World Youth Day Krakow 2016

Opening Prayer

Leader:

Heavenly Father, you have given us your Word to guide us along the path of happiness and holiness. Open our hearts and minds to receive your guiding Word.

May World Youth Day 2015 provide us with the opportunity to proclaim your Word across Australia, so that young people may come to know the love and guidance of your Son, Jesus. We ask this through the same Christ our Lord and may we continue to Love like Christ.

Reading -related to the WYD themeLeader: A reading from the letter of Saint Paul to the Philippians.

This is the word of the Lord

All: Thanks be to God

Highlights from WYD13

What is WYD?

Saint Pope JPII19842-3 yearsPilgrimageWYD Cross and Icon

Previous Clancy WYDsSydney 2008

Madrid 2011Rio 2013

WYD Week (25 - 31 July, 2016)

Opening Mass

Catechesis

WYD Week (25 - 31 July, 2016)

Papal arrivalStations of the CrossPilgrimage walk

WYD Week (25 - 31 July, 2016)

Sleepout and Final Mass

Missionary Work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2tcTXDhRo0

WYD13 Pilgrims -Carissa & Frankie

WYD Krakow 2016 Theme

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God” (Matt. 5:8).

WYD Logo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCeXesmzTmQ

Poland

Pilgrimage Options

1. Holy Land / Poland

2. Saints of Italy / Poland

3. WYD Direct (Prague / Poland)

1. Holy Land / Polando Approx $7,400 less $500 subsidyo Visiting sites sacred to Christianityo Amman, Jordano Dead Seao Jerusalemo Ein Karem (Birthplace of John the Baptist)o Bethlehem (Birthplace of Jesus)o Nazaretho Boat cruise on the sea of Galilee

o Capernaumo Mount of Beatitudeso Tabgha (Where Jesus fed the 5,000)o Tiberias, Canao Tel Aviv

TRAVEL DATES: 16/7 - 6/8/16

2. Saints of Italy / Polando Approx $6,700 less $500 subsidyo 2-3 days in Rome, visiting sites such as St Peters Basilica and other siteso 2-3 days around Assisi, visiting places from the life of St Franciso Travel to Sienna, visiting where St Catherine was born.o Then onto an overnight stay at Florence, the home to great churches, museums and galleries.

TRAVEL DATES: 17/7 - 6/8/16

WYD week & afterALL options will have:o Warsaw (Capital of Poland) and Czestochowao WYD Week in Krakowo Day trip to Auschwitz (Nazi Concentration and Extermination camp)o Retreat in Zakopane

3. WYD Direct (Prague / Poland)o Approx $5,500 less $500 subsidyo 4 days in Prague, Czech Republico Czestochowa, Polando WYD week and after (previous slide)TRAVEL DATES: 20/7 - 6/8/16

What now...

ALL INFO WILL BE EMAILED MIDDAYParent letters and

Expression of Interest FormsInformation Evening May 12

Forms to me by no later than June 5

Questions?