The President of the Community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, has announced that the date fixed for the next World Youth Day will be from 15 to 21 August 2011 and secured the support of regional authorities to ensure the success of an eventual visit Pope.
“I am sure that Madrid will be up to greet the Pope as he deserves at the next World Youth Day to be held in the Spanish capital in 2011,” Aguirre said, commenting on the announcement that Madrid has been chosen as the venue for the next WYD.
The President announced that a possible papal visit to Madrid will be held in the third week of August, citing the words of Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela, stressed that the event “will have a major impact on the social, cultural and general of Spain.”
Aguirre spoke “very happy” with the choice of Madrid as the venue of the next World Youth Day and said “this is a great opportunity for young people in Madrid, whether Catholic or non-Catholics, because the Pope is a global authority. “
THE CARDINAL ROUCO IS EMOTIONS
TO THE POPE AND SAYS THAT THEY ARE
“A GREAT GIFT FOR THE CHURCH OF GOD IN SPAIN”
July 20, 2008 .- The archbishop of Madrid and President of the Spanish Bishops Conference, Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, has been moved after the announcement that the archdiocese of Madrid will host the World Youth Day in 2011.Pope Benedict XVI has made known after the recitation of the Angelus, at the end of the closing Mass of the XXIII World Youth Day that has taken place since last July 15 until today in Sydney.
Cardinal Rouco Varela has said that “it is a great gift of God to the Church in Spain, from today, we must bring the will and best efforts in the organization, taking into account that there is a show of masses, but an opportunity to live the gospel and that those involved in it are witnesses of the Lord in the world. “
As is tradition, the official announcement of the venue of the next WYD Pope has done to thousands of young people gathered to attend the final mass. This time, it has done on the outskirts of Sydney, the Randwick Racecourse and Centennial Park, at 12.45 hours in Australia (4.45 in the morning hours in Spain).
For its part, the Almudena Cathedral, one of the four venues where thousands of young people celebrate the World Youth Day, simultaneously and in communion with Sydney, the news was received with special joy.There, with young people, following the conclusion has been throughout the night (Spanish time), one of the auxiliary bishops of Madrid, Monsignor Franco.
The other two assistants Madrid, Bishop and Bishop Martinez Camino Herráez are with the Card. Rouco, and along with 14 other Spanish bishops, accompanied by five thousand young people in our country who pilgrimage to Australia. The bishops of Madrid, Alcala and Getafe, in Sydney, welcomed Pope Benedict XVI, after that the Holy Father pronounced the name of Madrid as the venue for WYD 2011.
The World Youth Day, an initiative of John Paul II
The World Youth Days were born in 1984 at the initiative of Pope John Paul II.The first took place in Rome on Palm Sunday of that year, as part of the celebrations of the Holy Year Jubilee sector of the Redemption (1983-1984).
Given the success of the call and the urgency of the Church Pastoral Youth, John Paul II instituted the permanent fixing that, initially, there would be a year in Rome and the following year in a city in the world, each rather different, and trying to alternate between Europe and other continent.It also found that the World Youth Day in Rome coincides, as far as possible, on Palm Sunday.Was not fixed, but a date for celebration elsewhere.
So far there have been 23 World Youth Day, all presided over by the Pope. The current pontiff, Benedict XVI took over at the World Youth Day which was held in Cologne (Germany) from 15 to 20 August 2005.
Santiago de Compostela was the site in 1989
So far, Santiago de Compostela was the only Spanish city which had hosted a World Youth Day.It was then Archbishop of Santiago, Cardinal Rouco Varela.It was in 1989 and around 500,000 young people packed the Mount Joy around John Paul II. Other cities that have hosted this celebration, before Sydney were Cologne (Germany) in 2005, Toronto (Canada) in 2002; Paris (France) in 1997, Manila (Philippines) in 1995, Denver (USA), 1993; Czestokowa (Poland) in 1991, and Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1987.
Escrito por jmj2011 
