For this to happen, community members need opportunities to use their gifts. This is the leaders’ task. When school and parish leaders work together with a common vision, a greater sense of community will result.
The young people were encouraged to hand in their phones as a way to involve themselves completely in the process. By the end of the camp many commented on how good it was not to have to worry about their phones.
A competition between the sexes as to who could compose and sing the most amazing grace became a feature of a Passionist youth camp in the Pohangina Valley at the start of July.
Three students from St Patrick’s Parish Paraparaumu have recently completed the Certificate in Catholic Youth Ministry through the Catholic Education Centre in Wellington.
What does it mean to be a young Catholic these days? Who better to ask than our young chaps themselves? Here’s what the Holy Molies of Ss Peter and Paul Parish, Lower Hutt, had to say about it…
What called them together and what has left us all so excited and richly fed? It wasn’t the meat pies or the soup, though they were wonderful; it was the opportunity to meet, to pray and to ponder the Mass in Slow Motion.
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