MESSAGE FROM POPE LEO XIV to the participants of the 36th Youth Festival Medjugorje, August 4th – 8th, 2025
Dear young people, I am pleased to address you with a message on the occasion of the 36th Youth Festival, which, like every year, reunites you in Medjugorje. You come from many countries around the world: I cordially greet you with the greeting of the Risen Lord: “Peace be with you!” In recent days, you have […]
Fr. Zvonimir Pavičić celebrated Holy Mass on Cross Mountain at the end the Youth Festival: ‘Be Our Lady’s children!’
”We are at the end of our gathering, this spiritual retreat we had in Medjugorje. We began it on the Apparition Hill, and we end it here on Cross Mountain. This is a place of faith. A place where parishioners raised a cross, in order to receive a blessing from God, so that God would […]
Bishop Petar Palić presided over the Holy Mass on the final evening of the 36th Youth Festival
The last, fourth evening of the 36th Youth Festival ended with the farewell mission, or the gifting of the rosaries to the representatives of young people from 71 countries from which pilgrims came to this Youth Festival. They were presented by the Bishop of Mostar-Duvno and Apostolic Administrator of the Trebinje-Mrkan Diocese, Msgr. Petar Palić, […]
The 36th Youth Festival – Fr. Zvonimir Pavičić: Let us respond to Our Lady’s invitation. She is calling until we are all converted
The third day of the 36th International Youth Prayer Festival, which is being held in Medjugorje under the motto ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord!’ (Ps 122:1), began with the morning prayer at the White Dome of the Church of St. James, led by the parish priest of Medjugorje, Fr. Zvonimir Pavičić. […]
36th Youth Festival – Fr. Jozo Grbeš: Let’s not be formal Christians, there are too many of them today
On the second day of the 36th International Youth Prayer Festival on Tuesday, August 5, on the feast of Our Lady of the Snows – Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary the Great, the Holy Mass was celebrated on the White Dome of the Church of St. James by Fr. Jozo Grbeš, the Provincial of […]