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#PopeFrancis missed step, fell at Mass in Poland today. He quickly was helped up, continued w/o problem. (CNS photo)

 
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#PopeFrancis at Jasna Gora calls St. John Paul & St. Faustina "meek & powerful heralds of mercy."

 
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A son's gaze & gift of gold rose for Our Lady of Czestochowa. #PopeFrancis.

 

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Pope falls in Poland, is not hurt
Published on Jul 28, 2016

Pope Francis falls July 28 after tripping on a shallow step as he was celebrating Mass at Poland's most revered Catholic shrine during his World Youth Day visit. The 79-year-old pope quickly resumed walking and showed no evidence of injury.

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Pope tells WYD pilgrims to show mercy by building bridges
2016-07-28 Vatican Radio

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis told hundreds of thousands of World Youth Day pilgrims on Thursday to share God’s merciful love by building bridges and by tearing down barriers, walls and barbed wire. Speaking during a welcome ceremony in the giant Blonia Park, close to Krakow’s city centre, the Pope said "mercy has a youthful face" which can move us beyond our comfort zones and make us ready to embrace everyone. A merciful heart, he said, is able to be a place of refuge for the homeless, sharing bread with the hungry and welcoming refugees and migrants.

Recalling the legacy of Saint John Paul II, who began the tradition of World Youth Days, Pope Francis praised the “enthusiasm, dedication, zeal and energy with which so many young people live their lives”. He warned them not to be tempted by “dark paths” or to “run after peddlers of fond illusions”.

Instead, he urged them to be like Mary, Martha’s sister in the reading from St Luke’s Gospel, who made space to listen to Jesus in the midst of her busy life. The Pope told the young people to imitate Mary of Bethany and Mary of Nazareth by welcoming Jesus, by helping the poor and by listening attentively to other cultures and peoples, "even those we are afraid of because we consider them a threat".

Please find below the English translation of Pope Francis’ prepared address to young people at the welcome ceremony of WYD in Blonie, Krakow,

Dear Young Friends, good evening!

At last we are together!  Thank you for your warm welcome!  I thank Cardinal Dziwisz, the bishops, priests, men and women religious, the seminarians and those who have accompanied you.  I am also grateful to all those who made it possible for us to be here today, who “went the extra mile” so that we could celebrate our faith.
 

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Pope's advice to newlyweds
28/07/2016 21:59

Young people on Thursday evening chanted and sang songs awaiting Pope Francis to come to the window of the Archbishop’s residence in Krakow and when he came out, the Square below erupted with cheers.

This evening’s remarks were directed at newly married couples and the Pope jokedInizio modulo, they say today there is a good group here, in this square, newlyweds.”

He commended young men and women for having the courage to commit to marriage and because he said “it is not easy to form a family.”

The pope said that he sometimes is asked how married couples can surmount varies difficulties and he suggested that three words are always used, pardon, thanks, and forgiveness.
 

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Friday, July 29, 2016 -- World Youth Day 2016, Poland
(Activities are in Polish time)

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/07/25/wyd-2016-full-schedule/

World Youth Day 2016: full schedule
posted Monday, 25 Jul 2016

 
Friday, 29 July 2016

Pope’s visit to Auschwitz (9.30am)

Pope’s visit to Birkenau (10.30am)

Pope transfers from Kraków-Prokocim (4.30pm), where he will visit University Children’s Hospital

Way of the Cross with youth in Krakow’s Błonia Park (6pm)

After dinner, the Holy Father will appear in the Papal Window in the Bishops’ Residence in Krajow to greet the faithful gathered in the square
 

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Friday, July 29, 2016

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Pope Francis in Poland: Visit to Auschwitz - Birkenau Concetration Camp
Scheduled for Jul 29, 2016
Visit to Auschwitz - Birkenau Concetration Camp

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Pope Francis in Poland: Visit to the Children's University Hospital
Scheduled for Jul 29, 2016
Visit to the Children's University Hospital (UCH) in Prokocim, Krakow

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Pope Francis in Poland: Way of the Cross
Scheduled for Jul 29, 2016
Way of the Cross with the young people at Jordan Park in Kraków's Błonia

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Pope Francis visits Auschwitz-Birkenau museum and memorial
29/07/2016 11:46

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Friday morning paid an emotional visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and museum, the site of a Nazi concentration and extermination camp where more than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were put to death during the Second World War.

Prior to his visit to the camp, the Pope decided he would not give a speech, saying he preferred to enter alone, in silent prayer. “I would like to go to that place of horror without speeches, without crowds -- only the few people necessary,” he explained. “Alone, enter, pray. And may the Lord give me the grace to cry.”

For the Pope, this visit to the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was to be one of silence and prayer.

The only sounds to the heard were the shutters of the ever present cameras as a solemn Pope Francis walked alone through the infamous gate that reads “Arbeit macht frei” – “work sets you free”.

The Pope was then driven in an electric car to the notorious block 11, also known as the death block where Franciscan priest, Fr Maximillian Kolbe was killed after offering up his life for a complete stranger 75 years ago. You could hear a pin drop as the Pope sat in prayer with his eyes firmly closed in this place of suffering.
 

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In silence Pope visits Auschwitz and writes plea for forgiveness for 'so much cruelty'
29 July 2016

First visit to notorious Nazi concentration camp by Pope with no personal connection to Second World War

Pope Francis paid a sombre and moving visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp this morning where he prayed at execution spots and appealed for God’s mercy and forgiveness. His trip to the former Nazi concentration camp - where more than a million people, mostly Jews, were killed during the Second World War - took place in almost complete silence. Instead, the Pope left a written message in a book of remembrance which stated simply: “Lord, have mercy on your people! Lord, forgiveness for so much cruelty!”

But what was lacking in words was made up for in symbolic moments including an encounter with ten of those who were imprisoned in the camp and the chanting by a Rabbi of Psalm 130 which begins with the line: “out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord.” 

On a sunny morning Francis, who is the third Pope to visit Auschwitz, walked slowly through the notorious gate of the camp under the Nazi slogan “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Makes you Free”) before sitting down to pray.
 

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Pope Francis visits Children’s Hospital near Krakow
2016-07-29 Vatican Radio

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis visited on Friday the Pediatric Hospital of Prokocim near Krakow and in an address to patients and staff said he wished that “We Christians could be as close to the sick as Jesus was, in silence, with a caress, with prayer.”  Sadly, the Pope continued, “our society is tainted by the culture of waste” and the victims of this “are the weakest and frailest and this is indeed cruel." He thanked all those working at the hospital for the love and compassion shown towards the young patients, describing this as “the sign of true civility, human and Christian: to make those who are most disadvantaged the centre of social and political concern.”

Please find below an English translation of the Pope’s greeting to patients and staff at the Children’s Hospital:

Dear brothers and sisters,

                A special part of my visit to Kraków is this meeting with the little patients of this hospital.  I greet all of you and I thank the Prime Minister for his kind words.  I would like to draw near to all children who are sick, to stand at their bedside, and embrace them.  I would like to listen to everyone here, even if for only a moment, and to be still before questions that have no easy answers.  And to pray.
 

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Pope in Krakow: The Way of the Cross defeats sin, evil and death
2016-07-29 Vatican Radio

(Vatican Radio)The theme of this Way of the Cross for World Youth Day was the path of mercy and this solemn event opened in Blonia Park in Krakow to the anthem of the Jubilee Year performed by a talented youth orchestra and choir with Pope Francis looking on.

In a prelude to the mediations for this evening, a girl in Marian like clothes took to the stage creating a design drawn in sand which revealed the face of Christ.

All through the Via Crucis the World Youth Day cross was brought to each station by a different group of young people which included a group of refugees from Syria, a former homeless couple from Poland and nuns from the missionaries of charity; all symbolising the works of mercy.

Many of the stops on the way to Calvary were artistically re-enacted through the medium of dance and at the 10th station an acrobat took to the sky where the cloth wound around him fell away to symbolise Jesus being stripped of his garments.

At the 12 station and to the strains of Samuel Barber’s, “Adagio for Strings”, Jesus on the Cross at Blonia Park took his last breath and the worlds’ youth here fell silent
 

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Pope asks young people to be of service to humanity
2016-07-29 Vatican Radio

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis told young people that the world needs those who do not live to live their lives “halfway” and who like Christ are ready to spend their lives serving the poorest and most vulnerable. He said the Way of the Cross is Jesus’ style and is a way that fears no lack of success, ostracism or solitude. The Pope was speaking at the conclusion of a Way of the Cross event attended by young people taking part in the World Youth Day gathering in the Polish city of Krakow. During his address to the young people, the Pope had affectionate words of greeting for “our brothers and sisters from Syria who have fled from the war.” The Syrian refugees were among a group of about 20 young people helping to carry the Cross during the first station. The others included a Polish couple who until recently lived on the streets and young people from Italy, Argentina, Ukraine and Pakistan.

Please find below a translation into English of the Pope’s prepared remarks at the Way of the Cross event:

I was hungry and you gave me food,
 I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
 I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me,
 I was in prison and you visited me (Mt 25:35-36).
 

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Pope: Cruelty and suffering but Jesus is near
2016-07-29 Vatican Radio

(Vatican Radio) From the window of the Archbishop’s residence on Friday evening, Pope Francis recalled this day as one of pain. “Friday, he said, is the day when we remember the death of Jesus and with the young people we prayed the Way of the Cross: the suffering and death of Jesus for all of us.”

So many people, the Pope noted, “so many people are suffering: the sick; those who are at war; the homeless; the hungry; those who are doubtful in life, who do not feel happiness,”…
 
In the afternoon, he continued, “I went to the children’s hospital. There too, Jesus suffers in so many sick children: I always ask myself that question, "Why do children suffer?". It's a mystery. There are no answers to these questions ...”

Recalling his morning at Auschwitz-Birkenau, he said, “how much pain, how much cruelty! Is it possible that we men, created in the likeness of God, we are able to do these things?
 

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Saturday, July 30, 2016 -- World Youth Day 2016, Poland
(Activities are in Polish time)

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/07/25/wyd-2016-full-schedule/

World Youth Day 2016: full schedule
posted Monday, 25 Jul 2016

 
Saturday, July 30 2016

Pope’s visit to Chapel of St Faustina Kowalska (8.30am)

Transfer by Popemobile to the Divine Mercy sanctuary (8.45am)

Pope’s passage through the Holy Door of Mercy (9am)

Liturgy of reconciliation with the participation of youth (9.15am), with the Holy Father hearing the confessions of five young people

Holy Mass in the John Paul II Sanctuary with priests, consecrated persons and seminarians from Poland (10.30am)

Pope’s lunch with Archbishop of Krakow and 12 young people (1pm)

Pope’s arrival at Campus Misericordiae and passing through the Door of Mercy with five youth representatives (7pm)

Prayer vigil with youth (7.30pm)
 

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Saturday, July 30, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNufpV_KvEc
Pope Francis in Poland: Visit to the Shrine of Divine Mercy in Kraków
Scheduled for Jul 30, 2016
Visit to the Shrine of Divine Mercy in Krakow

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Pope Francis in Poland: Holy Mass in St John Paul II Shrine in Kraków
Scheduled for Jul 30, 2016
Holy Mass with Priests, Men and Women Religious, Consecrated Persons and Polish Seminarians gathered in St John Paul II Shrine in Kraków

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUh2FUQ4Nq4
Pope Francis in Poland: Prayer Vigil
Scheduled for Jul 30, 2016
Prayer Vigil with the young people in Campus Misericordiae

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Pope prays at chapel of St Faustina, greets young people
2016-07-30 Vatican Radio

(Vatican Radio) On Saturday morning, Pope Francis paid a visit to the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy in Krakow. He began his visit at the Chapel of St Faustina Kowalska, where he was greeted by the Superior General of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy and the Superior of the Convent. While there, he blessed a large picture of the Divine Mercy, and later prayed before the tomb of St Faustina. At the conclusion of his visit, the Holy Father signed the guest book, adding, in Spanish, the words, “I desire mercy, and not sacrifices.”

Leaving the convent, the Pope arrived at the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy. From the terrace, he greeted the young people gathered in the “field of confessions”: “The Lord today wants us to feel His mercy even more deeply,” the Pope said. “Never distance yourself from Jesus! Even if, because of our sins and our failings, we feel we are the worst, He prefers us that way – thus His mercy spreads out. Let us all profit this day by receiving the mercy of Jesus.”
 

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Pope Francis hears confessions at Divine Mercy sanctuary
2016-07-30 Vatican Radio

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis heard the confessions of young pilgrims to World Youth Day in Krakow on Saturday. The moment of recollection and sacramental reconciliation took place at the Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy just outside the host city on the morning of the penultimate day of the week-long gathering.

The Holy Father heard the confessions of five different young people.
 

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Homily for Mass at the Shrine of St. John Paul II: Full text
30/07/2016 10:36

(Vatican Radio) On Saturday morning, at the Sanctuary of St John Paul II in Krakow, Pope Francis offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for priests, religious men and women, consecrated persons, and seminarians.

Below, please find the prepared text of the Pope's homily for the Mass:

Homily of His Holiness Pope Francis

Mass with Priests, Religious, Consecrated Persons and Seminarians

Krakow, 30 July 2016

The words of the Gospel we have just heard (cf. Jn 20:19-31) speak to us of a place, a disciple and a book.
 

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Pope Francis has lunch with young pilgrims in Krakow
2016-07-30 Vatican Radio

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday had lunch with a dozen young people serving as volunteers for World Youth Day in the Polish city of Krakow.

The private encounter took place in the residence of the Archbishop of Krakow, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, following a morning Mass for priests and religious in the shrine dedicated to the Polish pope, Saint John Paul II.

The young men and women invited to join the Pope for lunch came from all the different continents and included representatives from New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Italy, Columbia, as well as the host nation, Poland. After the meal, they invited him to pose for a selfie with them as a souvenir of this very special occasion.
 

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Pope WYD Vigil: Leave your mark on the world
30/07/2016 21:37

(Vatican Radio) From early on Saturday morning, World Youth Day pilgrims caught trams and buses from central Krakow to bring them as close as possible to the Campus Misericordiae. From there, they walked a further four kilometres to get to these grounds in order to be with the Holy Father at this ever popular vigil. Some of them carried mats to lie on for the long evening ahead, while others made sure they had food supplies to the ready. Under the searing heat of the sun pilgrims protected themselves with hats and sunglasses. There were also sprinkler systems dousing the young people with water and the voice of a loud speaker advised the mass of youth to take advantage of the zones for bottled water.

Once inside, the many thousands of young people in the camp joyously waved flags and sang songs, and when the Pope arrived, this field of pilgrims erupted with cheers.

One of the highlights of this vigil was when the Holy Father walked hand in hand with young representatives from 5 continents through an especially constructed Holy Door made from ribbons and wood which read, Jesus, I trust in You.

Then to their delight and their surprise the group joined Pope Francis in the Pope mobile making their way to the especially constructed alter, a replica of that in Blonia Park.

In the second of 5 themed scenes, a video entitled, “hope to those discouraged” showed different images of suffering in the world, beginning with the bombing of the twin towers on 9/11.