the Church in St. John's
and Around the World
October 2024
World Youth Day Message
World Youth Day Message from Pope Francis: At the request of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, the CCCB General Secretariat forwards you the Holy Father’s Message for the XXXIX World Youth Day. This year’s theme, “Those who hope in the Lord… will run and not be weary” (Is 40:31), centres on hope and endurance in continuation of the two-year cycle linking the theme of the World Youth Days to the theme to the Great Jubilee, “Pilgrims of Hope.”
The international celebration of World Youth Day is generally held every three years in a different country, each time with the participation of the Holy Father. The ordinary celebration of WYD, on the other hand, takes place every year, on the Solemnity of Christ the King, in the particular Churches that undertake the organisation of the event. Thus, the Holy Father’s Message transmitted with this memo is intended to inspire and guide events in your diocese/eparchy this coming Solemnity of Christ the King, Sunday, 24 November 2024. The local celebration of this year’s World Youth Day in your diocese or eparchy will help prepare the universal Church for her next major international celebrations of youth, the Jubilee of Young People in 2025, followed by World Youth Day in Seoul, Korea, in 2027.
Around The Archdiocese of st. John's
News and Upcoming Events:
Blessed Carlo Acutis Relic Itinerary
Thursday, October 24th – St. John the Baptist Cathedral Basilica Parish
9AM- A Welcoming Mass at the Basilica
11AM- Mass -All invited to join with St. Bonaventure’s College School Community
12PM-9PM – Public veneration of the relic
Friday, October 25th
9AM-Basilica Morning Mass
Public Veneration Begins 12PM
Divine Mercy Chaplet Prayer at 3PM
7-9PM -Evening Retreat (Talks, Adoration, Confessions, Benediction at 9PM)
Saturday, October 26th – St. Edward’s Parish, CBS, NL (2696 Topsail Rd.)
11–11:15 Brief talk and introduction in the church
11:15–2pm Veneration of the relic in the church plus a display on Eucharistic miracles, video of Bl. Carlo’s life, and refreshments in the parish hall.
2:15–3:45 Confessions
4–5pm Vigil Mass for 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
5–7pm Veneration continues in church with display and refreshments in the parish hall as above.
Sunday, October 27th – Our Lady, Queen of Families, Mt Pearl
11:30-1:30pm Public Veneration of the Relic
View display of Eucharistic Miracles.
Pancake breakfast in parish centre
***Sunday: 2PM- 7PM Public Veneration in the Basilica, Mass at 7PM
Monday, October 28th St. Teresa’s Parish, Mundy Pond
12:00 pm Welcoming Prayer Service
12:30 pm public veneration of the relic
3:00 Pm K of C Rosary
3:30: Public veneration and visitation
6:00 pm explosion of the Holy Sacrament
6:50 pm Benediction
7:00 pm: Mass and blessing with the Relic
8:00 pm Social in the basement
Tuesday, October 29th -St. Kevin’s Parish, Goulds
1030 am prayer service with veneration of the relic and blessing
11:00 am confession-12:30
11:00-6:45 Private veneration of relic
7:00 Mass
7:30 exposition of Blessed Sacrament
7:30-8:20 confession
8:30 Benediction
8:30-930 Private veneration of relic followed by blessing with relic
Wednesday, October 30th, Divine Mercy Parish, Newfoundland Drive, St. John’s
1:30PM Recitation of the Rosary
2PM-6:30PM Public Individual Veneration of the relic
3PM Divine Mercy Captlet
4:30PM Viewing of the Documentary: “Carlo Acutis: Web Missionary”
6:30PM Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
7:00PM Mass Followed by Individual Veneration and a concluding Social