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| World Youth Day is one of the world's most phenomenal experiences: the gathering of young people from every continent, every language, every country and nation. These events occur every two or three years and give young people the opportunity to celebrate their faith, meet one another and to be transformed by the experience. | ||||||
| This year Lancaster Diocese is being represented by a group of 15 who will be travelling to Australia. We will spend one week with families in Melbourne to get a taste of the local church in Australia before moving on to Sydney where 500,000 young people are expected to gather. We will be staying in Coogee Bay, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and travelling each day to the different events which are being staged around the city: catechesis, festivals, live stations of the cross through the streets of Sydney, and an all-night vigil and Mass at Randwick Racecourse with Pope Benedict. At the moment the young pilgrims are busying themselves with fundraising initiatives: an endless array of hotpot dinners, bag packing, bingo nights, jumping out of planes... you name it - anything to get there and to be part of this global event. | ||||||
As well as fund-raising, the pilgrims have also been preparing spiritually, most recently with a retreat at Ushaw College, Durham. For this they joined with Leeds Diocese and looked at the Transfiguration. Here's some photos of what they got up to...
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Our
cheese & wine evening raised an amazing £800 altogether and
was a fantastic night with 7 parishes attending in total!
Gill Walsh, Fleetwood |
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On Saturday 19th April, a group of Lancaster’s intrepid World Youth Day pilgrims took part in a fundraiser so surreal that some of them are still not sure whether or not it actually happened! The day began in Lancaster at the Pastoral Centre but soon progressed to Hutton Roof, a mountain-top between the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales. Once there, we proceeded to carry up two tables and accompanying chairs, cutlery, glasses, plates, tablecloths, three courses of food and Trangia cooking stoves. Once the ideal location had been found, the tables were laid, the food prepared and formal dining clothes were donned. It was quite a sight for the passing climbers and walkers! Our ‘extreme dining’ was a sponsored event and despite the cold and the wind that blew the food into our faces and all over the tables, a strange, but enjoyable time was had by all. The only problem was that after a delicious meal, we had to carry it all back down again! Emma Kirby, 18, Fleetwood |
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