120,000 Neocatechumenal Way young people consider call to vocation at Rome gathering

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 6, 2025 / 16:16 pm

About 120,000 young people from the Neocatechumenal Way participated in a gathering on Aug. 4, the feast day of the Curé of Ars , to consider what their vocation in life might be.

In attendance were Kiko Argüello, one of the apostolate’s initiators, and two other members of the organization’s international team: Maria Ascensión and Father Mario Pezzi.

The meeting, held at Tor Vergata — the same place where Pope Leo XIV presided over the vigil and celebrated the closing Mass of the Jubilee of Youth with more than a million souls Aug. 3 — was presided over by Italian Cardinal Baldassare Reina, the pope’s vicar for the Diocese of Rome. Also present were five other cardinals and some 30 bishops.

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