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12 I WORLD/NATION JULY 31, 2013 I DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER Support Your Advertisers! For over 113 years your advertisers have helped support the Denver Catholic Register! That's right, they're your advertisers, too. Without their support, we couldn't have brought you the Denver Catholic Register for over 113 years. Help your advertisers by supporting them. Whenever you need goods or services for your home or family, check the Denver Catholic Register first. With the help of our advertisers and your support, we'll be around for at least another 100 years! www.DenverCatholicRegister.org Support Your Advertisers! Celebrating the Sacraments Personalized Messages Next issue October 16, 2013 Deadline October 9, 2013 Recognize sacramental occasions with a personal message in our quarterly Celebrating the Sacraments page. Baptisms First Holy Communions Confirmations Engagements Weddings Anniversaries Share these special occasions with your Catholic Community! Rates: $25 for 3 lines $7 each additional line $25 color photo To place your message: Phone: 303-715-3212 Email: linda.engel@archden.org World Youth Day vigil was 'spectacular,' say pilgrims in Rio HUNDREDS of thousands of pilgrims join Pope Francis on Rio's Copacabana Beach for the Saturday night prayer vigil during the 28th World Youth Day, July 27. PHOTO BY MICHELLE BAUMAN/CNA BY ESTEFANIA AGUIRRE RIO DE JANEIRO (CNA/EWTN News)—Young people participating in the World Youth Day prayer vigil in Rio de Janeiro before the final Mass with Pope Francis said the experience left a mark on them. "The vigil was something spectacular," said Yoel Aparicio from Lima, Peru. "Visiting Brazil isn't just visiting Brazil," he told Catholic News Agency, "because the pope asks you to go back to your parish to share everything you have learned." Aparicio and his friend, Guerson Cruz, belong to the Neocatechumenal Way and arrived in Brazil a week ago, alongside hundreds of others from their movement. "The experience that I have inside of me is going to motivate me more to be able to fight against everything the world offers me," Aparicio said on July 28. "The spirit of the pope is to move the youth and the churches to establish something more solid," he explained. During the previous night's prayer vigil—one of the major events of World Youth Day—Pope Francis prayed with the crowds on Copacabana Beach and led them in eucharistic adoration. The pope told some 3 million pilgrims from around the world that Christ "still needs the young people" to be missionaries for his Church. "I am sure that the seed is falling on good soil, that you want to be good soil, not part-time Christians," he said, "not starchy and superficial, but real." With sentences like "Jesus offers us something bigger than the World Cup," the Holy Father also brought tears to aIN MID few people's eyes. at 1300 "It filled me with joy, and I think being here is simply something extraordi-BY JUL nary and incredible," remarked Cruz. "Especially the pope's message, To c which is something that seems so sim-New ple, and actually it is something mag-semina nificent, something big," he said. paign, The 19-year-old pilgrim underscoredmight that his favorite part of what Pope Fran-(semin cis said is that "we should love eachtated (m other and … accept God in our life soground we can take action." renovat He also liked that the pontiff empha- In m sized the importance of "not just livingemptyi this greatness here but also taking itTheolo elsewhere and to other countries." pare fo "It's something really important be-tion pro cause there are many people who arequated poor," he explained, and it is necessaryplumbi to realize that the ability to come tobuildin World Youth Day is "a blessing, it's a joysouth D and it's something really exciting." time, t "I wish to change my life, and I knowconditi it's going to be hard for me because "As so putting aside the 'I' is something real-began a ly hard, but I know that I can do it withlocating God," said the Peruvian. and the Leaving the vigil, he stressed the joyRector that he felt and said that he knows Godtold the exists "and that he can change my life." ter from Obituaries, Funeral Notices, In Memoriam Let your friends in the Catholic Community know... The paper publishes each Wednesday, the deadline is Tuesday at noon for the next week's issue. To place an Obituary, Funeral Notice or In Memoriam in the Denver Catholic Register, contact Linda at: 303-715-3212 Email: linda.engel@archden.org E E the for the sem Library. Over the 22 priests Vianne faculty majorit will res Joseph ago St. Most s moved brary, a ulty me from ho "We'v our tim "While our live our pla to crea rent e