The arrest on Sunday took place just days before Pope Francis comes to Poland to meet with hundreds of thousands of young people from around the globe for celebrations of the World Youth Day. The pilgrims received a blessing from Archbishop José H. Gomez at the Mass and were given specially designed WYD bracelets from My Saint My Hero Jewelry, for pilgrims to share prayers with someone at home or in Poland during WYD. This week they will be making their way to Krakow.
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Meanwhile Motherwell Diocese, who have young people traveling from St Augustine’s Parish, Coatbridge, Holy Family Church, Mossend and the Motherwell branch of Gonzaga Project, who arrived on the 23, have met with other world groups and been enjoying the sunny climes in the Polish dioceses of Bielsko-Biala an Katowice, spending their first day at the Divine Mercy Shrine and the newly opened St John Paul II Basilica and Mass in the residency.
“Up to now we have got more than 560,000 registered pilgrims who have declared their presence”.
Economic systems should not focus exclusively on consumerism but also on “the full realisation of each individual and genuine development”, Pope Francis said on Monday.
Today, the radio version of Crux debuts on the Catholic Channel, Sirius XM 129, live from Krakow, Poland, smack in the middle of World Youth Day 2016, expected to draw somewhere between one and two million people over the next week.
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On Twitter, the Bishop of Rome tweeted blessings for those en route to Krakow for the event.
