Calling the week-long pilgrimage, a “gift from God,” Bishop Edward J. Burns joined more than 1,000 pilgrims from the Diocese of Dallas in Lisbon, Portugal Aug. 1-6 for World Youth Day 2023.
fter many of the 1.5 million young people gathered in Lisbon’s Tejo Park waited for hours in near 100-degree weather to participate in the World Youth Day vigil with Pope Francis Aug. 5, the pope asked them, “Have you ever been tired?” Even when tempted to “throw in the towel” or stop along the journey of life, the pope said, the young people must pick themselves up and walk toward joy. “Joy is not hidden, it’s not kept under key, we have to look for it,” he said, “and that is tiring.”
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“Now is the God-given time of grace to sail boldly into the sea of evangelization and of mission,” Pope Francis told Portuguese bishops, priests, religious and pastoral workers after praying vespers at the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon Aug. 2, the first day of his trip to Portugal.
When Pope Francis arrives in Lisbon for World Youth Day 2023, there will be plenty of pilgrims from the U.S. ready to greet him — close to 29,000. Nearly 1,000 of those pilgrims will be from the Diocese of Dallas.
Hundreds of local young Catholics will join hundreds of thousands of their peers from around the world as they gather Aug. 1-6 in Lisbon, Portugal for World Youth Day 2023.