World Youth Day USA Guides International Pilgrimage Leaders Guide | Page 75
What was your favorite prayer experience
from World Youth Day?
difference in your community now? In your
What was the most impactful thing about
parish, diocese, movement, or nationally?
traveling to Kraków and Poland?
How do you imagine you can make a
Where do you feel God is calling you to go
next? What are your future plans?
Where did you find peace or illumination
while on your pilgrimage?
What did the Holy Father (or a bishop,
Coming down the mountain can be sobering,
catechist, or leader) say or do that really
but also exciting – for God has great things in
impacted or challenged you?
store for the pilgrims of World Youth Day. For
Who are the memorable people you met at
the past thirty years, World Youth Day alumni
World Youth Day? Where are they from?
have done amazing things in the Church and in
the world, inspired and motivated by the
How was this pilgrimage experience
experiences of this international pilgrimage.
different from the vacations or excursions
you may have taken in the past?
Many of those who have had such an impact
How do you plan to keep in touch with the
were assisted by leaders who accompanied and
new people you met at World Youth Day?
guided them along the way, especially in the
Who do you wish you could have brought
critical time after the events of those respective
with you on this pilgrimage?
gatherings. Jesus accompanied Peter, James,
How will you bring that person into the
and John down Mount Tabor, continuing to
experience now that you are back home?
journey with them to Jerusalem, supporting
How will you engage stateside pilgrims, as
them when they struggled and doubted, and
well as friends and family at home, in your
encouraging them to go forth to preach the
continuing pilgrimage of faith?
Gospel. The pilgrim leader follows in Jesus’
How has your relationship with God
footsteps as they, too, continue to journey with
changed or been enhanced by this
their pilgrims and equip them with the tools
pilgrimage experience?
they will need to turn their transformative
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