Reaction of the Patriarch of Lisbon to know that WYD will be in Portugal

Vatican City

ANNOUNCEMENT OF WYD 2022

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Prefect of the Dicastery of the Laity, Family and Life, made the announcement at the end of the closing Mbad of the 2019 Panama WYD: "As the Holy One said "Father, we must now go into practice, all that we have learned.The next World Youth Day will take place in Portugal."

Patriarch of Lisbon

The Patriarch of Lisbon said: "This is great news and a happy confirmation of something we have been waiting for a long time in Portugal". "Our 20 dioceses have long dreamed of organizing World Youth Days in Portugal and it will now be in Lisbon," he added.

The Patriarch also invited young people from all over the world to participate in the next WYD Lisbon 2022, especially in countries "most linked by history and tradition":

"We spoke in the field of Portuguese-speaking episcopal conferences, the last time in Cape Verde, we saw in these days another opportunity to strengthen the links between us, and this will happen of course. Brazil to Angola, Guinea to Mozambique, Cape Verde to Santo Tomé, the Portuguese diaspora itself to the world … all of which will be very present at Lisbon Day ".

This land is waiting for you

During the meeting with the volunteers, a few minutes before leaving for Rome, a young woman said to the pope: "Lisbon is a beautiful city, full of hills with small chapels and many churches, old and beautiful. their devotion to the Virgin confirms us as the Land of Santa María … It is the land that awaits you with open arms, and we want to tell you that our joy is already immense, knowing that the days will come when the streets and squares of Portuguese dioceses will be full of young people. "