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The auxiliary bishop of Seoul, who is serving as the general coordinator for World Youth Day 2027, believes the upcoming international youth event will be a moment for the Holy Spirit to act in a special way. He said he hopes participants will be inspired by the history of the Church in Korea, which endured a century of persecution that produced some 10,000 martyrs.
“We are waiting and expecting the Holy Spirit to work on each pilgrim, so they can interact with the Holy Father and, in a mysterious way, experience something about God,” Bishop Kyung-Sang Lee told The Pillar.
Asked about his hopes for the upcoming World Youth Day, the bishop said he does not want to impose his own expectations on the event, but rather, he wants to make room for the Holy Spirit to work.
Unlike at school, he said, where teachers prepare their classes with specific expectations of what their students will learn, “we will be giving the space for Jesus to work, and he will be having them drawn to himself, in a sacramental way.”
Lee spoke with The Pillar during the June gathering of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Orlando.
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