BRUSSELS — Numerous volunteers and professionals will do everything in their power to make Pope Francis’s visit to Luxembourg and Belgium Sept. 26-29 go smoothly. Each has a different task, but one thought prevails: you only get this chance once in your lifetime. Bram Slegers, together with 14 other boys and girls, will soon be taking part in a papal Mass as altar boy in the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels Sept. 29. “I received an email saying I had to go to Koekelberg because I was allowed to serve with the pope. We were told we were chosen,” he said. Each diocese has sent a few young people. The papal visit is no less important for people involved in interpreting, vestment preparation and logistics — as any big papal event. Seventy-year-old Patrick Du Bois was involved in organizing Church events for almost two decades, but this is by far the biggest one he’s organizing as logistics coordinator. His reward at the end would be “if all those people have also received new impetus and new enthusiasm for faith and Christian values,” he said. “That is our hope, that people will become more positive about the Church.” (OSV News)
