This extraordinary experience is still in my eyes and in my heart. I had a chance to meet the young face of the Church: it was a sort of multicolour mosaic, made up of boys and girls coming from all over the world, all joined by the sole faith in Jesus Christ". With those words, the Pope, during his latest Angelus in July, at Castelgandolfo, recalled the World Youth Day in Sydney, by ideally tracing the most important stages. "These meetings said Benedict XVI in relation to the appointment conceived by John Paul II are the stages of a great pilgrimage through our planet, to demonstrate that the faith in Christ makes us all sons of the sole Father in Heaven, as well as constructors of the love civilization". According to the Pope, the typical characteristic of the meeting in Sydney "was the realization of the centrality of the Holy Spirit, the protagonist of the life of the Church and the Christians". Among the aspects of the Australian event, the Pope mentioned the catecheses in various languages, defining them "times for reflection and contemplation, which were necessary for the event not to be a simple external demonstration. The event actually left a deep sign in consciences". (To be continued)
