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of the week: Stations of the Cross on Friday make confession available throughout the
evening, a walking journey to the final liturgy program. Make sure confession guides are
site and an evening prayer vigil on Saturday, available for those who may need a refresher.
the Concluding Mass on Sunday. Are there
ways that you can utilize technology to pray Music and Food
with the Holy Father and the international Music is a powerful tool for prayer and
community live? Alternatively, could you celebration that also serves to highlight the
record and watch portions of the international local culture of the WYD host country. In
event? Seek to incorporate new prayer forms what ways can you highlight the music or
or moving images of faith as a part of the day. cultural traditions of Panama? Can you
Consider holding a candlelight Mass or incorporate in some way the various WYD
Eucharistic procession, praying with icons, theme songs over the years? How can you
venerating the cross, using multiple languages, also highlight the musical talent of your local
etc. Be creative! community at the stateside event?
PLANNING TIP
Consider featuring one of the songs from the
World Youth Day Concluding Mass in the
Did you know there is an official
World Youth Day cross and icon
that travels the world in preparation
for World Youth Day? Consider
making a replica for your local
celebration or using another
significant local symbol of faith and
sharing it around parishes in your
Diocese in preparation for your
local pilgrimage.
stateside Mass (if these songs are known
beforehand), or use a devotional or traditional
hymn from Central or Latin America. Every
WYD also includes an official theme song
composed in the language of the native
country; it may also be available in several
other languages. For World Youth Day 2019,
the theme song is “Hágase en mí, según tu
Another major component of the palabra,” or “Let it be done to me, according
international gathering is the accessibility of to your Word,” which can be found online at
the Sacrament of Reconciliation at various www.panama2019.pa. Another popular WYD
locations and on almost all the days of WYD. song is “Jesus Christ, You Are My Life” by
Invite several confessors to be part of your Fr. Marco Frisina (which has been used at all
stateside event; you can either have a special WYDs and other Vatican celebrations of
time on the schedule for reconciliation or young people since 2000). Consider using
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