Folks Getting Ready for World Youth Day in Madrid
Posted On August 5, 2011
On the 16th of August World Youth Day will begin with over 400,000 young people slated to attend. But the week before this activities will have already begun. Students from Fordham University. Thirty-Eight members of the Fordham community head to Spain Aug. 4 for a three-week pilgrimage in the footsteps of St. Ignatius. Their celebration of Catholic faith starts on Aug. 5 with MAGIS 2011, a three-day pastoral experience organized by the Society of Jesus in Spain, where students have been gathering from around the globe at the Sanctuary of Loyola, St. Ignatius’ childhood home in the mountains near the Basque country. From there, the groups will spend a week in various locales in Spain or Portugal doing social service, ecology and spiritual pilgrimage. The event is being co-sponsored by many religious organizations, among which are the Sisters of Charity, the Inigo Network, the Xaverian Missionaries and other lay movements. Currently 30,000 are set to attend World Youth Day from the USA.
