About 6,000 young people from England, Austria, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Spain, United Sates, Italy, Ireland, Low Countries, Lithuania, Palestine, Romania, Sweden and France are present at the Lourdes sanctuary in these days, for celebrating the World Youth Day 2008. On Saturday evening, they gathered for a prayer wake, "like in Sydney". "Resurrected Christ said the archbishop of Bordeaux, Card. Jean-Pierre Ricard can only be witnessed by the Christians, His disciples and witnesses". The wake was a great time for communion with the World Youth Day in Sydney, because the young people in Lourdes prayed together with the youth gathering in Sydney together with the Pope, during the wake broadcast through recorded transmission. At the end of the meeting, Cardinal Ricard publicly announced that the community accepted the sacrament of the confirmation for twelve of the young present. They will receive the sacrament during the Holy Mass, which is going to be celebrated at the sanctuary today.
