Deacon-structing Funerals – Part 2 | The Vigil

Sunday, April 7, 2019

Deacon Pedro

Deacon Pedro continues his exploration of funerals by looking at the rites and prayers that happen between the death of a loved one and the funeral itself.

WYD Panama 2019: Pope Francis’ address at the Saturday Prayer Vigil

Saturday, January 26, 2019

Salt + Light Media

Pope Francis encourages pilgrims at WYD in Panama to have the courage to say "yes" with Mary and to take part in God's love story in this world.

Prayer Vigil in the Chapel of the Apparitions

Friday, May 12, 2017

Salt + Light Media

This evening the Holy Father went to the Chapel of the Apparitions in the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima where the Blessing of the Candles took place. After a moment of silent Prayer and meditation, the Pope blessed the candles, then he pronounced welcoming words for the pilgrims and introduced the Prayer of the […]

Photo of the Day: WYD Rio Vigil

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Alicia Ambrosio

Pope Francis watches as young people dramatize building a church, during the WYD Rio 2013 vigil on Copacabana Beach. The performance was inspired by God’s call to St. Francis “rebuild my church” and symbolized the constructive role of young people in today’s church. — (CNS Photo/ Paul Haring)

Reliving WYD 2013 – Vigil on Copacabana Beach

Friday, August 16, 2013

Alicia Ambrosio

The final days of World Youth Day Rio were an exercise is letting God surprise us all. Days of rain made the field at Guaratiba unusable and the final events were moved to Copacabana Beach. Cariocas (residents of Rio) are used to having parties on the beach. They have two giant parties there every year: […]

WYD – Walking route to Cuatro Vientos

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Alicia Ambrosio

Alicia gives us the basics about today’s walking route that will take pilgrims from downtown Madrid to Cuatro Vientos Air Base for the prayer vigil and closing Mass with Pope Benedict XVI.

WYD – Cuatro Vientos will be a giant celebration

Friday, August 19, 2011

Salt + Light Media

World Youth Day in Madrid ends this weekend with a giant celebration. The setting for it all is Cuatro Vientos, an air base whose length is equivalent to 48 football fields–an area capable of hosting the over one million people expected to attend the events with the Holy Father. Fr. Javier Cremades, in charge of […]

WYD – All about the shower facilities

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Alicia Ambrosio

Madrid in August is hot, hot, hot. We’re talking two-showers-a-day hot. However, most pilgrims will be housed in group accommodation venues which means either a school gym, a community centre, or a parish hall. All spaces can sleep a large group, but don’t normally house young people for a full week. These accommodation venues have been outfitted […]

April 23, 2011

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Salt + Light Media

[singlepic id=112 w=150 h=104 float=right] Holy Saturday is traditionally a time of waiting, of vigil, but the Easter Vigil tonight is not a pre-empting of Easter – it is Easter! Join Pedro, Jenna, Lawrence and guest Andrew Santos for a special Easter edition of S+L Radio – with scripture readings and songs about Easter, resurrection […]

Pope connects creation and salvation at Easter Vigil

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Kris Dmytrenko

In an Easter Vigil liturgy that included six readings, Pope Benedict chose to focus on the first one. In explaining the selection of the reading from the first chapter of Genesis, the Pope asks, “Is it really important to speak also of creation during the Easter Vigil? Could we not begin with the events in […]