Actual pictures of the accommodation taken in April 2008.
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World Youth Day Gathering Deux: Wooden Cross of Christ
Posted by Natasha Yong Labels: Gathering, Official Matters
Patrick giving a run down of all administrative matters
Preparing our spirit for WYD:
Officially our 1st prayer meeting as a group.
The Spiritual team lead us into a session of focusing on the wooden cross. A symbol - of Christ's love.
The Agenda as follows:
Part I
1. Opening Prayer
2. Showing of DVD
3. Role & Purpose of the Spiritual Team
4. Prior WYD Spiritual Preparations
5. Actual WYD Spiritual Programs
Part II
1. Praise & Worship
2. Readings and Reflections
Part III
1. Update on Insurance
2. Update on WYD Singapore T-shirts, S$15
3. Trying of shirts and giving of sizes
4. Financial Matters
5. Team updates from remaining 4 teams
6. Closing Prayer
A lovely mini booklet was created for the session:
Page 1 – Cover Page
Page 2 & 3 – WYD Spiritual Programs prior and during WYD
Page 4 & 5 – Hymns
Page 6 & 7 – 2 Readings and reflection thoughts and questions
Page 8 & 9 – Thoughts and questions for pilgrims to ponder and write till next Group meeting
Think Fr. Damien was mentioning about French guys bunking at the church after WYD08. Sab certainly looked excited...
Hanging around before lunch
Lunch hang-out: VivoCity Long John's Silver
It's all coming together. Week by week, day by day...
We're drawing closer to World Youth Day 08' in Sydney. Oh, before I proceed further... have I mentioned that we'll be flying there in style? On SIA's Airbus A380?!?! It may just be economic class tickets... with a really nice personal media screen... but the fact that it’s an A380 deserves some bragging rights.
What started out as a thought to gather a bunch of young adults from St. Teresa, ended up with a nice group of 24 consisting of SMU, STC and the Redemptrist Mission Team (RMT). It's a great mix of old and new faces. It's strange how everything and everyone just fitted together perfectly and it truly affirms me that God is indeed the master planner.
We had WYD08 Gathering UNO at one of SMU's lecture room at the Economics and Social Science building. I'm speaking for myself here... but it is pretty effortless working with Patrick, Geri and Dennis. I love the fact that things moves along and we all get each other. Apart from breifing up on all the nitty gritty logistical and financial stuff; the bunch was broken up into 5 main groups. Largely to split up the workload leading towards and during WYD.
The group roles included:
WYD Logistics Party
Shirt & Banner Party
Sponsorship/Souvenirs Party
Spiritual
Media & Publishing Party
My group picked up being the Media & Publishing Party. Mainly directed by Fr. Gerard cause he felt it was something that we all had some talent doing. But hey, he's the priest... and you don't really want to go against a priest...
It turned out that Shawn had connections with Catholic News and also personally knew Joyce who's following up with some writing on the event. Yet again I thought; how appropriate.
We had initially figured there will be war and violence over the selection of the group roles... but again, everything fell into place... it was becoming too perfect!
We couldn't stop teasing Wendy all through the night. She ended up in Fr. D's group - Spiritual! Towards evening, she purchased a Youth Bible and attended a Tridum Healing Mass by Fr Gino Henriques!
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