The president of the World Youth Day Foundation (WYD) ensures that the meeting is on schedule and that with “some acrobatic gymnastics” he has managed to balance the bills without resorting to loans.
“I pray to keep it that way until the end. Now I pray and work, because one prayer is not enough,” said Bishop Américo Aguiar in an interview with Lusa two months before the start of the trip. in August and added that “everything is on schedule.”
Works “on schedule” are works on the altar stage in the Tejo Park, the cost of which caused controversy up to budget cuts, as well as the stage in the Parque Eduardo VII, where the WYD Opening Mass will take place, with the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, and the Reception Ceremony and the Godfather The path is with Pope Francis.