CAMDEN (August 1, 2005) – Youth and chaparones from the Diocese of Camden will head to Philadelphia International Airport on Aug. 9 for their flight to World Youth day 2005.
A total of 100 youth and adult chaperones will head to London aboard a British Airways Flight that takes off at 6 p.m. from Terminal 1, according to Father Tom Barcellona, Executive Director of Youth Ministry for the Diocese of Camden. Their pilgrimage will take them from London to visit to the Marian shrines at Fatima, Portugal and Lourdes, France and to Oberammergau, Germany, site of a world-famous passion play.
World Youth Day begins in Germany on Aug. 16 and ends on Sunday, Aug. 21 with a Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI. At 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 7, Bishop Joseph A. Galante will celebrate a special ‘Send Off’ Mass at St. Bernadette Church, Northfield, for those leaving for World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne, Germany.
Those traveling for World Youth Day 2005 from the Diocese of Camden are from Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Salem and Gloucester counties. Additionally, the Diocese of Camden has printed 10,000 ‘Pope Pogs’ for the youth to hand out or trade with people they meet. The colorful pogs – a small, circular disc that was a popular collectable item with kids in the 1990s – come with four different images on the fronts.
They include: Pope Benedict XVI, Bishop Joseph Galante, the World Youth Day 2005 logo, and Bishop Galante’s coat-of-arms which bears the motto ‘Have the Mind of Jesus.’