Due to the volume of new information that we have recveived, the December issue of the newsletter is coming to you a little early. Included in this issue is important information on registration.
We would like to thank all who have sent us messages of congratulations for our newsletter. Our main goal is to keep you informed. So, please feel free to contact us with any questions that you may have. If we do not have the answers, we will do everything possible to find the information that you require. We can be contacted at the coordinates at the top of this page.
We would also like to thank all those who, on a regular basis, send us WYD news from their diocese. This is a great encouragement, and we hope that information will be useful to other diocesan coordinators.
Finally, as promised, we have a new German word for you to learn. The word of the month: Tschüs! which means “Bye. See you soon!”. An interesting "free" website for learning some basic German is available at: http://german.about.com/library/anfang/blanfang01.htm.
Bill and Sylvain
National Coordinators for World Youth Day 2005
Directors, CCCB Communications Service
Registration
The Cologne Organizing Committee is asking groups to be patient regarding the group codes and passwords that have not yet been sent to the coordinators. Once you have registered, an e-mail will be sent indicating that group coordinators will receive this information shortly. YOU DO NOT NEED TO REGISTER AGAIN. The information sent by the group leaders is kept safe and confidential by the people in charge of registration.
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has contacted the German organizing committee asking, that to be notified if there are any ambiguous questions that need to be clarified. The Pilgrims Service Centre is available to help you with any questions relating to registration, accessing your group account, or regarding WYD in general. The Pilgrims Service Centre (Pilger Service Center) is operational: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. (German Time). Do not forget the time difference: Halifax (3:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.), Montreal-Toronto (4:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.), Vancouver (11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.).
Here are the hotline phone numbers. Please feel free to contact Cologne if you have any questions :
· 011 49 221 – 49 2005-0 (select language after the welcoming message)
· 011 49 221 – 49 2005-1 (German)
· 011 49 221 – 49 2005-2 (English)
· 011 49 221 – 49 2005-3 (French)
· 011 49 221 – 49 2005-4 (Spanish)
· 011 49 221 – 49 2005-5 (Italian)
· Fax: 011 49 221 – 49 2005-7
To email other questions, please send to the following address: info@wjt2005.de.
Other links for more information:
· Registration
· Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Logo Use
We
have received information concerning use of the WYD 2005 logo. It is not
permitted to use it to finance the trip of pilgrims. Its commercial use is
strictly forbidden. It may be used to promote the event after
receiving permission from Cologne. To read the document on the use of the logo in PDF format: click here.
Resources
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has just launched a new section to its website dedicated to World Youth Day. Visitors will be able to find all necessary information on the preparation for WYD in Canada and in Cologne. Please fell free to consult it and encourage others to visit http://www.cccb.ca/Files/WYD2005_Canada.html as well. We are also open to your suggestions for improving the site.
Also on the web, the Youth Office of the Archdiocese of
Toronto has posted a pastoral plan and a pilgrims guide for WYD 2005.
Thanks to Neil McCarthy, the project coordinator, for notifying us about
this. Interested in visiting? Click here.
Promotional Material
Are you interested in a WYD 2005 banner? Or maybe a flag? Or any other promotional materials? Due to high shipping costs, many of you may have abandoned the idea of ordering any. It may be possible for the CCCB to receive some of these promotional items without having to pay high prices for shipping. Anyone interested can contact us (wyd2005@cccb.ca) as soon as possible.
Youth Festival
Véronique Rondeau, one of the Canadian volunteers working for the WYD 2005 Organizing committee, informs us that they are looking for more Canadian musicians and singers to participate at the Youth Festival that gathers artists from all over the world. So far, few of them are registered. Are you a musician? A singer? Do you know a band that would like to play in Cologne? Registration needs to be done soon by contacting Geraldine at Geraldine.pucken@wjt2005.de. For more information on this Festival, click here.
Briefs
- A hockey game between veterans of the the National Hockey League and a team made up of priests
and seminarians is scheduled for Montreal. On April 1, 2005, at 8:00 p.m., the Bon Diables (Good Devils) will be playing against the Légendes du hockey (Hockey Legends) in a special game to be held at the Sports Centre of the University of Montreal. His Eminence Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte will drop the puck for the official face-off. Proceeds from this evening will allow thirty young people from the Côte-des-Neiges and Ville Mont-Royal youth groups (the mission-jeunesse.com group) to travel to WYD in Cologne. The Légendes du hockey team will include such greats as Guy Lafleur, Gilbert Perreault, Richard Sévigny, Yvon Lambert, André “the Moose” Dupont, Gaston Gingras and Stéphane Richer. Among the Good Devils, will be Father Luc Chulak, seminarian Patrick Côté, Father Richard Depairon, Father Alain Faubert, seminarian André Gosselin, Father Normand Lupien, Father Denis Ratté and Father Alain Roy.
- A cookbook with the favourite recipes and meal blessings of 67 German bishops and cardinals has just been published entitled 'Was Leib und Seele zusammenhält' (Keeping life and soul together). Proceeds from the sale will fund the trip of young Lithuanians to World Youth Day. It also reveals Cologne Cardinal Joachim Meisner’s favourite dish: barley soup with ‘mettwurst’, a kielbasa-style sausage.
- In October, approximately 50 longtime WYD volunteers followed in the footsteps of Saint Edith Stein on a pilgrimage to Speyer. Adolph Kolping, Albert the Great, Boniface, the Three Magi, Saint Ursula and Edith Stein are the patron saints of World Youth Day.
- WYD screensavers and ring tones for mobile phones can now be downloaded from the internet. Go to http://www.wyd2005-fulda.de/ to download a range of material including the songs Du für mich (the song accompanying the World Youth Day Cross pilgrimage) and Light of the World (WYD 2002). Ton ensure you get off to a good start, the World Youth Day planner for 2005 is now available to download, free of charge, at www.wjt2005.de. However, it is available only in German.
- A list of the WYD diocesan coordinators in Canada is available in WORD format by clicking here. If your name is not on the list, please let us know and we will add the necessary information.
We would like to remind you that this newsletter is sent exclusively to the Canadian bishops and the WYD 2005 diocesan coordinators.
We wish you all the best until next time!
Auf wieder sehen. See you soon!