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Father Francis Kohn, head of the Pontifical Park on the evening of 27 July Council for the Laity’s Youth Section, also and the morning of Sunday 28 July. visited from 22 July to 9 August 2001 for a series of meetings held by the What has by now become a traditional Canadian Committee and by various dioce- feature of World Youth Day is also the san commissions (, , New offer of hospitality by the dioceses of the Brunswick) host country in the days immediately pre- ceding the celebration. The Canadian dioce- ses (with the exclusion of ) invite all Programme the groups concerned to take advantage of The programme of the seventeenth World this opportunity from 18 to 21 July 2001: Youth Day is inspired by what has by now the young visitors will be given free accom- become the traditional format of the event, modation in homes, in parishes and in local which will officially begin on Tuesday, 23 communities. Activities of various kinds are July 2002, with the Inaugural Holy being organized on their behalf: prayers, celebrated in and officiated pilgrimages, volunteer service, tourist vis- by Cardinal , its, festivities. Applications by the groups of Toronto. concerned should be made directly to the Canadian organizing Committee. , given in various languages by bishops from all over the world, will take place in many churches and halls in Toronto Participation on the mornings of 24, 25 and 26 July. An Enrolment in World Youth Day 2002 should area on the lake-shore, called Duc in Altum be made at the latest by 15 May 2002 and be Park, will be specially dedicated to the sacra- sent to the Pontifical Council for the Laity ment of Reconciliation during the afternoons, or, in the case of groups from Canada and though it will of course be possible to take the the USA, directly to the Canadian sacrament in the mornings too during the cat- Committee. Enrolment forms, as well as echesis and in the many churches in the city. other information, may be requested from the Youth Section at the Pontifical Council The activities of the Youth Festival will be for the Laity. The enrolment form is also held on the afternoons and evenings of the available online on the website: same days, 24, 25 and 26 July. The festival www.wyd2002.org. programme will comprise various events that will enable the artistic, religious and spiritu- As is now the custom, at the time of enrol- al experiences of the life and faith of youth ment each participant will also be asked to from all over the world to be shared. donate 10 dollars (or the equivalent in other currency) to the traditional Solidarity Fund, The Via Crucis will be celebrated in various aimed at financing the participation of areas of Toronto on the afternoon of Friday, 26 youth from countries or areas in economic July. The main procession will start out from difficulties. This small “solidarity contribu- City Hall and traverse the centre of town. tion” – not to be confused with the other payments requested by the Canadian The culmination of World Youth Day will be Committee to cover the costs of participa- the Vigil and final Eucharistic Celebration tion in the World Day Ð has in past years presided over by the Holy Father in permitted a truly “global” dimension to be 8/9