Hi! I'm Erin from New York and I just joined this community. Unfortunately I won't be attending WYD this year. I was supposed to go but I couldn't come up with the money (My church is going on a pre-extension to Fatima and Lourdes and Paris so it was a bit more expensive ( Read more... )

Hello to everybody!!!
My name is Maria, i'm from Russia and i'm going to Koln to participate in World Youth Day. I'm realy excited about it as it'll be my first experience of communicating with so many people from all over the World. Hope to meet a lot of new friends there.

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Hi everyone! i just joined today, so i dunno if this topic has already been brought up before but i was just wondering what kinds of clothes is everyone bringing? i can't figure out what kind of pants to bring...since we will more than likely have to handwash our clothes we are in need of something that does not take too long to dry, but also is ( Read more... )

23 days!!!!!!
Holy SMOKES!

So my question for anyone who reads this:

What are you doing for "last minute" preparations for our upcoming pilgramage?

You can get this on the WYD homepage, so I thought I'd get one for this community :)

Though I guess it would be better in the community info ;)

edit: it doesn't seem to work :( does anyone know if you can use flash in lj posts? on my homepage it works just fine

Last week my diocese had a meeting for all the people going to WYD to get all the important info and facts to know. They talked about the pilgrimmage to the vigil site and they were saying how it was a really long walk and that they have mass at the hotel if you can't make it to the vigil site. Anyone know how long this walk is or a rough estimate ( Read more... )

I went to a retreat last weekend for the people who are going in my group to World Youth Day. It was a sort of preparation/get-to-know-each other type deal. It actually wasn't very fun for me (mostly because everyone was younger than me and some of the leaders and I disagree with some Church views, especially when it comes to our new Pope) but I ( Read more... )

wow! Only like 50 days left ( Read more... )

Yesterday, there was some WYD food testing event in Bonn. More or less by chance (I had already forgotten about it), I walked by with a friend so we decided to try what the WYD food tastes like ( Read more... )