Monday, July 21, 2008

Bishop of Madrid thanks Pope for choosing Madrid as the next city for WYD

“I would like to express my gratitude in the name of the diocese of Madrid for choosing our city,” said Juan Antonio Martinez, Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid and Secretary of the Episcopal Conference, at a press conference today at Radisson Plaza Hotel, after the Papal announcement at the Final Mass.

“We greatly appreciate this gesture of the Holy of Father and we give thanks to the Providence and the God of history that made it possible for the next WYD to be celebrated in Madrid.”

“We are ready to prepare it and we know the meaning that is needed to organise a WYD. We have experience from organising the WYD in Santiago, the 4th WYD, which was the second to be celebrated outside of Rome.”

“We see the WYD as a significant event in the life of the Church with a pastoral meaning and consequences in the cultural life of the State, and we are sure that those will be very positive lasting impacts,” he told reporters in Spanish.”

The cardinal said that WYD activities will take place in the third week of August in 2011. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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