WYD | JMJ RESOURCES: LISBON 2023 PRAYER BOOKLET LINKS + HOMILIES by: HIS HOLINESS, POPE FRANCIS & HIS EMINENCE, CARDINAL D. MANUEL CLEMENTE [with Live Video / Replays]
LINK TO OPENING CEREMONIES (REPLAY), AUGUST 2; LIVE BROADCAST PLAYLIST on YOUTUBE on the ROSARY: A MINI SERIES CHANNEL
ETERNAL WISDOM
Dr. Peter Kahn, Guest Author to the Rosary Hour Podcast from the United Kingdom:
“Praying the Rosary is particularly powerful when we engage in meditation on each mystery. It is quite amazing to think that in pondering on the mysteries of the Rosary we are quite directly copying Our Lady’s example. In Luke’s Gospel we are told that Mary treasured up all the things that happened to her, and pondered on them in her heart. She quite evidently meditated on the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity, the Presentation in the Temple and the Finding in the Temple. There is no reason to imagine that she would not have continued to ponder on so many more events from the life of her Son. We keep her company when we meditate in this way, and immerse ourselves in her own interior world.” (July 15, 2023)
Learn the Hail Mary on https://nossasenhora.substack.com
LEARN TO PRAY THE HAIL MARY in PORTUGUESE on YOUTUBE HERE:
ROSARY HOUR PODCAST JMJ | WYD PLAYLIST LINK on YOUTUBE:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLocLEBXyni_sOKu6ZAKXhyGhO5z2Xkpmp [LAST UPDATED: AUGUST 15, 2023]
Also, a *new* much more intuitive set of playlists now posted by the Official JMJ on August 3 with all languages! TY, JMJ!
Matt Frad on World Youth Day experience
OFFICIAL ITINERARY OF POPE FRANCIS FROM THE HOLY SEE ONLINE:
ITALIAN | PORTUGUESE | ENGLISH
UPCOMING ROSARY WITH POPE FRANCIS IN FÁTIMA - Sat. 5 August 2023
08H00 Pope Francis Departs by helicopter from Figo Maduro Air Base in Lisbon to Fátima with 08H50 Arrival at Fátima Stadium;
09H30 Recitation of the Holy Rosary with Sick Young People at the Chapel of Apparitions of the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima
18:00 Private meeting with Members of the Society of Jesus at “Colégio de S. João de Brito”
20H45 Vigil with Young People at “Parque Tejo”
AUGUST 4, 2023
Friday, 4 August 2023
LISBON
09H00 The Holy Father Celebrates the Sacrament of Reconciliation with Some Young People at “Praça do Império”
09H45 Meeting with Representatives of Some Aid and Charity Centres at “Centro Paroquial de Serafina”
12H00 Lunch with Young People at the Apostolic Nunciature
18H00 Stations of the Cross with Young People in “Parque Eduardo VII”
AUGUST 3, 2023
9H00: Universidad Católica Portugesa, Lisboa
10H40: Viaje apostólico a Portugal: Encuentro con los jóvenes de Scholas Occurrentes - Sede de Scholas Occurentes de Cascais
17H45: Viaje apostólico a Portugal: Ceremonia de acogida
Parque Eduardo VII, Lisboa
APOSTOLIC JOURNEY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS to PORTUGAL ON THE OCCASION OF THE XXXVII WORLD YOUTH DAY
JMJ | WYD MISSAL PROGRAMME (PDF DOWNOAD), AUGUST 2-6
Thursday, 3 August 2023:
WELCOME CEREMONY VIDEO (LISBOA): “POPE MOBIL”
Wednesday, 2 August 2023 | Miércoles, 2 de agosto de 2023
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS at Cultural Centre of Belém, Lisbon
(2 - 6 August 2023) MEETING WITH THE AUTHORITIES, CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS
PORTUGUESE: CLICK HERE
FRENCH: CLICK HERE
GERMAN: CLICK HERE
ITALIAN: CLICK HERE1
HOMILÍA DEL SANTO PADRE [ES] Monasterio de los Jerónimos, Lisboa
Vespers with Bishops, Priests, Deacons, Consecrated Persons, Seminarians and Pastoral Workers “Mosteiro dos Jerónimos” (Lisbon) at 17:30
Please watch and / or share the above link with the elderly, the sick, the hospitalized, the homebound, those who are isolated, alone, with no one to pray with them and who might be excited to be part of World Youth Day but unsure where to find these materials. If you are visiting someone who is unwell, pray with them, read to them the sermon below, or pray some of the prayers in the booklets below so they can unite with Youth in Lisbon.
Also, if you have time today, make the effort to find children (cousins, friends, relatives) and invite them to experience World Youth Day in Lisbon with some of the resources below.
ALSO:
SEE - https://www.ewtn.com/tv/extra-watch-live for ongoing live coverage in English 3 AUG
WORLD YOUTH DAY OFFICIAL BOOKLETS (*NEW, PDF LINKS BELOW!)
WORLD YOUTH DAY LITERATURE (PDF DOWNLOADS)ENGLISH: JMJ PILGRIM’S HANDBOOK + PRAYER BOOKLET
PORTUGUESE: JMJ PILGRIM’S HANDBOOK + PRAYER BOOK
FRENCH: JMJ PILGRIM’S HANDBOOK + PRAYER BOOK
SPANISH: JMJ PILGRIM’S HANDBOOK + PRAYER BOOK
ITALIAN: JMJ PILGRIM’S HANDBOOK + PRAYER BOOK
RHP REVIEW: 2 AUGUST 2023
This JMJ | World Youth Day Prayer Book is a handy global resource that encourages formation in the basics of Catholic Prayer.
We have included all the languages above to share with others. The interior gives any young pilgrims a very useful programme for beginning a Morning, Afternoon, Evening prayer routine for the entire week, allowing all who partake in World Youth Day to pray intentionally with reflections, scripture, and thematic Meditation reminders.
The prayer booklet encourages the focus of this meeting: the coming together to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of Mass, the Sacrament of Reconciliation, wonderful prayers like the Anima Christi to be uttered after the Eucharist, Holy Adoration, and the Prayer of the Holy Rosary, etc. as well as thoughts which relate to the point of the address given by Pope Francis this morning to the assembly of government officials in Lisbon at Belem.
NOTE:
The booklet does not teach the prayers of the Holy Rosary. We invite you to use the Rosary Hour Podcast resources starting with Father Peter Turrone’s lesson on the Rosary here or to link to Padre Nuno’s Rosary videos in Portuguese at nossasenhora.substack.com (still under construction).
Follow the text here:
RHP ROSARY IN PORTUGUESE: madrededeus.substack.com.
RHP ROSARY IN SPANISH: EL SANTO ROSARIO
RHP ROSARY IN GERMAN: ROSENKRANZ
RHP ROSARY IN FRENCH: LE CHAPELET
RHP ROSARY IN ENGLISH: ROSARY or theholyrosary.substack.com
OPENING CEREMONIES LINK, AUGUST 22: From the Cultural Centre of Belém, Lisbon, Portugal: Meeting of Pope Francis with the Authorities, Members of Civil Society and the Diplomatic Corps
SPEECH BY PAPA FRANCISCO w/ OPENING CEREMONIES VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/live/Wf3Ixh2CkpE?feature=share&t=9286
LEARN THE JMJ THEME SONG:
EVENTS - REPLAY THE LIVE MASS FROM AUGUST 1 IN PORTUGUESE FROM THE LITURGY OF THE WORD AND LISTEN TO THE HOMILY of HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL D. MANUEL CLEMENTE.
Watch the replay of the Gospel and Sermon of Cardinal Manuel Clemente. Transcript below.
World Youth Day 2023: Opening Mass
Homily of Cardinal Clemente
Parque Eduardo VII, Lisbon
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Dear friends who have come here from around the whole world for World Youth Day Lisbon 2023.
Welcome all!
Welcome also in the ecumenical, inter-religious, and goodwill breadth that these days have and also bring together. I desire for you all to feel “at home,” in this common home where we will live World Youth Day.
Welcome!
The Mass we are celebrating, in anticipation of the arrival of our dear Pope Francis, is that of the Visitation of Our Lady - the general motto of the World Youth Day: Mary arose and went with haste to encounter Elizabeth. It is a Gospel passage that includes us as well.
A while ago we heard:
“During those days Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.”
She set out, traveled to the hill country in haste, entered the house of Zechariah, and greeted Elizabeth - Three points I will briefly talk about in these opening words.
Mary set out.
A path that was difficult and without the means of transportation that we have available today. She was young like all of you, and had just conceived Jesus in a unique way which the Gospel recounts.
All of you also set out. For many it was a difficult journey due to the distance, the connections, and the costs that the trip required. It was necessary to bring together resources, organize activities to obtain them, and rely on solidarity which, thanks to God, was not lacking.
From near or far, you all set out. It is very important to set out. This is how we should face our own lives, as a journey to be traveled, making each day a new segment.
It is true that today many things can detain you, dear friends, with the possibility that we replace true reality, which can only be reached while on the path to others, as they truly are, by the virtual appearance of a world of choice.
A world of choice, in front of a screen and dependent on a click that changes it to different one.Virtual reality keeps us seated in front of means that easily use us when we think we use them.
Quite to the contrary, reality consists in going out to encounter others and the world as it is, both to admire and make better.
We thank the media for the possibility to get to know each other more, each of us and the world. We live through the media, and we would not know how to live any other way. We count on its support, but we do not exempt ourselves from setting out on our own, from directly contacting and verifying the reality that touches us and everyone.
The path you traveled to get here was worth the effort, and during this time you will find, in the variety of who you are and in the quality that you bring, each and every one, from each land, language, and culture. Nothing can substitute this personal path and path together, to encounter the path of all.Mary carried in her womb the “blessed fruit” that was Jesus.
Christians also carry Him, spiritually and actually because they receive Him in the Word, the sacraments, and in charity, where He offers Himself. Since we believe in Jesus as a path to God, we walk with Him to bring Him to others.
With the same impulse that led Mary, in the same Spirit that leads us, let us head out!Mary went in haste to the hill country, as we also heard.
It is no coincidence that the text speaks about Marys haste, as other Gospel passages speak of the urgency of the announcement, of the testimony, and of the continuous visitation of others, as we must do.
Dear young people, you know well that when the heart is filled, it quickly overflows.
How impossible it is to suffocate what goes in your soul, when it is truly strong and mobilizing.
Mary carried with her Jesus Himself, whom she had conceived.
And Jesus is “God is with us,” to be God with all. Because of this, she made haste to bring Him to Elizabeth, even climbing mountains.
You know this “haste” because others also made haste to come to your encounter to bring you Jesus and all He offers you from broad horizons and life in abundance.
Nor do you always need to understand the words, as is the case now, among the many languages gathered here.
Because your own eyes speak, and you feel safe and confident in the Christian atmosphere that you create together and in the simple gestures that you communicate with.
There truly is "haste in the air" which circulates among you and where you go during these days. An air in which the Divine Spirit Himself circulates, with the readiness that only God has and communicates.When I told Pope Francis that this was precisely the motto of our World Youth Day – Mary arose and went with haste... – he immediately added that yes, with haste but not anxiously.
In fact, the craving is for what we do not yet have, and we intend to be restless. The haste is different; it is to share what already carries us forward. That is why it is an urgency that is serene and without trampling. How you got here and how you will be here, bringing to others what brought you.
In this regard, I recall a passage from the first Christians, even in a society that was slow to understand them:
“...sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts. Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope, but do it with gentleness and reverence, keeping your conscience...” (1 Peter 3:15-16).
So you will be, in this haste, without anxiety, as one who shares what he has. What has brought you here and what you will take with you, is made greater by the grace of these days!
Finally, the text said that Mary entered Zechariah's house and greeted Elizabeth.
Dear friends, in this way, you too will come to one another with a true and joyful greeting.
The Gospel tells us of the joy of Mary's encounter with Elizabeth and of the mutual recognition in which it took place.
Mary's greeting was such that it awakened in her relative the exclamation that we so often repeat:
"Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!"
And Mary responded to Elizabeth's words with one of the most beautiful hymns we have sung since that moment, the Magnificat.
It is very important that this be the case with you and with everyone.
In fact, every meeting we have must begin with a true greeting, in which we exchange words of sincere welcome and full sharing.Lisbon welcomes you wholeheartedly, and so the other lands in which you have been or will be in this Portugal will also be yours.
You are welcomed by the families and institutions that have made their spaces and their service available. Thanking all of them, I see in each one the house of Elizabeth, which welcomed Mary and Jesus whom she carried with her!
Much of this is lacking even in the world we are in, when we neither notice the presence of others, nor notice others we meet the way we should.Let us learn from Mary to greet each and every person. Let us intensely put it to practice this World Youth Day. The new world begins in the newness of every encounter and in the sincerity of the greeting we exchange, so that we may be people among people, in a mutual and constant visitation! I wish you all a happy and inspiring World Youth Day!
Text courtesy of the World Youth Day Communications Office
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ECCLESIA: PORTUGAL
Here is a WYD | JMJ show by Ecclesia in Portuguese (posted recently, AUG 1)
Bookmark and review the WYD articles on their website as well as up-to-date information on JMJ here: agencia.ecclesia.pt; No live coverage on YouTube
SOURCE: https://agencia.ecclesia.pt/portal/videos/
EVENTS - FOLLOW BISHOP BARRON’S WORLD YOUTH DAY COVERAGE
VIDEO FROM AUG 1, AM IN FRENCH
Not far from here, at Cabo da Roca, are sculpted the words of the great poet of this city: “Here… where the land finishes and the sea begins” (L. VAZ DE CAMÕES, Os Lusíadas, III, 20). For centuries, people considered that place to be the end of the earth, and in some sense, it is: we find ourselves at the end of the earth because this country borders the ocean, which defines the continents. Lisbon reflects the ocean’s embrace and bears its fragrance. I too sense what the Portuguese people love to sing: “Lisbon, redolent of flowers and the sea” (A. RODRIGUES, Cheira bem, cheira a Lisboa, 1972). That sea is much more than part of the landscape: it is a call resounding in the heart of every Portuguese person: “the crashing sea, the bottomless sea, the infinite sea”, as one of your local poets has called it (S. DE MELLO BREYNER ANDRESEN, Mar sonoro). Gazing at the ocean, the Portuguese people reflect on the immense reaches of the soul and the meaning of our life in this world. I too, inspired by the image of the ocean, would like to share with you some thoughts.
In classical mythology, Oceanus is the child of the sky (Uranus): its vastness leads mortal men and women to lift their gaze on high and to rise up towards the infinite. Yet Oceanus is also the child of the all-embracing earth (Gaia), calling us to embrace with tenderness the entire inhabited world. The ocean does not merely link peoples and countries, but lands and continents. Lisbon, as an ocean city, thus reminds us of the importance of the whole, to think of borders as places of contact, not as boundaries that separate. Today we realize that the great questions facing us are global, yet we often find it hard to respond to them precisely because, faced with common problems, our world is divided, or, to say the very least, insufficiently cohesive, incapable of confronting together what threatens us all. Planetary injustice, wars, climate and migration crises: these seem to run faster than our ability, and often our will, to confront these challenges in a united way.
Lisbon can suggest a different path. It was here, in 2007, that the Treaty for the reform of the European Union was signed. That Treaty, named after this city, affirmed that “the Union’s aim is to promote peace, its values and the well-being of its peoples” (Treaty of Lisbon, Amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty Establishing the European Community, art. 2:1). Yet it goes beyond that, asserting that “in its relations with the wider world… It shall contribute to peace, security, the sustainable development of the Earth, solidarity and mutual respect among peoples, free and fair trade, eradication of poverty and the protection of human rights” (art. 2:5). Those were not only words, but milestones along the path of the European community, and are impressed on this city’s memory. This is the spirit of being together, inspired by the European dream of a multilateralism broader than merely that of the West.
According to a debatable etymology, the name Europe derives from a word meaning the direction west. What is certain is that Lisbon is the most westerly capital of continental Europe and thus speaks to us of the need to open ever broader paths of encounter. Portugal is already doing this, above all with countries of other continents that share the same language. It is my hope that World Youth Day may be, for the “Old Continent” – we can say the “Elder Continent” – an impulse towards universal openness, an impulse that makes it younger. For the world needs Europe, the true Europe. It needs Europe’s role as a bridge and peacemaker in its eastern part, in the Mediterranean, in Africa and in the Middle East. In this way, Europe will be able to make its own specific contribution in the international arena, based on the ability it showed in the last century, in the aftermath of the world wars, to achieve reconciliation and to realize the vision of former enemies joining together to work for a better future. This goal was attained by initiating processes of dialogue and inclusion and by developing a diplomacy of peace aimed at settling conflicts and lessening tensions, attentive to the slightest signals of distension and reading between the most crooked lines.
Today’s broadcast with voice over translation. Text will be included when posted on the Vatican website.