Scan to view a photo slideshow from World Youth Day 2016 JESUIT PERSPECTIVES • FALL 2016 9 Czech Republic to Poland, and visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial to the Nazi-era concentration and extermination camps. • Staying with host families after arriving in Krakow for WYD, where they met fellow pilgrims from Iceland, Kuwait, Scotland, Spain, Australia, Ireland, Hong Kong, Argentina, and dozens more places around the globe. • Celebrating Mass with the youngest Cardinal in the church, Soane Patita Paini Cardinal Mafi , of Tonga, who is also the fi rst Cardinal from Tonga. • Sleeping overnight with more than a million others at Campus Misericordiae (fi eld of mercy) July 30- 31, the night before the historic WYD closing Mass with Pope Francis. • Sharing a fi nal few days of refl ection amidst the breathtaking Austrian Alps before traveling back to Florida. The mesmerizing images from the WYD events show the nearly 2 million people in attendance. It was reminiscent of the last World Youth Day, in 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when a Jesuit contingent of more than 50 (39 students) joined millions on Copacabana Beach and celebrated Mass with Pope Francis, the fi rst Jesuit Pope. One of the trip chaperones this year, Fr. Patrick Hough, S.J., the Director of Campus Ministry at Jesuit, tweeted daily the entire way, providing remarkable images and details, and hundreds of photos and updates. On Twitter, go to @jphoughsj for direct access to his tweets, and scroll through them to relive the pilgrimage. Shortly after their return, Bay News 9 and FOX 13 interviewed student pilgrims and aired feature segments about their World Youth Day experi- Night at World Youth Day The Church of the Gesu ence, and Ch. 8 WFLA-NBC previewed their return to Tampa the day they landed at TIA. With so many consequential experiences during the trip, many found it diffi cult to answer questions about what was most memorable. For Andres Cartaya ’18, who was interviewed by FOX 13’s Kelly Ring, it was the 10-mile walk back to his host family’s home following the fi nal Mass with Pope Francis on July 31. The brotherhood he experienced was life-changing. Speaking at Convocation in August, Nick Muir ’19 cited the fi nal three days of refl ection in the Alps of Austria. Shane Eilers ’17 spoke about seeing such incredible religious and historical places in Italy, places he had read about in books and seen online. But when experienced in reality, it deeply affected him. Muir closed the Convocation by noting the next World Youth Day, in 2019 in Panama. He encouraged the freshmen, who will be entering their senior year at that time, to participate in Jesuit’s WYD pilgrimage that summer. Jesuit pilgrims at Auschwitz Shane Eilers ’17 at Convocation after World Youth Day Jesuit pilgrims at World Youth Day in Krakow
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