World Youth Day recalled and celebrated.

Toronto--In the Toronto Star for July 20, Kevin Scanlon discussed a coffee-table book entitled Reflections of His Light documenting the Holy Father's visit to Canada in the summer of 2002, and the trip made by the World Youth Day Cross across Canada.

Boris Spremo, a retired Star photographer, offers a stunning series of variations on a theme--most of the 275 photographs in the book have a cross in them, yet no two are alike. They range from the cross being pulled on a sled by a team of huskies in the Northwest Territories to the reenactment of the crucifixion at Ottawa's Corel Centre, and the breathtaking Stations of the Cross enacted on University Avenue in Toronto. For him, it was the little moments during World Youth Days that stood out wide-eyed joyous faces greeting the Pope, passionate youths discussing their religion, groups of young people singing in the streets.

For the first anniversary of World Youth Day 2002, Father Thomas Rosica, C. S. B., who was director of the event, set down his reflections on it. The storm that blew in from the west ripped off part of the roof of the largest stage ever constructed in North America, drenched over 600 bishops and cardinals, and even soaked the Pope. When it seemed that everything was going to be blown off the stage, Rosica had a moment of panic. Yet "it was the wind and the trees that served as privileged witnesses of those young pilgrims who graced our land and our Church last summer." He prays that the mighty wind of Pentecost will continue to blow furiously throughout the Church in Canada. "May that wind now blow from sea to sea to sea--bringing to full life," he writes, "a Church that was reborn on July 28, 2002 at Downsview Park in the heart of Toronto." ($125.00, www.wyd2003photoalbum.com).