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How might these people, moments, and
learned about other wonderful people
elements of the World Youth Day
on the way to and from Kraków?
experience impact your life after the event
4.
has finished?
What one action will I do to keep the
Are these moments, words, and people
moments, words, and encounters of
pointing you towards something that needs
World Youth Day alive in my life
to be adjusted in your life – or are they
beyond the World Youth Day
affirming a direction, decision, or inkling
experience itself?
that you have had up until now?
Action: Encourage pilgrims to keep these four
pages in their journals, Bibles, or in a special
Activity: Four Things
place where they can refer back to these notes
Action: Once the small groups have finished,
and resolutions during the weeks, months, and
come together in the large group and ask every
years ahead of them. Encourage them also to
pilgrim to write down four things on four
take these pages into prayer with them.
sheets of paper:
1.
2.
3.
What is one way that the exciting
Closing Prayer
moments of the international World
Good and gracious God,
Youth Day can help me to find the
thank you for the moments of grace,
grace, grandeur, or transformative
the words of wisdom,
experience of God in simple things and
and the wonderful people
in situations of everyday life beyond
you put along our paths
World Youth Day?
to and from World Youth Day.
What word, passage, or speech from
May they continue to guide us
World Youth Day will carry me through
in all that we do, in all that we think,
the coming days, weeks, months, or
and in all that we are,
years beyond World Youth Day?
now and for the rest of our lives. Amen.
Who in my everyday life do I need to be
Our Father, who art in heaven…
more intentional about meeting and
Hail Mary, full of grace…
knowing more about, just as I met and
Glory be to the Father…
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