Pope Liu fourteen raises hundreds of thousands of Catholic youth at the Bible Festival

Hundreds of thousands of Catholic youth were poured into a vast field on the outskirts Pope Liu XIV This represents his first great meeting with the next generation of Catholics.

Liu arrived with a helicopter while the sun sets over the Tor Vergata field and immediately boarded the open seamobel for the long rings through the pilgrims who wave science. They were already celebrating there for hours, where they created at night camps while annoying trucks and water cannons were emerging to cool them at 85f temperatures.

“It is a spiritual thing, you can only try every 25 years,” said Francisco Michel, Hajj of Mexico. “As a young man, and I have an opportunity to live in this meeting with the Pope, I feel a spiritual growth.”

Over the past week, young Catholic teams from all over the world flowed to Rome for their special jubilee celebration, in the holy year in which 32 million people are expected to descend to the Vatican to participate in Hajj for centuries to the Catholic seat.

Young people were wandering in the streets paved with gravel in colorful shirts, reaching pink hymns and singing with the guitars, pongo drums and sparkling trades. Using their flags as a rod to protect them from the sun, they acquired a full square for Christian rock concerts and inspiring conversations, and they stood for hours in the Circus Maximus to admit their sins to 1000 province who provide the secret in ten different languages.

the date The first American Pope He was chairing the vigil on Saturday night. He was then returning to the Vatican at night and returning to one bobille and the Mass on Sunday morning.

Youth Day in the mini world, after 25 years

All this is characterized by the atmosphere of the World Youth Day, which is the Woodstock Catholic Festival, which was opened by Saint John Paul II and made it famous in Rome in 2000 in the same Tor Fergata field. Then, before estimated about 2 million people, John Paul told the young pilgrims that they were “morning guards” at the dawn of the third millennium.

The officials initially expected 500,000 young men this week, but Liu hinted that the number could reach one million.

“I have spoiled a bit, but this is what is nice in the jubilee,” said Chloe Jobor, a 19 -year -old Catholic Catholic and was in Rome with a group of more than 200 young Beatitudes, a France -based charismatic group.

She said, for example, it took two hours for dinner in Kentucky Fried Chicken, who was overwhelmed by Friday nights. The Salesian School, which was shown on the housing group, is an hour away on the bus. But Jobbour, like many in Rome this week, did not mind discomfort: all of this is part of the experiment.

She said, “I do not expect it to be better than that.

There was one tragedy before the start of the protest. The Vatican confirmed that an 18 -year -old Egyptian woman, who was determined as Baskali Rafifi, died during the Hajj, and according to the heart attack. On Saturday, Leo met her group and his condolences for her family.

It has disturbed the Romans, but they are tolerant

These Romans, who have not escaped the attack, were inconvenient to additional pressure on the incomplete public transportation system in the city. Residents participate in social media posts from a spray by the Romans in children who turn a busy subway platform and busy buses, which led to the delay and complexity of their transfer to work.

But the other Romans welcomed the enthusiasm that the youth brought. Prime Minister Georgia Meloni welcomed a video clip, which admires the “Festival of Faith, Joy and Hope and the extraordinary hope” created by the youth.

Rina Feon, Roma, who lives near the Tor Fergata field, said on Saturday to find a group of police outside her home as part of a huge operation, which was installed to maintain peace. “You think faith, religion is difficult, but this is evidence that it is not.”

Verdon had already put plans to take an alternative road to the house on Saturday afternoon, which would require an additional half -mile, because she fears that the “invasion” of children in her neighborhood will be disrupted by the usual bus road. But she said she was more than happy to make the sacrifice.

“She is thinking about invasion as a negative thing. But this is a positive invasion,” she said.