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World Youth Day - Sidney 2008
About World Youth Day
World Youth Day 2008 is to be hosted in Sydney Australia. It is a chance for millions of Catholics aged between 18 - 30 yrs to come together along with Pope Benedict to have a journey, both physically and spiritually in celebrating their Catholic Faith. The official Vatican dates are 15th to 20th July 2008, however Hallam diocese planning to go 5 days early and will spend five days in a diocese in Melbourne.
You can find out more about the days in the Diocese by viewing the WYD Videos using the play our tubes links on the WYD Melbourne Days in the Diocese Site.
Parish Representatives
There will be four young people representing St Ann's and St Mary's at this event :- Marianne Down, James and Chris Neal and Sarah Garvey.
An Information leaflet has been prepared by our Parish Representatives containing the itinerary for the Pilgrimage and information about forthcoming fundraising events.
500,000 Young People meet Pope Benedict in Lorretto
Marianne Down from St Ann's was one of 500,000 young people (mainly Italian) who met with Pope Benedict in Lorreto recently as part of the preparations for WYD2008. You can read extracts from the Pope's message to Italian and worldwide youth using the following link:- Lorreto Sept 2007
Fundraising and Finance Update
The WYD08 Pilgrimage costs £2,000 per person. This price includes accommodation, travel, food, registration fees and most importantly a contribution to the solidarity fund. By each of our representative going we are enabling a young person in the third world to share and take part in this fantastic experience
A list of planned fundraising events is provided below, please support these and if anyone would like to help with or has any any other fundraising ideas please contact Marianne (email: sbccmdown@rgfl.org) .
Diary Dates
23rd November - Race Night at St Ann's
14th December - Youth Christmas Play at St Mary's
15th December - Youth Christmas Play at St Ann's
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