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Young Adult Pilgrimage to Taize

Visit the ecumenical monastic community of Taize, France from Sunday 11th to Sunday 18th July 2010.

Join other young pilgrims to one of the best known modern pilgrimages.

Organised by the Office of Evangelisation of the Archdiocese of Dublin.


For further information:

Office of Evangelisation: tel: 01-808 7538 e: evangelisation@dublindiocese.ie

Or  Rev. Damien McNiece  tel: 01- 8087553 taizedublin@gmail.com


Cost €400.00, which includes everything (flights, coach transfers,taxes, insurance and contribution to the Taize Community).

Knock Summer Festival.

June 25-27 - Our Lady's Shrine, Knock, Co Mayo.

€70 for food and accommodation.

This is a Catholic Youth Festival with prayer, music, reflection, talks, workshops, fun and more.
Contact Veronica Jackson in CYC (01: 8725055) e: vjackson@cyc.ie for more details.

 

 

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Welcome to Lectio Divina written with young adults in mind.  It is good to have you with us, no matter what your age.

We will use Sunday after Sunday the gospel text which is being used at Mass.  Most Sundays this text is taken from St. Luke with St. John’s Gospel occasionally used.  Our Lucan texts are taken from the “Gospel of Luke: celebrating the year of Evangelisation” which was launched by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and Bishop John Neill during Church Unity week 2010 in Trinity College Dublin.  Copies of this Gospel are available from the Office of Evangelisation in the Archdiocese of Dublin. - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

 

The prayer method we use is Lectio Divina (Sacred Reading).
It has four simple steps.
1 Lectio
Read the passage slowly a few times and then read the commentary that accompanies it.
2. Meditation
The questions posed will help you to see what the Gospel passage is saying to you in your life.
3. Prayer
Pray using the words of the Gospel to respond to the Gospel text.
4. Action
Reflect on what you have learned from the Gospel and apply it to your life.

May the Lord bless you as you read His word.




Sunday 14th March

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (Luke 15:1-5,11-32)

Then Jesus said, ‘There was a man who had two sons.  The younger of them said to his father, “Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.”  So he divided his property between them.  A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and travelled to a distant country, and there he squandered his property in dissolute living.  When he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that country, and he began to be in need.  So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs.  He would gladly have filled himself with the pods that the pigs were eating; and no one gave him anything.  But when he came to himself he said, “How many of my father’s hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger!  I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, 11r_prodigal‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands.’” So he set off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him.  Then the son said to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.”  But the father said to his slaves, “Quickly, bring out a robe – the best one – and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. And get the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate; for this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!”  And they began to celebrate.

Now his elder son was in the field; and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.  He called one of the slaves and asked what was going on.  He replied, “Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has got him back safe and sound.”  Then he became angry and refused to go in.  His father came out and began to plead with him.  But he answered his father, “Listen! For all these years I have been working like a slave for you, and I have never disobeyed your command; yet you have never given me even a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends.  But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your property with prostitutes; you killed the fatted calf for him!”  Then the father said to him, “Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.  But we have to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.”’


Lectio
This is probably the most famous story in the bible.  Read it slowly and notice the characters – the father, the young son, the older son.  Look at the painting on page 45 of the Gospel of Luke celebrating the Year of Evangelisation which powerfully illustrates the story.  Spend a bit of time looking at the verses associated with each of the characters.  Some people call this the story of the Prodigal Son, others the story of the Merciful Father.  What name would you give it?
Meditation

Select one of the three characters you most identify with?
What do you think you have in common with him?
Do you ever come across somebody like the father in the story? Who? Were you ever like him yourself?
In telling the story what point is Jesus trying to make?  How can older sons become like younger ones?

Prayer

Lord, when I sin against heaven and before you, I am no longer worthy to be called you son/daughter, I ask you to run out and put your arms around me and allow me to feel the same welcome as your younger son.  Amen

Action

What have I learned from this text?
What changes do I need to make in my life?


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Day of Action against budget cuts in Dublin Youth Projects.


On Wednesday 27th January at 4pm the coalition group Dublin Focus on Youth gathered in front of the Dáil to protest against further cuts to youth services.

The Coalition states that currently:

*Youth projects serve the needs of the most at risk young people across the city. A total of 33,790 young people participated in CDYSB funded youth projects in Dublin in 2008. It costs €20 million annually to keep these projects funded. This works out at less that €12 per young person each week

The group are calling for the reversal of the cuts in 2009 and want funding for youth work projects to be maintained at 2008 levels in order to maintain frontline services.

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