Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa signed up for the international event a few days after Pope Francis.
Photo: Agência ECCLESIA/HM.
Newsroom (01/11/2022 14:30, Gaudium Press) After Pope Francis registered as the first pilgrim for World Youth Day (WYD) Lisbon 2023, last Tuesday 25, it was the turn of the President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, to register for the event, which will take place in the Portuguese capital between August 1 and 6 next year.
Registrations open
The Portuguese president visited the Local Organizing Committee and registered as a pilgrim on the official WYD platform. On the occasion, he invited the young people to “mark this week in your calendar and move forward.
Interested pilgrims can register for the event, individually or in groups, through an online form that can be accessed by clicking here and is available in five languages: Portuguese, English, Italian, French, and Spanish.
Photo: Agenzia ECCLESIA/HM.
Motto for WYD Lisbon 2023
The slogan chosen for this edition of WYD is taken from the Gospel of Luke: “Mary got up and went with haste” (Lk 1:39). Pilgrims coming from more than 50 dioceses in Brazil are already preparing for the event, which was instituted by Pope John Paul II and gathers youth from all over the world.
Because of the restrictions imposed by the Covid 19 pandemic, the organizers have postponed the World Youth Day, originally planned for 2022, by one year. This edition will take place August 1-6, 2023 in the Portuguese capital.
World Youth Day
Created in 1985 by St. John Paul II, World Youth Day consists of a gathering of thousands of young Catholics from various dioceses around the world. These events take place every two to three years, and each time the Pope chooses a new country to host the event.
The first edition took place in 1986, in Rome, and the other editions of WYD have been held in the following cities: Buenos Aires (1987), Santiago de Compostela (1989), Czestochowa (1991), Denver (1993), Manila (1995), Paris (1997), Rome (2000), Toronto (2002), Cologne (2005), Sydney (2008), Madrid (2011), Rio de Janeiro (2013), Krakow (2016) and Panama (2019). (EPC)
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