Commission on Youth - Archdiocese of Cebu

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Countdown to the
28th Local World Youth Day

March 21-24, 2013
San Fernando Rey Parish, Liloan

Barkada ni Pedro

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Key Personnel

Archbishop:

Archbishop Jose S. Palma

Chairman:

Rev. Msgr. Arthur R. Navales, PC

Vice-chairman:

Rev. Fr. Kit Sestoso

Youth Leader:

Krishna Jacalan

Address:

2nd Floor, Cardinal Rosales
Pastoral Center (Patria de Cebu),
P. Burgos St., Cebu City 6000

E-mail:

com_on_youth_cebu@yahoo.com

Tel/Fax:

(032) 253 - 0173

Ikalawang Pilipinong Santo - Pedro Calungsod

Prayer of the Youth

on the occasion of the CBCP Year of the Youth

Almighty Father, God of life and love,
through time and ages, You love us.
You trust and choose us
to participate in Your saving work.

Bless us, Your young people,
with Your grace.
Give us the gift of living life to the full
by encountering Your Son
in a personal way
and sustaining a relationship with Him,
by learning what life truly is
from His words and works,
from His filial relationship with You,
And by living in true and fruitful
communion with You
and with one another.

Empower us through Your Holy Spirit
to stand firm in the faith.
May we bring our fellow young people
closer to You so that together,
we become agents of change
and builders of a society of justice and
solidarity, love and peace.

Enable all of us:
Your young people,
together with those ministering to us
in the Church, in families and in society,
to make a decisive response
to our universal vocation;
to live fully and fruitfully
by doing everything in love
as we follow Jesus Christ
along the path of genuine trust in You.

In communion with the rest of the Church,
we pray that this CBCP Year of the Youth
become a kairos time
for the youth ministry of Your Church
and a new springtime for us,
Filipino youth: a special period
of growing in Your grace
through our living in youthful holiness
and through our effort to reach out
as a Church to those waiting for Your love.

Together with our Blessed Mother,
our model in giving oneself
entirely to Your will,
we lift this prayer to You
in Jesus Christ, Your Son,
our Friend, Brother and Lord,
in the Power of the Holy Spirit,
now and forever. Amen.

Carmen Salles y Barangueras

Carmen Salles, was born April 9, 1848, in Vic, Barcelona, Spain. Raised by devout Catholic parents, the second of 10 children, she grew up with a strong devotion of Our Lady. The year of 1858 was a Marian year and proved to be a pivotal time in Carmen’s life. It was the same year that Mary appeared in Lourdes to Bernadette and confirmed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. That year, Carmen went to Montserrat on pilgrimage with her family where she received her First Communion and vowed to give her life to Jesus. It was on this visit that she knelt at Mary’s feet and consecrated her life to Jesus through Mary.

Carmen was convinced of her vocation and convinced her parents to break her engagement to a young Spaniard and allow her to enter the Adores Sisters. These sisters were dedicated to the recovery of women who were living on the margins after a life of crime or prostitution. She dedicated the next 22 years of her life to educating these women so they could get out of the sex life and achieve a dignified place in society, which involved running day schools for the children of working mothers, and night schools for the mothers.

Sister Carmen eventually founded a new order, the Missionary Conceptionists of Hope, and became a well-known pioneer in proclaiming equality between men and women and in defending the dignity of women in the home and in society at large.

Carmen died in Madrid at the age of 63, on July 25, 1911. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 15, 1998, and her canonization has been set for October 21, 2012.