‘IT'S GAME TIME IN PHILADELPHIA' AS WORLD MEETING OF FAMILIES CELEBRATE OPENING

PHILADELPHIA >> With bell choirs, singing students and roars of applause, the Eighth World Meeting of Families opened Tuesday at the Philadelphia Convention Center, a four-day conference preceding Pope Francis’ visit this weekend.

“What happens here this week is a celebration not about the past but of the future,” Archbishop Charles Chaput said. “The lesson is simply, ‘God remakes the world.’ For the people and families who love him, this week will have the grace, the time when God moves among us. May God pour his courage, his joy, his peace in all of your hearts. Let us begin.”

In a more colloquially way, while presenting the Pope with a custom-made Breezer bicycle and a Lenox dish, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter uttered, “It’s game time in Philadelphia. We’re ready to go.”

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