Holy Father Benedict XVI has chosen the themes for the next three World Youth Days

The Holy Father Benedict XVI has chosen the themes for the next three World Youth Days so as to help build a spiritual itinerary that will culminate in the World Youth Day celebrations scheduled to take place in Madrid, Spain from 16 to 21 August, 2011.

The themes are:

24th World Youth Day (2009): We Have Set Our Hope on the Living God (1 Tim 4:10)

25th World Youth Day (2010): Good Teacher, What Must I do to Inherit Eternal Life? (Mk 10:17)

26th World Youth Day (2011): Rooted and Built Up in Jesus Christ, Firm in the Faith (cf Col 2:7).