Matthew Shields (left) and Erica Bernard met in Broome recently to discuss World Youth Day - a week of festivities in Sydney in July 2008. Matthew works with NATSICC (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council) and Erica runs the WYD08 desk for the Diocese of Broome.
Photo: CAS

Issue 6, September 2007,

Highlights:

Editorial

Viewpoint

World Youth Day

That's what they do... An Artist - for Pride, Peace and Country

Office of Justice, Ecology and Peace - Aboriginal issues must not become political football again

The Good Samaritan Ministry celebrates sesquicentenary

Long serving employee awarded

Rosemary awarded for outstanding work in community

Tall Ship Sailing

KCP Magazine

WYD08 - World Youth Day

World Youth Day 15-20 July, Sydney 2008

Dear young pilgrims of the Kimberley.

It is less than a year to go before the wonderful event of World Youth Day in Sydney.

It is our plan to leave Broome on a direct flight for Sydney on Saturday 12 July and return on Wednesday 23 July 2008. I invite
you to attend this spectacular event as a pilgrim and to register by the end of October. Remember there are a limited number of places available.

We will be staying together for the event in a Parish not far from the place of the main event – a Mass with Pope Benedict to be held at Randwick Racecourse. There are a huge number of other events across Sydney which you will be attending. Seeing the largest city in Australia and appreciating what it has to offer is attractive enough. However, you will also meet hosts of other young people, some
600,000, from countries throughout the world. This is a moment in the life of Australia not to be missed.

Please contact your Parish
Priest or Church Leader to register
as soon as possible.

With every good wish and blessing.
+Christopher Saunders
Diocese of Broome

Message from the Holy Father in preparation for World Youth Day 2008
Wednesday 4 July, St Peter’s Square, Rome

Dear young people,
One year from now we will meet at World Youth Day in Sydney! I want to encourage you to prepare well for this marvellous celebration of the faith, which will be spent in the company of your bishops, priests, Religious, youth leaders and one another. Enter fully into the life of your parishes and participate
enthusiastically in diocesan events!

In this way you will be equipped spiritually to experience new depths of understanding of all
that we believe when we gather in Sydney next July.

World Youth Day is much more than an event. It is a time of deep spiritual renewal, the fruits of which benefit the whole of society. Young pilgrims are filled with the desire to pray, to be nourished by Word and Sacrament, to be transformed by the
Holy Spirit, who illuminates the wonder of the human soul and shows the way to be “the image and instrument of the love which flows from Christ” (Deus Caritas Est, 33).

My dear young people, until we meet in Sydney, may the Lord protect you all. Let us entrust these preparations to Our Lady of the Southern Cross, Help of Christians. With her, let us pray: “Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful,
and enkindle in them the fire of your love”.

For further information contact Erica at:
The Kimberley World Youth Day Office at St Mary’s College (old Kindy)
Ph: 08 9193 5032
Mobile: 0427 970 028 Fax: 08 9192 2599
Email: kwydc@stmarysbroome.wa.edu.au
World Youth Day Sydney 2008
Website: www.wyd2008.org

1st September 2007

– 318 days to go!

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