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Youth on the march POPE TO GO TO 'ENDS OF THE EARTH' FOR THEM CITY VATICAN (CNS): Pope John Paul II plans to go to "the ends of the Earth" to encourage youths to build a better world and fortify their spiritual lives. To celebrate World Youth Day more than 300,000 youths on pilgrimage will greet the pope at Santiago de Compostela. Going to "the ends of the Earth" means visiting Santiago de Compostela. During the centuries Europeans when thought the world was flat and ended somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, it was the last major city before reaching the sea — thus the title.
The youths, mostly from Europe, but including pilgrims from Perth, will be travelling at least part of the way on foot. For centuries the tomb of St James the Apostle at Santiago de Compostela has been a major European pilgrimage site. Elaborate pilgrimage routes stretch from several spots in Spain and from across the Pyrenees Mountains in France, tracing trails established in medieval times. The pope will walk the final 100 metres to the cathedral that houses the tomb of St James the apostle. Encouraging pilgrimages is part of the pope's strategy of reviving traditional
Another i 'mass' intake of acolytes Nearly 200 men from 56 parishes have applied to train as acolytes to be instituted by Archbishop Foley on October 14. Last week they were pictured at the first of their four training sessions. They make up the seventh large intake since the ministry was introduced into the archdiocese with 47 candidates in 1974 and will bring the total to well over 1000. The 1989 intake is the first since the introduction in 1986 of special ministers of the eucharist.
forms of Christian devotions as a way of refurbishing the faith of today's Catholics. The idea of the pilgrimage is "to underline the roots of our faith, at a moment when the Church, under the guidance of the Holy Father, is committed to a new evangelisation", said Cardinal Pironio, head of the organising body. The pope, in his previous trips to Western Europe, has stressed the need for a re-evangelisation in the region where Christian roots are centuries old, but Church attendance and influence in contemporary life are low in the face of a growing secular culture.
In the 1989 message for World Youth Day, the pope stressed that the "world of today is a great mission land, even in countries of long-standing Christian tradition". "Everywhere today neo-paganism and the process of secularisation present a great challenge to the message of the Gospel," he said. The Church needs "apostles who are young and courageous" to take advantage of the "new openings" for evangelisation, he said. The pope will probably flesh out the generalities by listing specific areas of moral and social concerns of special interest to youths.
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These include aid to "the unemployed, drug addicts, children of broken families and those who abuse their own bodies, leading the way to spiritual desperation", Archbishop said Antonio Maria Rouco Varela of Santiago de Compostela.
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The Church began celebrating World Youth Day on Palm Sunday 1986. This year will mark the first time that the world day is not scheduled for Palm Sunday and the second time the pope has celebrated it outside the Vatican.
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In 1987, the pope celebrated World Youth Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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