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The Catholic University of Murcia is working actively in the World Youth Day
200 people enter students, faculty and staff services, San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM) departed yesterday from the University Campus to Madrid to participate actively as volunteers in the World Youth Day (WYD).
UCAM is involved in all the events planned by the organization, including the University will come to receive the Holy Father at the entrance to the capital.
Volunteers from the Catholic University of Murcia are housed in the Convent of the Handmaids of Jesus, and from there be distributed in groups to contribute to voluntary work at the Retreat or Almudena, or to collaborate in specific areas such as health or the transfer of bishops, among others.
From UCAM has ensured that the group of volunteers is fully available to the organization of World Youth Day, but also be involved in various activities organized allowing attendees to live and meet and talk about their experiences.
The activity coordinator and director of the Religious Action Service of the UCAM, Juani Hernández, stated that this meeting of young people with the Pope is an encounter with Christ himself.
"The Holy Father confirms our faith every World Youth Day is an example of the universality of the Church, as young people see different language, race, social status, are united by one spirit. My experience is that these meetings are encouraged young people to take root and build their lives upon the foundation of the teachings and example of Christ without fear or dread, "he asserted coordinator.
Notably, the UCAM, through the International Institute of Charity and Volunteer John Paul II, and has extensive experience in helping and social cooperation.
For several editions volunteers have been present at World Youth Days and the various meetings that both John Paul II and Benedict XVI has made in Spain.
Institute Director and Vice President for University Extension of the UCAM, Antonio Alcaraz, said that "we have had awesome experiences in all these volunteer activities we do: we have met young people who has changed their lives, young people need help and have found these activities: perhaps been a word of the pope, meeting with people without the minimum to live, they experience problematic social situations, meeting with elderly in nursing homes, with children at risk, and so on. All this has helped you to understand and consider the life of a more humane way. "
Days in the Diocese
The Catholic University of Murcia has also participated in the Days of the Diocese (DED).
From 11 to August 14 UCAM worked as a volunteer in the activities organized by the Diocese, welcoming a group of young people from Ecuador, working with the parishes of Alhama accompanying a group of Slovenians.
Importantly, these meetings aim at a personal encounter with Christ, a life experience of the universality of the Catholic Church as communion, and the Pope's spiritual fatherhood, and a rediscovery of the baptismal vocation to holiness, called to be members active in the Church, responsible for the evangelization of the contemporary world.
The first DED was conducted in 1997 on the occasion of World Youth Day in Paris as a way to provide the youth ministry of the diocese to give France French entire welcome pilgrims from other countries, and encourage young French go to WYD.
The experience was so good it was repeated in subsequent meetings like those held in Italy, Canada, Germany and Australia.
Source: UCAM
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