World Youth Day 2005

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XX World Youth Day 2005
File:World Youth Day 2005.svg
Date August 16, 2005 (2005-08-16)-
August 21, 2005 (2005-08-21)
Location Cologne, Germany
Type Youth festival
Theme We have come to worship Him (Matthew 2:2)
Song Venimus adorare eum


The 20th World Youth Day (German: XX. Weltjugendtag Köln) was a Catholic youth festival that started on August 16 and continued until August 21, 2005 in Cologne, Germany. It was the first World Youth Day and foreign trip of Pope Benedict XVI, who joined the festival on August 18. This meeting was decided by the previous pope, John Paul II, during the Toronto World Youth Day of 2002. The theme was "We have come to worship Him" (from Matthew 2:2).

About 400,000 young people from 200 countries attended during the week, and more than 1,000,000 came for the weekend. They were joined by about 600 bishops and cardinals, as well as by 6,600 reporters.

The Pope's Apostolic Journey to Germany

Pilgrims in front of Cologne Cathedral
Pilgrims in Bonn
Pilgrims watch Pope Benedict XVI celebrating Mass on big screens

Originally, Pope John Paul II was to attend the World Youth Day in Cologne. As he died earlier in 2005, it was instead his successor Pope Benedict XVI's first apostolic journey. Most pilgrims to the World Youth Day made their plans to come while John Paul II was still Pope, and had hoped to see him. Before Pope Benedict XVI led the central mass, he met with several politicians and others.

August 18

August 19

August 20

The Pope issued a plenary indulgence for those attending World Youth Day, with a partial indulgence available to all who pray fervently, with a contrite heart, that Christian youth

  • be strengthened in the profession of the Faith;
  • be confirmed in love and reverence towards their parents; and
  • form a firm resolution to follow "the holy norms of the Gospel and Mother Church" in living out their present or future family life, or whatever vocation they are called to by God.

August 21

  • An estimated 1,000,000 people, after camping outdoors all night, joined Pope Benedict XVI for the concluding Mass in the vast Marienfeld near the village of Kerpen. Participants too far away to see the pope in the vast field watched the services on more than 15 large television screens.[2]

Attending groups

Numerous interest groups attended World Youth Day: schools, universities, church groups, and new movements were all well represented by their attendance.

Photographic gallery

  • Pilgrims waiting for the Pope in the Rhin

  • Pilgrims

  • Meeting with the Pope

  • Pilgrims at the doors of the Cologne Cathedral

  • Arrival of the Pope to Cologne crossing the Rhin

  • Flag with the logo of the WYD 2005

  • Opening's party at Bonn

  • Map of Marienfeld

  • Reveller at Aachen

  • Opening festivities

  • Cheering pilgrims wade into the Rhine during the pope's ride on the Rhine in Cologne

  • Thousands of sleeping Pilgrims in the night of 20th/21st August 2005 at 3:00 in the morning

See also

References

  1. ↑ Closing Mass Homily
  2. ↑ CNN Archived September 12, 2005 at the Wayback Machine

External links

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