the future? The mainstream media wants you to think so. But any of those who experienced World Youth Day firsthand would say, “Don’t you believe it.”

Article Source: National Catholic Register

I have just completed one of the most extraordinary weeks of my life.

For the past eight days, I participated in World Youth Day in Madrid, a gathering of some 1.5 million Catholic young people with Pope Benedict XVI. I met enthusiastic teen and 20-something Catholics from the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sweden, Nigeria, England, Australia, New Zealand, China, the Philippines, India, Denmark and many other countries.

The universality of the Church has never been, for me anyway, on fuller and more thrilling display. My Word on Fire team and I were especially encouraged to see so concretely the outreach that the Internet and the new media provide. To hear, over and again, and in dozens of different accents, that our videos and podcasts have made a difference in people’s lives was deeply gratifying.

Some images that will be forever burned in my memory: a 20,000-seat arena, absolutely filled with young Catholics rocking, stomping and singing; Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, striding the stage like a pro, delivering one-liners worthy of David Letterman, and sharing the unvarnished Gospel with his youthful audience; giving a talk in a very hot room, jammed to the rafters with kids eager to hear about the process of discerning a vocation; hordes of young Catholics, wearing their distinctive yellow World Youth Day T-shirts, carrying overloaded backpacks, and marching through the streets of Madrid like a non-violent army; hundreds of fresh-faced religious in their distinctive habits, joyfully making their way through the various venues; tens of thousands of people kneeling in silent adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; the Successor of Peter presiding over a crowd of 1.5 million at an airfield southwest of Madrid; a steady stream of kids asking where they could find the adoration chapel or how they could arrange for confession; Benedict XVI himself, drenched with rain, but willing to stick it out with the giant crowd that was enduring a downpour in order to hear him.

Next World Youth Day: BRAZIL 2013

August 21, 2011. (Romereports.com) It's official. The next World Youth Day will take place in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. (see video here).

The country has the most Catholics when compared to other nations. It has a population of roughly 191 million people and its capital is Brasilia.

Rio de Janeiro is the second most populated city in Brazil, with about 11 million people. It also holds the title for the most visited city in the southern hemisphere.

Rio is a main economic source for Brazil. It houses one of the seven wonders of the modern world, the statue of Christ the Redeemer.

It will also host the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016. But before all this, it will welcome the pope in 2013.

More than a million attended at WYD closing in Madrid, Spain

Pope arrives at monastery of El Escorial for World Youth Day

WYD Madrid 2011: Benedict XVI passes through the Puerta de Alcala

Pope showered with confetti

Clouded: Confetti descended no the Popemobile as the pontiff made his way into the city centre of Madrid
(Source: DailyMail.uk)

See more photos HERE!

Pope Benedict XVI passing the streets of Madrid

World Youth Day Welcomes the Pope

International Youths for the World Youth Day are now eager to welcome the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI today in Madrid.  The World Youth Day is an unmatched world gathering of Catholic Youths around the world. The UN is counting on us!

Viva El Papa!