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Key Personnel
Archbishop:
Archbishop Jose S. Palma
Chairman:
Rev. Msgr. Arthur R. Navales, PC
Vice-chairman:
Rev. Fr. Kit Sestoso
Youth Leader:
Krishna Jacalan
Address:
2nd Floor, Cardinal Rosales
Pastoral Center (Patria de Cebu),
P. Burgos St., Cebu City 6000
5th Archdiocesan Youth Congress

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The official stand of the Caholic Church; choosing life and rejecting the RH Bill.
Prayer of the Youth
on the occasion of the CBCP Year of the Youth

Almighty Father, God of life and love,
through time and ages, You love us.
You trust and choose us
to participate in Your saving work.

Bless us, Your young people,
with Your grace.
Give us the gift of living life to the full
by encountering Your Son
in a personal way
and sustaining a relationship with Him,
by learning what life truly is
from His words and works,
from His filial relationship with You,
And by living in true and fruitful
communion with You
and with one another.

Empower us through Your Holy Spirit
to stand firm in the faith.
May we bring our fellow young people
closer to You so that together,
we become agents of change
and builders of a society of justice and
solidarity, love and peace.

Enable all of us:
Your young people,
together with those ministering to us
in the Church, in families and in society,
to make a decisive response
to our universal vocation;
to live fully and fruitfully
by doing everything in love
as we follow Jesus Christ
along the path of genuine trust in You.

In communion with the rest of the Church,
we pray that this CBCP Year of the Youth
become a kairos time
for the youth ministry of Your Church
and a new springtime for us,
Filipino youth: a special period
of growing in Your grace
through our living in youthful holiness
and through our effort to reach out
as a Church to those waiting for Your love.

Together with our Blessed Mother,
our model in giving oneself
entirely to Your will,
we lift this prayer to You
in Jesus Christ, Your Son,
our Friend, Brother and Lord,
in the Power of the Holy Spirit,
now and forever. Amen.
Local WYD

CHRONICLE
of
WORLD YOUTH DAYS

 
1984
Rome. St Peter’s Square, Palm Sunday (15 April 1984)
International youth meeting on the occasion of the Holy Year of the Redemption.
The Pope presents and entrusts young people with the Cross (22 April 1984)

1985
Rome. St Peter’s Square - Palm Sunday (31 March 1985)
International youth meeting on the occasion of International Youth Year.
The Holy Father addresses an Apostolic Letter to the youth of the world (31 March 1985)
He announces the institution of World Youth Day (20 December 1985)

1986
1st World Youth Day
Theme: "Always be prepared to make a defence to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that is in you" (1Pt 3:15)
Celebration (diocesan level): Palm Sunday (23 March 1986)

1987
2nd World Youth Day
Theme: “We ourselves have known and put our faith in God’s love towards ourselves’ (1Jn 4:16)
Celebration (international level): Buenos Aires, Argentina (11-12 April 1987)

1988
3rd World Youth Day
Theme: “Do whatever he tells you’ (Jn 2:5)
Celebration (diocesan level): Palm Sunday (27 March 1988)

1989
4th World Youth Day
Theme: “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life’ (Jn 14:6)
Celebration (international level): Santiago de Compostela, Spain (15-20 August 1989)

1990
5th World Youth Day
Theme: “I am the vine, you are the branches’ (Jn 15:5)
Celebration (diocesan level): Palm Sunday (8 April 1990)

1991
6th World Youth Day
Theme: “You have received a spirit of sonship’ (Rom 8:15)
Celebration (international level): Czestochowa, Poland (10-15 August 1991)

1992
7th 7th World Youth Day
Theme: “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel” (Mk 16:15)
Celebration (diocesan level): Palm Sunday (12 April 1992)

1993
8th World Youth Day
Theme: “I came that they might have life, and have it to the full” (Jn 10:10)
Celebration (international level): Denver, USA (10-15 August 1993)

1994-1995
9th World Youth Day
Theme: “As the Father sent me, so am I sending you” (Jn 20: 21)
Celebration (diocesan level): Palm Sunday (27 March 1994)
10th World Youth Day
Celebration (international level): Manila, Philippines (10-15 January 1995)

1996
World Youth Day
Theme: “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life” (Jn 6:68).
Celebration (diocesan level): Palm Sunday (31 March 1996)

1997
13th World Youth Day
Theme: “The Holy Spirit will teach you all things” (cf Jn 14:26 )
Celebration (diocesan level): Palm Sunday (5 April 1998)

1999
14th World Youth Day
Theme: “The Father loves you” (cf. Jn 16:27)
Celebration (diocesan level): Palm Sunday (28 March 1999)

2000
World Youth Day - Youth Jubilee
Theme: “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (Jn 1:14)
Celebration (international level): Rome, Italy (15-20 August 2000)

2001
16th World Youth Day
Theme: “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me” (Lk 9:23)
Celebration (diocesan level): Palm Sunday (8 April)

2002
17th World Youth Day
Theme: “You are the salt of the earth ... you are the light of the world” (Mt 5: 13,14)
Celebration (international level): Toronto, Canada (23-28 July 2002)

2005
20th World Youth Day
Theme: “We have come to worship Him.” (Mt.2:2)
Celebration (international level): Cologne, Germany (August 2005)

2008
23rd World Youth Day
Theme: “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.” (Acts 1:8)
Celebration (international level): Sydney, Australia (July 15-20, 2010)

2009
24th World Youth Day
Theme: “We have set our hope on the living God” (1Tim.4:10)
Celebration (diocesan level): Palm Sunday (5 April)

2010
25th World Youth Day
Theme: “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” (Mk. 10:19)
Celebration (diocesan level): Palm Sunday (28 March)

2011
26th World Youth Day
Theme: “Rooted and built up in Jesus Christ, firm in the faith.” (Col. 2:7)
Celebration (international level): Madrid, Spain (August 2011)

 
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