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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
5th Archdiocesan Youth Congress

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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.
Local WYD


World Youth Day 2008

Sydney, Australia
July 15-20, 2008
 

What difference will you make?

By Jason Baguia

Printed in Cebu Daily News Life
July 22, 2008
 
SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES - World Youth Day literally ended with a bang, fireworks lighting up the sky over Randwick Racecourse with trees and the University of New South Wales in the backdrop minutes after the Pope announced Madrid, Spain as the next WYD in 2011.

Last Saturday morning we walked towards the racecourse from St. Joseph's church in Rosebery for about 30 minutes, praying the rosary and singing hymns while doing the pilgrim walk.

Our group did not go through the walk across Sydney's Harbor Bridge as thousands of other pilgrims did, but I was personally fortunate to have opened myself to being lost in Sydney on Friday night, which was how I got to walk the length of the humongous bridge, stopping in between Hail Marys to take photos of different sides of the Opera House.

Saturday night was an amazing experience, with an energetic concert presented by some of the most popular Christian contemporary artists in Australia, and a candlelight ceremony led by Pope Benedict XVI himself. He prayed that all of the youth of the world may experience anew the outpouring of the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit. In the morning homily the most poignant moment was when he asked the youth: "What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure? Are you living your lives in a way that opens up space for the Spirit in the midst of a world that wants to forget God, or even rejects him in the name of a falsely-conceived freedom? How are you using the gifts you have been given, the "power" which the Holy Spirit is even now prepared to release within you? What legacy will you leave to young people yet to come? What difference will you make?"

The Pope's words were often punctuated by applause that rolled from the periphery of center stage outwards of the venue. It was totally touching to experience the universality of Catholicism, singing "Receive the Power," with all the citizens of the planet, and on Sunday noon praying the Angelus in Latin, the church's unifying language.

Cardinal Rylko of the Pontifical Council for the laity wrapped up everything very well when he said that the youth of the Benedict XVI pontificate were proud to be the pope's sons, notwithstanding that John Paul the Great was the one who "invented" WYD. The cardinal thanked the pope for making WYD a mainstay on the church's calendar.

 
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