Greetings, everyone!

Welcome to our landing page for the Sacred Heart World Youth Day Pilgrimage

This page will provide all the information about our pilgrimage, and World Youth Day - Lisbon 2023 in General.

Send in your prayer intentions here for us to take with on pilgrimage:

World Youth Day Petitions

Follow along with our Pilgrimage journey:

• Through our Instagram page: Sacred Heart WYD Instagram 
• You can also follow along through the USCCB WYD Page:  WYD Updates and News
• There is also an official WYD Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/@Lisboa2023
• Or you can follow the hashtags - #JMJLisboa23 and #wydusa on whatever social media apps you use.

You can support our pilgrims through our GoFundMe:

https://gofund.me/82554cc4

While our pilgrims have done a great deal to fundraise on their own, there still remain costs for the pilgrimage that exceed what we have raised. Your donations would assist assist us in providing materials like reflection journals, prayer guides, devotionals, etc. for our pilgrims, as well as items for us to share with other WYD pilgrims we encounter, and to help defray expenses with additional airline ticket costs, payments for local transportation, and some meals not covered through the pilgrimage. We thank you for your generosity.

What is World Youth Day?
Every three years, the Catholic youth of the world come together for one incredible week as
one body, one faith, one voice at World Youth Day. World Youth Day 2023 will be held in
beautiful Lisbon, Portugal’s capital and largest city. Pilgrims will come to celebrate with one
another, deepen their faith, hear from the Pope himself, and be inspired.
You can experience the universal Church alongside Sacred Heart Parish on a pilgrimage to
World Youth Day 2023! Check out this video below for more...

WHAT IS A PILGRIMAGE?
A pilgrimage is a journey from one place to another with specific purpose.

Pilgrimage is an experience that might change your life. But that doesn’t happen by accident.

It’s why we invite all of our pilgrims to prepare thoughtfully and prayerfully, opening their hearts to God’s work before they take that first step off the plane. And it is why we as a group will prepare well for this journey together. 

• What is a Pilgrim?

BASIC INFO
Our pilgrimage will begin from Sacred Heart Parish in Anderson on July 29, 2023. As part of our pilgrimage we will journey to the Shrine of Fatima in Portugal, participate in all of the WYD activities in Lisbon and visit the Eucharistic Miracle site of Santarem. We will return to the US on August 8th.

Part of the pilgrim journey will be preparation, and so there will be regular pilgrim meetings where we will have formation re: the spirit of pilgrimage, youth and the Church, the Holy Site of Fatima, the culture in Portugal, the papacy, etc.

While there will be some limited time to explore Lisbon on your own, as well as free time to see the various WYD events and programs - festival events, concerts, vocations carnival, confession, exhibits, etc. - much of the itinerary is planned out for us all, and the expectation is that pilgrims participate in all of the major WYD events together.

Follow along with us, here on the Basic Calendar

BASIC ITINERARY