Courtney McGrailThe theme for World Youth Day 2019 in Panama will be “I am the servant of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word” (Lk. 1:38), the Dicastery for Laity, the Family, and Life has announced.
This means that World Youth from 2017 will have Mary as a central figure for young people to contemplate. The themes, according to the dicastery, “are intended to give a clear Marian tone to the spiritual journey of the next three WYDs.
“At the same time they give a picture of young people on a journey between the past (2017), present (2018), and future (2019), inspired by the three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity.”