Brazilians welcome Pinoy World Youth Day delegates 'with tears'
Host families in Brazil
welcome "with tears" the Filipino pilgrims attending the World Youth
Day celebration there, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines
(CBCP) said on Thursday.
In a news report posted on its website, the CBCP said some of
the Brazilian host families shed tears when they welcomed the Filipino
delegates pm July 13 at Surui, Diocese of Petropolis.
“Akala mo yung Pope na yung dumating, nakakataba ng puso,”
it quoted RJ Moriones of the CFC–Youth for Family and Life sub-group as saying.
The Sao Nicolau parish even organized a motorcade to welcome
the Filipino pilgrims, he added.
The Filipino pilgrims will be staying in the parish for a
week before the World Youth Day starts on July 23.
Tradition started by Pope John Paul II
According to a report of the Agence France-Presse, the World
Youth Day events that Pope Francis will attend in Brazil later this month are a
tradition started by the John Paul II during his charismatic papacy.
The first official WYD was held in 1986, although it had been preceded by two previous mass gatherings of young people from around the world in Rome.
It was followed the following year by a WYD in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, where the current pope was archbishop until his election in March.
The gatherings have since been organized in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, Poland, Spain, and the United States.
The attendees are typically from local parishes and Catholic youth associations, but increasing numbers of non-believers or non-practising Catholics also attend, brought by friends or responding to invitations announced on social media.
The gatherings are often held outdoors and have a celebratory atmosphere far from the more sombre surroundings of a church. They have sometimes been described as a "Catholic Woodstock"—the famous 1969 music festival.
The first official WYD was held in 1986, although it had been preceded by two previous mass gatherings of young people from around the world in Rome.
It was followed the following year by a WYD in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, where the current pope was archbishop until his election in March.
The gatherings have since been organized in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, Poland, Spain, and the United States.
The attendees are typically from local parishes and Catholic youth associations, but increasing numbers of non-believers or non-practising Catholics also attend, brought by friends or responding to invitations announced on social media.
The gatherings are often held outdoors and have a celebratory atmosphere far from the more sombre surroundings of a church. They have sometimes been described as a "Catholic Woodstock"—the famous 1969 music festival.
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