Meet Our Young Pilgrims

21 January 2008

This week cliftondiocese.com brings you a special podcast series introducing the Clifton Diocese to our young people taking part in World Youth Day. 

World Youth Day is the largest youth event in the world.  It takes pace in Sydney from 15 to 20 July and around 15 young people from around the Clifton Diocese are taking part. 

The wonderful event draws young people from around the world together to build bridges of friendship and hope between continents, peoples and cultures.

This year’s World Youth Day is the twenty-third to be celebrated, and marks Pope Benedict XVI’s first visit to Australia. 

Young people from the Clifton Diocese will meet thousands from throughout the world making a pilgrimage in faith, meeting, and experiencing the love of God. They’ll have an opportunity to rediscover their baptismal calling and the centrality of the sacraments of the Eucharist and reconciliation, and so discover a new apostolic zeal to witness more fully the Gospel in the modern world. All in the context of the beauty of Australia and the fantastic hospitality of the Australian people!

Our pilgrims are joining with new friends from the Plymouth and Portsmouth dioceses for the event of a lifetime – they depart on 8 July. 

We spoke with ten of our pilgrims at a recent meeting to finalise details of the trip. You can hear from them as cliftondiocese.com brings you a podcast a day throughout this week.  Listen to and download today’s podcast in the multimedia panel on the right.

Today, we talk with Antonia and Rachel from Holy Family parish in Patchway, Bristol.  They’re both really excited about being part of World Youth Day and hope to get a lot from the amazing experience and, in particular the, special Australian welcome!

Amazingly two places have become available for this fantastic pilgrimage to World Youth Day!  If you’d like to find out more call Ronnie Mitchinson on 0117 902 5595.

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