(from our correspondents in Sydney) We publish the second SIR daily comment on the 23rd WYD ” ” ” “The image, indeed the reality of the Cenacle that Benedict recalled in his message for the 23rd WYD is taking on form and substance in Sydney and in many other places. It is confirmed by the words, images and comments that proliferate in the press, on TV and in radio.” “"Each Christian community must constantly derive inspiration from this icon of the nascent Church – writes the Pope -. Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not mainly the result of skilfully formulated and ‘efficient’ pastoral programmes and methods, but the outcome of constant community prayer".” “For a culture of efficiency and pragmatism the words might sound wholly abstract. But not for the young whose dreams and plans are enclosed in the cage of mediocrity.” “To arrive in Sydney from all over the world and to experience Sydney in the remotest corners of the globe is the great dream that is being turned into a living reality, not a flight from reality but a total immersion in history, an expression of the shared will to contribute to the building of a world in which in everyone may live with dignity and hope.” “The first voices being raised from Australia and from the other continents are confirming the icon of a universal Cenacle in which the new generations are gathered together with the successor of Peter. Ready together to take to the deep!
