XXXV CONGRESSUS INTERNATIONALIS HOLMIAE

WELCOME TO STOCKHOLM, DEAR PUERI CANTORES ! We, the Catholics of Stockholm, are happy and proud to welcome you all to our beautiful city. Your presence among us will be a gift of God that will help us to sing his praises and pray for peace. We hope that you will feel at home in our midst. May God bless you most abundantly! +Anders Arborelius ocd Bishop of Stockholm

DEAR CILDREN AND ALL YOUNG PEOPLE, DEAR PUERI CANTORES ! To promote peace is something for which we all ought to work. With your “Instruments for Peace”, you are contributing a great deal to this end. I am sure that all Stockholmers and visitors to our capital will experience how you, with your voices, demonstrate how choral and instrumental music brings us together in joy and unity for peace in our world. I wish you all a pleasant and rewarding visit to our summer town Stockholm. HM Queen Silvia

STOCKHOLM - THE CAPITAL OF SCANDINAVIA! Welcome to Stockholm, the Capital of Scandinavia. Discover a city like no other - a city built on 14 islands, where you are never far from the water. Well-preserved medieval buildings stand alongside modern architecture. Stockholm is also home of the Nobel Prize. And just outside the city, the archipelago of 24 000 islands is waiting to be explored. Läs mer »

POPE BENEDICT XVI: The harmony of music and song, which knows no religious or social barriers, may be a constant invitation for believers and all people of good will to seek together the universal language of love, which makes men capable of building a world of justice and solidarity, of hope and peace. From an address to Pueri Cantores International 20th October 2005.