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Coming Down From the Mountain:
Accompanying Pilgrims on the Return Home
Nourishing the pilgrim’s experience of
they cannot live on mountaintop experiences
discipleship after World Youth Day requires
alone. The exhilaration of the World Youth
intentionality and forward thinking. It is not
Day celebration can quickly fizzle, no matter
just a day or an experience that occurs on a
how fantastic it was in Poland. Yet arriving in
particular date or in a specific place, but a step
the U.S. does not mean everything is finished;
along an ongoin r