2016-07-27 12:15:00

Volunteers at World Youth Day speak of "great experience"


(Vatican Radio) Volunteers from around the world are in Krakow for World Youth Day. Without their help, there is no way the youth event would be able to be carried out.

But why do they give up so much of their time – some work on the event for over a year – to travel to a country on the other side of the world? For most, because it is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Within our team we are really, really international,” said  Viktoria Samp, a volunteer in World Youth Day’s Organizing Committee’s  International Affairs Office.

Listen to the interview by Lydia O’Kane with Viktoria Samp:

“There are a lot of people from all over the world, from Asia, from all countries of Europe, from South America, and also from North America, so we have nearly the whole world here,” she continued.

Paula Mora Diaz, a volunteer in the same office from Colombia, said she is impressed by the devotion of the people in Poland.

“The experience has been really great because Poland is a really, really a [believing] country, and on Sundays…in the churches there are plenty of people,” she said.

Listen to the interview by Lydia O’Kane with Paula Mora Diaz:

I love liturgy, and when the Mass is really, really well-respected in its liturgy, in how it has to be done, and these guys do it really great here…they have really good choirs, they kneel all the time before receiving the Holy Sacrament” – Mora Diaz continued – “there is a lot of respect towards God, and towards the Eucharistic, and towards the Faith itself. This experience has been really enlightening to my faith, and to my personal way to live, and way to behave in a Mass and also when I am praying.”








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