(Vatican Radio) World Youth Day may now be over, but the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who attended will take back with them memories that will last a lifetime.Dorata Abdelmoula is the Spokesperson for WYD Krakow 2016. Looking back over the event, she told Lydia O’Kane that this World Youth Day was a place of encounter where many friendships were made.Listen: “Even now we can see many families together with pilgrims, like giving the last farewell and saying goodbye and we see they are really attached to each other . We can observe these relationships that were born during this time of exchange. So this is one proof that World Youth Day was really a real encounter that will for sure bring some fruits that will last for a long time”, she said.Asked about what she thought were some of the highlights of this event, Dorata noted, that young people were really inspired by the Pope’s words.“Well for sure those highlights are the Pope’s s...
(Vatican Radio) World Youth Day may now be over, but the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who attended will take back with them memories that will last a lifetime.
Dorata Abdelmoula is the Spokesperson for WYD Krakow 2016. Looking back over the event, she told Lydia O’Kane that this World Youth Day was a place of encounter where many friendships were made.
Listen:
“Even now we can see many families together with pilgrims, like giving the last farewell and saying goodbye and we see they are really attached to each other . We can observe these relationships that were born during this time of exchange. So this is one proof that World Youth Day was really a real encounter that will for sure bring some fruits that will last for a long time”, she said.
Asked about what she thought were some of the highlights of this event, Dorata noted, that young people were really inspired by the Pope’s words.
“Well for sure those highlights are the Pope’s speeches and within those speeches every young person will find another sentence that will inspire him…”
The next World Youth Day will be held in Panama in three years’ time and the WYD spokesperson said, ”we are in touch with the local organizing committee from Panama, first of all to share with them our experience…”
Dorata also said, it is also of way all sharing with them what the universal is because, she added, for her and her colleagues the three years of preparation was about discovering and recognizing the community of the universal Church.
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