Today, September 15,
2012, 1:28:11 PM
(Vatican Radio ) Tracey McClure reports from
Beirut on Pope Benedict XVI's open air encounter with young people which took
place in the square outside the Maronite Patriarchal residence on the evening of
Saturday 15th September. Listen: It was a party atmosphere that greeted Pope
Benedict with song and a rainbow of colors in choreographed dance. With a
gigantic rosary made of blue and yellow balloons floating across the sky under
the sign of Our Lady, the square outside the Maronite Patriarchal residence was
full to brimming with young people from across Lebanon. So full that the
Lebanese themselves were surprised – many were waiting to see what the security
situation would be like before deciding to come. Some didn’t care about that at
all, crossing over the border from war-torn Syria – one young girl saying she
hadn’t fled the country but come here on purpose to bring the Holy Father’s
prayers for peace back to her suffering home. And they came too from the Holy
land, Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, Jordan, Europe, the Americas and Australia – from
across every continent to celebrate the peace that Pope Benedict wants to share
in a suffering world.
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