• 19:00
WYD Opening Mass
The World Day begins at 5:30 pm (provisional time) with a Mass in Madrid´s Cibeles Square, presided over by the archbishop of Madrid and concelebrated by the bishops and priests participating in WYD.
  • 21:00
Youth Festival
The first activities of the WYD cultural Program begin, which include concerts, exhibitions, displays, guided visits to Museums, plays, and a long etcetera. The program will be unveiled little by little...

Wednesday 17th

  • 09:00
Catechesis sessions
WYD participants, organized by linguistic groups, will have catechesis session with bishops from all over the world. The sessions will take place in churches, schools, auditoriums and sports centers of Madrid.
  • 21:00
Youth Festival
The first activities of the WYD cultural Program begin, which include concerts, exhibitions, displays, guided visits to Museums, plays, and a long etcetera. The program will be unveiled little by little...

Thursday 18th

  • 09:00
Catechesis sessions
WYD participants, organized by linguistic groups, will have catechesis session with bishops from all over the world. The sessions will take place in churches, schools, auditoriums and sports centers of Madrid.
  • 17:00
Papal Welcome
At 5:00 pm (provisional time), the participants will receive the Pope in Cibeles Square.
  • 21:00
Youth Festival
The first activities of the WYD cultural Program begin, which include concerts, exhibitions, displays, guided visits to Museums, plays, and a long etcetera. The program will be unveiled little by little...

Friday 19th

  • 09:00
Catechesis sessions
WYD participants, organized by linguistic groups, will have catechesis session with bishops from all over the world. The sessions will take place in churches, schools, auditoriums and sports centers of Madrid.
  • 17:00
Friday´s Youth Festival
WYD cultural program, which includes concerts, exhibitions, displays, guided visits to Museums, plays, and a long etcetera. The program will be unveiled little by little ...
  • 21:00
Via Crucis
At 9:00 pm (provisional time) the WYD Via Crucis will begin. Fourteen "pasos" of the Spanish Holy Week, from different points of the peninsula, will go out in procession through the streets of Madrid around Cibeles Square.

Saturday 20th

  • 16:00
Preparatory ceremony in Cuatro Vientos
Young people will arrive little by little at the aerodrome and take their places. Meanwhile, different activities will take place on the stage (testimonies of young people, musical interpretations, prayers to the Virgin, etc.), to prepare for the Vigil.
  • 20:00
Vigil with the Pope
At 8:00 pm (provisional time), the Pope will arrive at the Cuatro Vientos aerodrome, and Eucharistic adoration will begin. Planned is an address by the Holy Father.
  • 23:00
Night in Cuatro Vientos
WYD participants will spend the night in the Cuatro Vientos aerodrome. For those who so wish, there will be several tents where they will be able to adore the Most Blessed Sacrament.

Sunday 21st

  • 09:00
WYD Mass of Sending
At 9:00 am (provisional time) the Pope will concelebrate Mass with thousands of bishops and priests, and he will address young people and those who are not so young, to send them out to the world to witness to their faith, as the Lord did with his Apostles. At the end of the conclusive Mass, the Holy Father will announce the place where the next edition of World Youth Day will be held.