August 18, 2011 – Whenever the Pope comes in any world youth day event, chances are you’ll end up in one corner of a street, looking around and waiting. Yes, like it or not, part of the World Youth Day “unwritten” culture is “waiting”. Actually 80% – 90% of the time you’ll spend in seeing the pope pass by or attending a WYD main event presided by the pope involves the majority of your time waiting. And that’s not bad at all. You see, waiting is like the season of advent, you just don’t wait for something nonsense to happen or you dont’t just stand there until lightning strikes you on the ground. You are waiting there because you are hoping that when the Pope pass by you’ll somehow find meaning when he lifts his arm and wave it at you. Waiting involves a lot of patience and it somehow develops our endurance. The lighter side of Waiting in world youth day is that, you are not alone. There are hundreds of thousands or perhaps millions of young people like you who are waiting for the Pope. You wait for hours and hours under the heat of the sun only to catch a glimpse of him in split second. Yet the most astonishing fact of every world youth day is, of all the waiting that happens whenever the Pope arrives or pass by, no one ever complained. Wonder why? Because a mere second in seeing in person the representative of Christ pass by in front of you, in your lifetime, a chance that others wont probably have, is all worth the wait. Often, that split second meeting, change one’s life forever. Below are the photos of Pilgrims killing time, waiting for Pope Benedict XVI.

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