Pentecost Festival 2025: Over 12,000 young people celebrate in Austria!

Pentecost Festival 2025: Over 12,000 young people celebrate in Austria!

Wiener Neustadt, Österreich - With high voltage, the participants look at the upcoming Pentecost weekend, which promises a true faith festival in Austria and beyond. On June 7 and 8, 2023, over 12,000 young people and young adults will come together in various cities to celebrate the 26th Pentecost of the Catholic Loretto community. Since its foundation, this event has developed as a “festival of youth” in the Salzburg Cathedral into a national festival of faith that makes the hearts of the participants beat faster. Maximilian Oettingen, who has headed the Loretto community since 2004, emphasizes that these festivals offer rooms in which Christian faith can be experienced together, and kath.net reports of the many options for deepening and community.

The Pentecost is not only a festival of faith, but also a place of encounter for people from different age groups and cultures. The diversity of the participants is obvious in Salzburg: Here, over 10,000 young people from different nations and backgrounds come together in order not only to deepen their faith, but also to establish new friendships and to grow personally. In addition to workshops and lectures, the program also includes prayer times and live music from bands that perform modern worship sound and Christian hits. The event is organized by the Loretto community, which as a Catholic movement makes an important contribution to promoting faith. Information about The Festival of Youth are provided online, and practical tips help the participants to travel well.

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But what do you actually celebrate at Pentecost? The high festival is celebrated 50 days after Easter and is considered the "birthday of the church". It is connected to the Holy Spirit and marks the end of Easter. In the history of apostles it is described that the Holy Spirit came down to the disciples and enabled them to speak in foreign languages. This created a miracle of understanding and made sure that people from different regions came together to hear the message of Jesus. This event is interpreted by many Christians as a sign of unity and international exchange. In many countries, including Austria, Pentecost is also a popular festival that is also associated with traditional customs, such as the unruicked night from Pentecost Sunday to Whit Monday, in which flunker and jokes, reports [katholisch.de] (https://www.katholisch.de/artikel/154-penten-was-- Fest-Fest-Fest-Fest-after).

Overall, the Catholic Loretto community looks back on a successful past festival series and is looking forward to the upcoming events in Linz, Klagenfurt, Vienna, Bregenz and many other places. Over 2,000 volunteers are fully committed to designing the festival and offering the participants an unforgettable experience.

If you also want to become part of this special event, be it out of religious interest or simply out of curiosity for a community full of joy, then take a look at the information on the registration that can be found on the official websites. Pentecost 2023 will definitely be a festival that should not be missed!