Welcome to Dioceses of Queensland
Official WYD Pilgrimages
I would like to invite young people from Queensland to respond to Pope Benedict’s invitation to meet him in Madrid, Spain for World Youth Day 2011.
It has been my privilege to travel with young people to four World Youth Days and each time I have seen the amazing effect it has had on them. I am convinced that the World Youth Days have an extraordinary capacity to change the lives of young people. We witnessed this through World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney and now we have another opportunity to participate in this marvellous event.
I invite you to join with other young Australians, and thousands of others from around the world, as they pilgrimage to Madrid. Join with me as we embark on this extraordinary journey of faith together.
Archbishop John Bathersby
Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane
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YOUTH & CHILDRENS MINISTRY
ARCHDIOCESE OF BRISBANE
Tel: 07 3109 6800
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World Youth Day in Madrid will provide the young people of the Archdiocese of Sydney with the opportunity to continue to live the extraordinary experience we had in Sydney in July 2008. We invited the youth of the world to join us and Pope Benedict in Sydney. Now we will join the youth of the world responding to the invitation of Pope Benedict to meet with him in Madrid, Spain, in August 2011.
On Palm Sunday in St Peter’s Square 2009, youth representatives from Australia formally handed over the World Youth Day Cross and Icon to youth representatives from Spain.
It concluded what was a great privilege for the Church here in Australia.
Now I invite you to join with young people from every diocese in Australia who will be pilgrims to Spain to attend the World Youth Day in Madrid in August 2011.
