WYD IN SYDNEY: RECONCILIATION AND SPIRITUALITY ALL ACROSS TOWN

(From our correspondents in Sydney) Many places have been offered to the young people in Sydney to rediscover and celebrate the Sacrament of reconciliation, first and foremost the "Reconciliation Centre", in the city’s Exhibition Centre, the big fair facility that also hosts the international press centre. Other accessible venues are the "Opera House", one of Sydney’s best-known landmarks, with its sails standing out over the bay, the "Domain" in Barangaroo, the pavilions of the "Randwick", which on Saturday and Sunday will host the vigil and Mass with the Pope, and the Stations of the Cross in town. Over these days, Sydney has become a veritable centre of Christian spirituality, thanks to religious communities from all over the world. The community of Taizé offers prayers and songs in Saint James’ Church, the Marist community a Eucharistic adoration at Saint Patrick’s Church Hill, adoration and mission for the Emmanuel community at the Sacred Heart Church in Darlinghurst. The liturgy of the hours is prayed with the nuns of the Good Samaritan of the order of Saint Benedict, while the friars propose their "simple prayer" at Saint Joseph’s Edgecliff.