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The NC Way Prepares for WYD
50,000 Neocatechumenals are scheduled to meet in Germany to invite many young people to World Youth Day.

Madrid, May 16, 2011.- They aren't interested in the famous, top-fermented beer Altbier, or in Königsallee, the luxurious shopping street. The over 50,000 youth from all around Europe, belonging to the Neocatechumenal Way, who will meet next May 29 in the German city of Düsseldorf, have another mission: to evangelize and invite people to World Youth Day in Madrid.

Only a few weeks remain before the great celebration of youth takes place, and young people in the Church want to give it one last big push. How will they do it? By bus, beginning from their homes, they will pilgirmage throughout Germany on mission, until they reach Düsseldorf's Sprit Arena stadium. Each group will evangelize in a specific city and invite the people in the streets and plazas to Madrid in August. They will bring banners and be accompanied by seminarians who will translate everything they say into German.

"We'll carry, as the Way always does, guitars to pray and sing. We will give our testimony to everyone," explains Ana, a 17 year old from Valencia who will participate in the event. "I am sure that we will help people to rethink many things, and I hope to talk about how happy I am in the Church and how much World Youth Day has always helped me," states Guillaume from Paris.

Although the pilgrimage will be intense and tiring--the majority of the youth will spend each night in the bus--the European Neocatechumenals expect it to be an unforgettable experience. They have been called together by the Way's founders and superiors, Kiko Argüello, Carmen Hernández, and Fr. Mario Pezzi, and will be presided over by the Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne, Joachim Meisner.


The reason they chose this city was in response to a desire to help evangelize the country, and as a gift to Benexict XVI, who was born in Germany. The Pope has already been informed about the encounter.
More than 200,000 Neocatechumenals this August in Madrid.

Most of the 200,000 young people that have confirmed their presence at World Youth Day will also be driving this new evangelization in the days leading up to the encounter, personally going to different cities throughout Europe to announce Jesus Christ. In this way, after their experience, an "army" of 200,000 young missionaries from all over the world will arrive at the capital of Spain.

As usual, the day after World Youth Day celebrates its closing Mass, the Way will celebrate a vocational encounter, presided over by the Cardinal Archbishop of Madrid, Antonio María Rouco Varela, with the presence of other Cardinals as well as many priests and bishops. At the end of the meeting, they will harvest the fruits of this World Youth Day by asking for vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life.


Madrid and the Neocatechumenal Way
Madrid has a special importance for the Neocatecumenal Way since the christian initiation of adults--as it has been recongnized by the Holy See--was born in the Spanish capital in 1964 among the poor in the slums of Palomeras Altas, and under the impetus of the Second Vatican Council.

In the primitive Church, when the world was pagan, whoever wanted to become a Christian had to begin his "catechumenate," or his way of formation, in order to prepare for Baptism.

Today, the influence of secular culture has led many people to abandon the faith and the Church: for this reason a way of formation in Christianity is very necessary.

More information at: www.jmj2011cnc.info (in Spanish, English, French, German, Polish, and Portuguese).