Aug 1 (B, L, D): Lisbon, WYD Opening Mass
Notes have been updated for August 1.
Daily Notes:
Chaperones must do room checks at 10:30 p.m. each night
Chaperones must ensure their youth have received their medications and that these medications have been recorded.
Breakfast is from 6:30 a.m. -10:30 a.m.
We will have our 6 diocesan flags set up at 4:30 p.m. to be ready to lead our group for the opening Mass of WYD. We will meet by the soccer field next to Hotel Roma.
It will be very challenging to all stay together on our walk over. Youth and chaperones must stay together in your small groups. It is really important that youth are always with their chaperones. Please communicate this to your youth.
Young adults, please help keep our group together.
Check in with your bus captain when you arrive at section C14 and confirm that your small group (both youth and young adult) is all present for the opening Mass.
Itinerary:
MORNING
Breakfast at Hotel
Free time to explore Lisbon
AFTERNOON
Lunch on your own using World Youth Day Meal Vouchers
4:30 p.m. Meet
Walk to Edward VII park.
7:00 PM
WYD Opening Mass at Edward VII Park “Colina do Encontro”
EVENING
Dinner on your own using World Youth Day Meal Vouchers
Overnight in Lisbon
Reminders for Group Leaders:
Day 5- Tuesday, Aug 1st
- Breakfast at Hotel Roma (6:30AM-10:30AM)
- Chaperones should ensure youth have received their medications and that they have been recorded on the pilgrim’s medication forms.
- Each small group can decide what they will explore this morning.
- Reminder that all Chaperones must be with their youth at all times while we are outside a building during WYD. Youth must never be travelling about without their chaperones.
- Young Adults must at a minimum travel with a buddy, always communicating to their Young Adult Point Person their plans/location.
- Spend the morning and afternoon touring Lisbon complete with its unique spiritual and historical sites
- Lunch via WYD Vouchers
- City of Joy begins at 9am until 4pm at Belem (“Cidade da Alegria”) will be located near the Tower of Belém and the Jerónimos Monastery, just southwest of Lisbon. Two parts of the City of Joy:
- ~The Vocational Fair is a place where young pilgrims can encounter various movements, associations, communities, religious orders and projects of a social nature.
- ~Reconciliation Park is a place where pilgrims can make an encounter with the merciful Christ through the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
- Youth Festival begins – Diverse programming (locations all over the city!)
- Meet at 4:30pm by the soccer field next to hotel Roma to walk to Opening Mass (walk should take about 1 hour placing us at Edward VII Park at around 5:30pm)
- In the late afternoon, head to the Opening Mass (begins at 7pm.) for World Youth Day, hosted by the Patriarch of Lisbon (Archbishop Dom Manuel Clemente)
- Location- Colina do Encontro
- No hotel check in! Staying in Hotel Roma.
- Dinner via WYD Vouchers (pilgrims could pick up dinner before (or after) Mass).
- Chaperones must do a “Room Check” at 10:30 p.m. They should ensure that their youth are at the hotel by about 10:00 p.m. each night of the pilgrimage.
- Chaperones should ensure youth have received their medications and that they have been recorded on the pilgrim’s medication forms.