World Youth Day in Rio: Program #0547 for Wednesday, July 17, 2013

World Youth Day in Rio

Today’s topics: World Youth Day in Rio

Summary of today’s show: Millions of youth from around the world will be gathering in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, next week for World Youth Day, including more than 160 who will be traveling from the Archdiocese of Boston. Scot Landry and Fr. Matt Williams are joined by Chuck and Amber Kelley, a father and daughter from Townsend who will be traveling to their first World Youth Day, to discuss what they expect and to preview the events they will participate in and to explain the World Youth Day plenary indulgence.

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Today’s host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Matt Williams

Today’s guest(s): Chuck and Amber Kelley

Links from today’s show:

• Official World Youth Day Rio website
• Archdiocese of Boston’s World Youth Day Rio website
• Official Prayer for World Youth Day

Oh Father, You sent Your Eternal Son to save the world, and You chose men and women, so that through Him, with Him and in Him, they might proclaim the Good News of the Gospel to all nations. Grant us the necessary graces, so that, by the power of the Holy Spirit, the joy of being the evangelists that the Church needs in the Third Millennium may shine in the faces of all young people.

Oh Christ, Redeemer of humanity, the image of Your open arms on the top of Corcovado, welcomes all people. In Your paschal offering, You led us, by the Holy Spirit, to encounter the Father as His children. Young people, who are nourished by Eucharist, who hear You in Your Word and meet You as their brother, need your infinite mercy to walk along the paths of this world as disciples and missionaries of the New Evangelization.

Oh Holy Spirit, Love of the Father and of the Son, with the splendor of Your Truth and the fire of Your Love, shed Your Light upon all young people so that, inspired by their experience at World Youth Day, they may bring faith, hope and charity to the four corners of the earth, becoming great builders of a culture of life and peace and catalysts of a new world.

Amen !