Work on WYD 2013 Already Begun: Cardinal Ryłko

August 30. 2011: According to the president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, preparations for World Youth Day 2013 are already under way. Though Madrid's celebration is barely over, Cardinal Stanisław Ryłko has already met with the bishops of Brazil to get WYD Rio de Janeiro rolling.
In an interview with L'Osservatore Romano spoke, the cardinal said that he had already met the archbishop of the city and a representation of the national episcopal conference. Meanwhile, the large wooden cross that always precedes the WYDs is already on its way to Brazil, as a plough that prepares the earth for the sowing. It will arrive in the archdiocese of São Paulo and from there will begin a pilgrimage to the 274 dioceses of the country, in the two-year span of preparation for the event.
Cardinal Ryłko said that the objective of every WYD is to build bridges between the extraordinary event of the celebration and the international meeting with the Pope and the ordinary and concrete life of young people who live in the present-day reality. Here is where the quality of youth ministry is measured.