P h o t o g r a p h : N o t t i n g h a m D i o c e s a n L o u r d e s P i l g r i m a g e 2 0 2 3t a k e n b y N a o m i R o b e r t s
SUNDAY 30TH JULY 2023
I am delighted to extend a warm welcome to all of you in this, the 6th edition of our Diocesan E-Magazine It brings me great joy to reflect on the past few months and to look forward to a number of wonderful events and initiatives occurring in our diocese many of which you will read about in this publication
+Patrick Bishop Patrick McKinney
International Mass Walking Tour of Lourdes Rosary for Vocations
Blessing of the Pilgrimage Candle Marian Procession Concert with Andrea Bocelli
Day Two
Day Three
Opening Mass
Pilgrimage
Photograph
Stations of the Cross
Eucharistic Procession
Marian Procession
Day Four Mass & Anointing of the Sick Passage through the Grotto Geste de l’eau
Eucharistic Procession Reconciliation Service
Day Five
Grotto Mass
Garden Party
Marian Procession
Day Six
Closing Mass Departures
to Be Jackson and Maura Roche were awarded the Saint Hugh of Lincoln Award in honour of their service and dedication to the Lourdes Pilgrimage.
Maura and Be, a mother-and-daughter team, have been part of the Lourdes Committee for a number of years and will be hugely missed!
Make sure to see the next edition for more about this special award!
We'll chat to Georgina Taylor of Eastwood about her expert handiwork in repairing the Lourdes banner, restoring it to it's former glory!
banner is looking " sew good", once again....
World Youth Day is an international gathering of young people, ages 16 to 35, with the Pope
It takes place every two to three years in different cities all over the globe. It has a strong Catholic identity and includes a celebration of Mass with the Pope, but it’s open to all
In addition to celebrating young people, World Youth Day is an “expression of the universal Church and a powerful moment of evangelisation for the world of youth”
Thousands and thousands of young people gather together for several days with accommodations ranging from camping to lodging in churches. More than 400,000 young people have officially registered to attend and take part in the 2023 International World Youth Day celebration in Lisbon, Portugal
The most highly-attended WYD was in Manila in 1995, with more than 5 million people in attendance After celebrating Mass, Pope John Paul II had to take a helicopter to get through the crowds, trading in the popemobile.
Join in with WYD23 from home, and follow the journey of our 25 pilgrims!
World Youth Day (WYD) is the gathering of young people from all over the world with the Pope It is also a pilgrimage, a celebration of youth, an expression of the universal Church and an intense moment of evangelisation for the youth world. Although its Catholic identity is clearly evident, WYD opens its doors to everyone, no matter how close to or distant from the Church they are This year, WYD will take place on 1-6 August in Lisbon, Portugal, and for the first time in many years a group of Young Adults from the Diocese of Nottingham, accompanied by Bishop Patrick McKinney and fellow clergy, will attend World Youth Day
Follow the journey!
- Follow our social media channels for live updates from the group of pilgrims Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
- View the live stream of St Peter’s Square here to follow Pope Francis’ apostolic journey to Lisbon on August 2nd
- Throughout the week, join an "immersive experience" of World Youth Day from home, thanks to Shalom TV!
In tandem with the Marian theme of the 2023 WYD, the Official Prayer for World Youth Day calls on the intercession of Our Lady of the Visitation
Those attending World Youth Day or those joining in its celebration through prayer are invited to pray the Pilgrims’ Prayer below.
Our Lady of the Visitation, you who left in haste towards the mountain to meet Elizabeth, lead us also to meet all those who await us to deliver them the living Gospel: Jesus Christ, your Son and our Lord!
We will go in a hurry, with no distraction or delay, but with readiness and joy. We will go peacefully, because those who take Christ take peace, and welldoing is the best wellbeing.
Our Lady of the Visitation, with your inspiration, this World Youth Day will be the mutual celebration of the Christ we take, as You once did.
Make it a time of testimony and sharing, fraternisation, and giving thanks, each of us looking for the others who always wait.
With you, we will continue on this path of gathering, so that our world will gather as well, in fraternity, justice and peace.
Help us, Our Lady of the Visitation, to bring Christ to everyone, obeying the Father, in the love of the Spirit!
Amen.
"it is easy to understand why the Church attributes special importance to the period of youth as a key stage in the life of every human being"
St. PJPII, Dilecti Amici
Established by St John Paul II in his papacy, the first official World Youth Day was in 1986 in Rome, Italy The inspiration for its institution began two years earlier, at the close of the Holy Year of Redemption in 1984 JPII invited an International Jubilee of youth to celebrate Palm Sunday in St Peter’s Square, and over 300,000 youth responded
The following year (1985) was also the UN’s International Year of the Youth, and JPII again invited young people to Rome and the Vatican. He also wrote the apostolic letter Dilecti Amici, meaning “Dear Friends,” addressing it to the “youth of the world.”
Since man is the fundamental and at the same time the daily way of the Church, it is easy to understand why the Church attributes special importance to the period of youth as a key stage in the life of every human being. You young people are the ones who embody this youth: you are the youth of the nations and societies, the youth of every family and of all humanity; you are also the youth of the Church. We are all looking to you, for all of us, thanks to you, in a certain sense continually become young again So your youth is not just your own property, your personal property or the property of a generation: it belongs to the whole of that space that every man traverses in his life’s journey, and at the same time it is a special possession belonging to everyone. It is a possession of humanity itself.
A few months after writing Dielecti Amici, JPII announced the institution of World Youth Day on December 20, 1985, for the upcoming Palm Sunday in 1986 He selected Palm Sunday as it was the day “the children of Jerusalem” met Jesus upon his entrance to Jerusalem after 40 days in the desert.
Since then, there have been 15 International World Youth Day celebrations spanning the globe and drawing in millions of young Catholics from all over WYD is celebrated every two or three years, though there is always a smaller celebration in Rome in the “off” years
- St Pope John Paul II, Dilecti Amici (March 31, 1985)The 2023 World Youth Day theme comes from the Gospel of Luke After the Angel Gabriel announced to her that she would bear the Son of God (the Annunciation), Mary went to visit her cousin Elizabeth (the Visitation) Pope Francis reflected,
“Mary could have focused on herself and her own worries and fears about her new condition. Instead, she entrusted herself completely to God. Her thoughts turned to Elizabeth. She got up and went forth, into the world of life and movement.”
Pope Francis
And she went quickly as a pilgrim and a beacon of hope. Thus, the 2023 WYD theme is “Mary arose and went with haste” (Lk 1:39).
Mary did not turn inward but outward to encounter her cousin Elizabeth, following God’s desire for her life.
“In these troubling times, when our human family, already tested by the trauma of the pandemic, is racked by the tragedy of war, Mary shows to all of us, and especially to you, young people like herself, the path of proximity and encounter. I hope and I firmly believe that the experience many of you will have in Lisbon next August will represent a new beginning for you, the young, and – with you – for humanity as a whole.”
On July 30th, after the recitation of the Angelus, Pope Francis addressed the faithful, asking them to accompany him "with prayers on the trip I will make to Portugal, starting next Wednesday, on the occasion of World Youth Day."
The Holy Father also referred to the theme of World Youth Day (WYD) Lisbon 2023, mentioning the "many young people from various continents" who "experience the joy of encountering God and their brothers and sisters, guided by the Virgin Mary, who, after the Annunciation, rose and left with haste."
Many young people there are on their way to Lisbon to participate in the largest gathering of young people from all over the world with the Pope.
Pope Francis will be in Portugal from August 2nd to August 6th, on the occasion of World Youth Day (WYD) Lisbon 2023, marking the longest visit of a Pope to Portugal.
Pope Francis
Pope Francis will arrive on August 2nd and be present at World Youth Day until his departure on August 6th. View the live stream of St. Peter’s Square here to follow Pope Francis’ apostolic journey to Lisbon on August 2nd.
Wednesday, 2 August - Rome – Lisbon
07:50 Departure by airplane from Rome/Fiumicino International Airport to Lisbon
10:00 Arrival at Figo Maduro Air Base in Lisbon
10:00 Official Welcome
10:45 Welcome Ceremony at the main entrance of “Palácio Nacional de Belém”
11:15 Courtesy Visit to the President of the Republic at “Palácio Nacional de Belém”
12:15 Meeting with the Authorities, Civil Society and the Diplomatic Corps in the Cultural Centre of Belém
16:45 Meeting with the Prime Minister at the Apostolic Nunciature
17:30 Vespers with Bishops, Priests, Deacons, Consecrated Persons, Seminarians and Pastoral Workers in “Mosteiro dos Jerónimos”
Thursday, 3 August - Lisbon – Cascais – Lisbon
09:00 Meeting with University Students at “Universidade Católica Portugesa”
10:40 Meeting with Young People of Scholas Occurrentes in the Scholas Occurrentes Headquarters in Cascais
17:45 Welcome Ceremony in "Colina do Encontro" (Parque Eduardo VII)
Friday, 4 August - Lisbon
09:00 The Holy Father Celebrates the Sacrament of Reconciliation with some Young People at “City of Joy” (Jardim Vasco da Gama)
09:45 Meeting with Representatives of some Aid and Charity Centres at“Centro Paroquial de Serafina”
12:00 Lunch with Young People at the Apostolic Nunciature
18:00 Stations of the Cross with Young People in "Colina do Encontro" (Parque Eduardo VII)
Saturday, 5 August - Lisbon – Fatima – Lisbon / Loures
08:00 Departure by helicopter from Figo Maduro Air Base in Lisbon to Fatima
08:50 Arrival at Fatima Stadium
09:30 Recitation of the Holy Rosary with Sick Young People at the Chapel of Apparitions of the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima
11:00 Departure by helicopter from Fatima Stadium to Lisbon
11:50 Arrival at Figo Maduro Air Base in Lisbon
18:00 Private Meeting with Members of the Society of Jesus at “Colégio de S. João de Brito”
20:45 Vigil with Young People at “Campo da Graça" (Parque Tejo)
Sunday, 6 August - Lisbon / Loures – Oeiras – Rome
09:00 Holy Mass for World Youth Day at “Campo da Graça" (Parque Tejo)
16:30 Meeting with the Volunteers of WYD at “Passeio marítimo” in Algés
17:50 Farewell Ceremony at Figo Maduro Air Base in Lisbon
18:15 Departure by airplane from Figo Maduro Air Base in Lisbon to Rome
22:15 Arrival at Rome/Fiumicino International Airport
The preparation, realisation and dynamism of each World Youth Day, inaugurated by the meeting of young people from all over the world with the Pope, is entrusted to patrons, that is, to canonised saints or saints in the process of canonisation, acting as a reference for the youth community
For WYD Lisbon 2023, the Local Organising Committee proposed 13 patrons, women, men and young people who, as the Cardinal Patriarch affirms, “have shown that life in Christ fills and saves the youth of all times”. These patrons, who were born in the city hosting WYD or come from other countries, are models for young people.
St John Paul II, St John Bosco, St Vincent, St Anthony, St Bartholomew of the Martyrs, St John de Brito, Blessed Joana of Portugal, Blessed João Fernandes, Blessed Maria Clara of the Child Jesus, Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, Blessed Marcel Callo, Blessed Chiara Badano, Blessed Carlo Acutis
"And then I understood... Our Lady really wanted me to go to Lisbon"
Lisa, Daisy, Hazel, Sophiya, Amy, David, Hugh, Will, Joel and Daniel from Derby Deanery; Nicosia and Christopher from Leicester Deanery; Andreia from North Lincolnshire Deanery; Kyla, Alex and Chidiogo from Nottingham Deanery; Jeannie from Sherwood Deanery; Daniel and Luke from South Lincolnshire Deanery
“IhavewantedtogotoWYDsinceI was 18 and I have always prayed that it would be possible. In recent months I prayed the Rosary every evening,withthisasmyintention.
When I applied for the visa for Portugal,whichIneedbecauseIam not a British citizen, I encountered so many difficulties and I resigned myself to giving up, but then the visa arrived and I understood, Our Lady really wanted me to go to Lisbon".
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“Forme,goingtoLisbonmeansmeetingupwith other young Catholics and feeling less alone. Even though I attend the parish and participate in a group of young adults, it is not easy to find otherCatholicsofmyageinsociety,”
"It is the first time at WYD and it is nice to be able to share this experience with my wife, Sophiya”.
The pilgrims gathered bright and early on Monday 31st July at St Peter's Church in Hinkley before boarding a coach to Stansted Airport where they met more members of the group before flying to Lisbon.
Bishop Patrick, seminarian Michael Furey, and Fathers Neil Peoples, Liam Carpenter and Lim Gamsi are also part of the group
“It's my first time at a World Youth Day. I will learn from the group of young adults I accompany. Young People are the present of our Church and, as a bishop, I am very interested in knowing their hopes, their desires for our diocese,andfortheChurchmoregenerally".
Join us as we take a journey through the life-story and Mission of Venerable Mary Potter at the Heritage Centre. Explore the inspiring exhibits and learn how this remarkable woman founded the Little Company of Mary Sisters in Nottingham and how her cause continues on the road to becoming a Saint.
During the Heritage Open Days event, we extend a warm invitation to all parishioners of the Nottingham Diocese to participate in the self-guided tours and experience the profound heritage we cherish: https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting/event/ mary-potter-heritage-centre
Also, for more details about the Heritage Centre, you can visit our website: https://www lcmsisters org uk/ or follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?
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Little Company of Mary
Heritage Centre, 32 Regent St, Nottingham NG1 5BT
Venerable Mary Potter, Autobiographical Notes
“What a beautiful life is ours! I strive to tell you some of the beauties of the past, but there will be more beauty in the future”
If you would like to help the centre in any way – by making a donation of good quality used baby clothes – please ring Carol To make a financial donation, the details of our bank account are as follows: St Colette's PSC, Natwest Beeston, 51-70-06 83740716 On behalf of women in difficult circumstances, and their babies, thank you for your support
Based in St Paul’s, Lenton, Nottingham the centre offers support for women across the Diocese of Nottingham, which covers most of the East Midlands.
pregnancy testing kits
baby supplies
nappies
toiletries
clothes
cots
pushchairs
baby baths
help with finances
emotional support
The centre also offers help to new or single mums who may be struggling financially.
If you know someone who is unexpectedly pregnant and in need of support, please contact:
07547 795315 or scpscuk@gmail.com
Team 2023-2024.
This opportunity would suit young adults aged 18-24 who want to share their faith with young people whilst living in a community of other likeminded young adults A year on team will help you grow as a person, develop skills in group work and leadership and help you to grow in your faith. You will receive high quality professional training and support to equip you for youth ministry in a fun, vibrant and faith filled setting. Applications for next year are also now open (2024-2025)
Apply at www.ndcys.com or email director@ndcys.com for more information and a conversation.
