A summary of the third part of Pope Francis tour of USA, in Philadelphia and the Family Festival

1. 09:30 - Arrival at the International Airport of Philadelphia
10:30 - Holy Mass with the Bishops, Clergy, Men and Women
Religious of Pennsylvania
gathered at the Cathedral of Sts Peter and Paul in Philadelphia
16:45 - Meeting for Religious Liberty with the Hispanic
community and other immigrants
at the Independence Mall in Philadelphia
19:30 - Festival of families and vigil of prayer at the B. Franklin
Parkway in Philadelphia
Sunday, 27 September 2015
Meeting with victims of sexual abuse
at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia
09:15 - Meeting with bishops taking part in the World Meeting
of Families
gathered at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia
11:00 - Visit to detainees at Curran-Fromhold Correctional
Facility in Philadelphia
16:00 - Holy Mass concluding the World Meeting of Families at
B. Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia
19:00 - Greeting to the organizing committee, volunteers and
benefactors at the International Airport of Philadelphia
19:45 - Farewell ceremony
20:00 - Departure by plane from Philadelphia for
Rome/Ciampino
In-Flight Press Conference from Philadelphia to Rome
POPE FRANCIS
ARRIVES IN PHILADELPHIA

2. The papal tour thru the centre of Philadelphia

5. Holy Mass with
the Bishops, Clergy,
Men and Women Religious
of Pennsylvania gathered at
the Cathedral of Sts Peter
and Paul in Philadelphia

6. Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul

8. “When Katherine Drexel spoke to Pope Leo XIII of the needs of the missions, …he asked her pointedly:
“What about you? What are you going to do?”. Those words changed Katharine’s life, because they
reminded her that.. every Christian man and woman, by virtue of baptism, has received a mission.
Each one of us has to respond, as best we can, to the Lord’s call to build up his Body, the Church”.

10. “One of the great challenges facing the Church in this generation is to foster in all the faithful
a sense of personal responsibility for the Church’s mission, and to enable them to fulfill
that responsibility as missionary disciples, as a leaven of the Gospel in our world”.

11. “This will require creativity in adapting to changed situations, carrying forward the legacy
of the past not primarily by maintaining our structures and institutions, which have served
us well, but above all by being open to the possibilities which the Spirit opens up to us
and communicating the joy of the Gospel, daily and in every season of our life”.

12. “This does not mean relinquishing the spiritual authority with which we have been entrusted;
rather, it means discerning and employing wisely the manifold gifts which the Spirit pours out
on the Church. In a particular way, it means valuing the immense contribution which women,
lay and religious, have made and continue to make, in the life of our communities”

15. “The Declaration of Independence stated that all men and women are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights,
and that governments exist to protect and defend those rights”

16. History also shows that these or any
truths must constantly be reaffirmed,
re-appropriated and defended.
The history of this nation is also the tale
of a constant effort, lasting to our own day,
to embody those lofty principles in social
and political life. We remember the great
struggles which led to the abolition of
slavery, the extension of voting rights,
the growth of the labor movement, and the
gradual effort to eliminate every kind of
racism and prejudice directed at
further waves of new Americans.
This shows that, when a country is
determined to remain true to its principles,
those founding principles based on respect
for human dignity, it is strengthened and
renewed. When a country is mindful of
its roots, it keeps growing, it is renewed
and it continues to embrace newcomers,
new individuals and new peoples.

17. “Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community,
as our consciences dictate. But religious liberty, by its nature, transcends places of worship
and the private sphere of individuals and families. Because religion itself, the religious dimension,
is not a subculture; it is part of the culture of every people and every nation”.

18. “religious traditions serve society primarily by the message they proclaim.
They call individuals and communities to worship God, the source of all life,
liberty and happiness. They remind us of the transcendent dimension of human
existence and our irreducible freedom in the face of any claim to absolute power”

19. “history of the last century, to see the atrocities perpetrated by systems which claimed
to build one or another “earthly paradise” by dominating peoples, subjecting them
to apparently indisputable principles and denying them any kind of rights”

20. “Our religious traditions remind us that, as human beings, we are called to acknowledge
an Other, who reveals our relational identity in the face of every effort to impose
“a uniformity to which the egotism of the powerful, the conformism of the weak,
or the ideology of the utopian would seek to impose on us” (M. de Certeau).

21. “In a world where various forms of modern tyranny seek to suppress religious freedom,
or, as I said earlier, to try to reduce it to a subculture without right to a voice in the
public square, or to use religion as a pretext for hatred and brutality, it is imperative
that the followers of the various religious traditions join their voices in calling
for peace, tolerance and respect for the dignity and the rights of others.”

22. “The religions thus have the right and the duty to make clear
that it is possible to build a society where “a healthy pluralism
which respects differences and values them
as such” (Evangelii Gaudium, 255)

23. “If a certain kind of globalization claims to make everyone uniform, to level everyone out,
that globalization destroys the rich gifts and uniqueness of each person and each people”.

24. “..but a globalization which attempts to bring everyone together
while respecting the uniqueness and gifts of each person or people is
a good globalization; it helps all of us to grow, and it brings peace”.

25. the vibrant faith which so many of you possess,
the deep sense of family life
and all those other values
which you have inherited

26. “Let us preserve freedom. Let us cherish freedom. Freedom of conscience,
religious freedom, the freedom of each person, each family, each people,
which is what gives rise to rights. May this country and each of you be renewed
in gratitude for the many blessings and freedoms that you enjoy. And may you defend
these rights, especially your religious freedom, for it has been given to you by God himself”

28. PHILADELPHIA
WORLD MEETING OF FAMILIES

29. “love consists in this, not that we have loved God
but that he loved us first” (1 Jn 4:10).

30. Faith opens a “window” to the presence and working of the Spirit.
It shows us that, like happiness, holiness is always tied to
little gestures. “Whoever gives you a cup of water in my
name will not go unrewarded”, says Jesus (cf. Mk 9:41).

31. “Would that all of us could be open to miracles of love to benefit our
own families and all the families of the world, and thus overcome the
scandal of a narrow, petty love, closed in on itself, impatient with others”

35. Christian dance group
“Thanks to all who have given
testimonies. Thanks to those who
entertained us with art, beauty,
which is the way that leads to God.
Beauty brings us to God, and
a true testimony leads us to God,
for God is also the Truth”

36. “A true testimony that family life is
worthwhile, - that a society grows strong,
and good, and beautiful and true if it is
built on the base of the family”.

38. Aretha Franklin sang for the Pope

41. Meeting with bishops
taking part in the
World Meeting
of Families
gathered at St. Charles
Borromeo Seminary
in Philadelphia

49. VISIT TO DETAINEES AT CURRAN-FROMHOLD CORRECTIONAL FACILITY

50. “I am here as a pastor, but above all as a brother, to share your situation and to make it my own.
I have come so that we can pray together and offer our God everything that causes us pain, but
also everything that gives us hope, so that we can receive from him the power of the resurrection”

51. “He wants us to keep walking along the paths of life,
to realize that we have a mission, and that
confinement is never the same thing as exclusion”.

52. “All of us need to be cleansed, to be washed. All of us. Myself, first and foremost.
All of us are being sought out by the Teacher, who wants to help us resume our journey.
The Lord goes in search of us; to all of us he stretches out a helping hand”.

53. “This time in your life can
only have one purpose:
to give you a hand in getting
back on the right road,
to give you a hand
to help you rejoin society”.

54. “Let us look to Jesus, who washes our feet. He is “the way, and the truth, and the life”.
He comes to save us from the lie that says no one can change, the lie of thinking that
no one can change. Jesus helps us to journey along the paths of life and fulfillment.
May the power of his love and his resurrection always be a path leading you to new life”.

59. “The identity seal of the family comes from God, so that
truth, love and beauty, may grow ever more in it’s heart”

61. “The family is … a factory of hope, of life,
of resurrection, since God opened for us this way”.

64. “Moses and Jesus both rebuke those closest to them
for being so narrow! Would that all could be prophets
of God’s word! Would that everyone could
work miracles in the Lord’s name”!

65. “Jesus encountered hostility
from people who did not
accept what he said and did.
For them, his openness to the
honest and sincere faith of
many men and women who
were not part of God’s chosen
people seemed intolerable.
The disciples, for their part,
acted in good faith. But the
temptation to be scandalized by
the freedom of God, who sends
rain on the righteous and the
unrighteous alike (Mt 5:45),
bypassing bureaucracy,
officialdom and inner circles,
threatens the authenticity of
faith. Hence it must be
vigorously rejected”.

66. “It invites all those who want to share the prophecy of the covenant of man and woman, which
generates life and reveals God! May the Lord help us to be sharers in the prophecy of peace,
of tenderness and affection in the family. May his word help us to share in the prophetic sign
of watching over our children and our grandparents with tenderness, with patience and with love”.

71. Finally at Philadelphia for
the World Meeting of Families

72. The Walker family travelled from Buenas Aires to Philadelphia by road

73. It was worth it to see the Pope

75. Closing ceremony
with benefactors
and organizing
committee

76. It’s always a grace to greet the Pope

77. Time to say good bye, or “until the next time”.
We bear your message in our minds
and your presence in our hearts.

79. LIST OF PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH
Revised 27-5-2020
Advent and Christmas – time of hope and peace
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1 – In the Light of the Word
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2 – The Experiences and Challenges of Families
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3 - Looking to Jesus, the Vocation of the Family
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4 - Love in Marriage
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5 – Love made Fruitfuol
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6 – Some Pastoral Perspectives
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7 – Towards a better education of children
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8 – Accompanying, discerning and integrating weaknwss
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9 – The Spirituality of Marriage and the Family
Beloved Amazon 1ª – A Social Dream
Beloved Amazon 2 - A Cultural Dream
Beloved Amazon 3 – An Ecological Dream
Beloved Amazon 4 - An Ecclesiastical Dream
Carnival
Christ is Alive
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – Church and Family today
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - God’s plan for the family
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – family as a Community
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – serving life and education
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – mission of the family in society
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - Family in the Church
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Football in Spain
Haurietis aquas – devotion to the Sacred Heart by Pius XII
Holidays and Holy Days
Holy Spirit
Holy Week – drawings for children
Holy Week – glmjpses of the last hours of JC
Inauguration of President Donald Trump
Juno explores Jupiter
Laudato si 1 – care for the common home
Laudato si 2 – Gospel of creation
Laudato si 3 – Human roots of the ecological crisis
Laudato si 4 – integral ecology
Laudato si 5 – lines of approach and action
Laudato si 6 – Education y Ecological Spirituality
Love and Marriage 1-
Love and Marriage 2 – growing up to sexual maturity
Love and Marriage 3 – psychological differences and complimentarity
Love and Marriage 4- causes of sexual attraction
Love and Marriage 5- freedom and intimacy
Love and Marriage 6 - human love
Love and Marriage 7 - destiny of human love
Love and Marriage 8- marriage between Christian believers
Love and Marriage 9 – sacrament of marriage
Lumen Fidei – ch 1,2,3,4
Medjugore Pilgrimage
Misericordiae Vultus in English
Mother Teresa of Calcuta – Saint
Pope Franciss in Thailand
Pope Francis in Japan
Pope Francis in Sweden
Pope Francis in America
Pope Francis in the WYD in Poland 2016
Querida Amazonia
Resurrection of Jesus Christ –according to the Gospels
Russian Revolution and Communismo 3 civil war 1918.1921
Russian Revolution and Communism 1
Russian Revolution and Communismo 2
Saint Joseph
Saint Patrick and Ireland
Sunday – day of the Lord
Thanksgiving – History and Customs
The Body, the cult – (Eucharist)
Valentine
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Way of the Cross – drawings for children
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80. LISTA DE PRESENTACIONES EN ESPAÑOL
Revisado 27-5-2020
Abuelos
Adviento y Navidad, tiempo de esperanza
Amor y Matrimonio 1 - 9
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1 – A la luz de la Palabre
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2 – Realidad y Desafíos de las Familias
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3 La mirada puesta en Jesús: Vocación de la Familia
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4 - El Amor en el Matrimonio
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5 – Amor que se vuelve fecundo
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6 – Algunas Perspectivas Pastorales
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7 – Fortalecer la educacion de los hijos
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8 – Acompañar, discernir e integrar la fragilidad
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9 – Espiritualidad Matrimonial y Familiar
Carnaval
Cristo Vive
Domingo – día del Señor
El camino de la cruz de JC en dibujos para niños
El Cuerpo, el culto – (eucarisía)
Espíritu Santo
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – iglesia y familia hoy
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - el plan de Dios para la familia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – familia como comunidad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – servicio a la vida y educación
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – misión de la familia en la sociedad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - participación de la familia en la iglesia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Fátima – Historia de las Apariciones de la Virgen
Feria de Sevilla
Haurietis aquas – el culto al Sagrado Corazón
Hermandades y cofradías
Hispanidad
Laudato si 1 – cuidado del hogar común
Laudato si 2 – evangelio de creación
Laudato si 3 – La raíz de la crisis ecológica
Laudato si 4 – ecología integral
Laudato si 5 – líneas de acción
Laudato si 6 – Educación y Espiritualidad Ecológica
Lumen Fidei – cap 1,2,3,4
Madre Teresa de Calcuta – Santa
María y la Biblia
Medjugore peregrinación
Misericordiae Vultus en Español
Papa Francisco en Bulgaria
Papa Francisco en Rumania
Papa Francisco en Marruecos
Papa Francisco en México
Papa Francisco – mensaje para la Jornada Mundial Juventud 2016
Papa Francisco – visita a Chile
Papa Francisco – visita a Perú
Papa Francisco en Colombia 1 + 2
Papa Francisco en Cuba
Papa Francisco en Fátima
Papa Francisco en la JMJ 2016 – Polonia
Queridas Amazoznia 1 un sueños social
Queridas Amazoznia 2 un suepo cultural
Queridas Amazoznia 3 un seuños ecologico
Queridas Amazoznia 4 un sueño eclesial
Resurrección de Jesucristo – según los Evangelios
Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 1
Revolución Rusa y comunismo 2
Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 3
San José
Santiago Apóstol
Semana santa – Vistas de las últimas horas de JC
Vacaciones Cristianas
Valentín
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