While the EWTN News team was out at the “City of Joy” interviewing World Youth Day (WYD) attendees, they caught a candid interaction on camera of three friends reuniting for the first time in years.

The girls, two of whom will join the Community of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary, told EWTN News that they met in a formation school in Schoenstatt, Germany two years prior.

María Elina San Román who is 26 years old, María Belén Gómez, 29, and Sol Arrua, 23, studied with others from all over the world and became very close while in the Central European country.
With the COVID-19 pandemic and the many other struggles in life, they had not seen each other since.

Fast forward to WYD 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal where San Román and Gómez were at the Schoenstatt booth at the Vocational Fair, located in the “City of Joy.” There, Gómez ran into their long-lost friend, Arrua. They hugged and cried.

Soon after, San Román spotted them as she stood near her booth and ran to hold her friend. The three friends reunited in a sea of people, cried, and laughed together for some time before chatting about their lives.

Full story by Claudette Jerez on churchpop.com.

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