Hospitality

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Welcome and Introduction

• Welcome
• Hospitality
• Youth centred
• Joyful
• Simplicity

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Statement of Purpose

• Our mission is to serve and inspire
• young people, both local and international,
• on pilgrimage to Sydney.

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Statement of Purpose

• We aim to do this through
• Celebrating our Catholicity in the living Church
  of Melbourne
• Providing hospitality for pilgrims
• Creating spaces where the gifts of life and faith
  are exchanged
• Simple and authentic Gospel witness

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Statement of Purpose

• We acknowledge our dependence
• on the Holy Spirit to guide us
• in this mission.

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JCI Background Information

• What a fantastic spectacle is presented on this
  stage by your gathering here today! Who claimed
  that todays youth has lost their sense of
  values? Is it really true that they cannot be
  counted on?
• Pope John Paul II

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JCI around Melbourne

• 26th April 10th May, 2008
• Accessible to all to touch and encounter
• Key Host Parishes and Schools

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Your JCI Role

• Melbourne WYD Office will help!
• Initial meetings
• Collaborative approach
• Enthuse and animate

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Your JCI Role

• Report regularly
• Promote the events
• Be as inclusive as possible

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Promotion of Events

• Advertise widely
• Be creative
• Involve the young people

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Resources

• The first resource is your regional or local
  people!
• Cross Roads
• JCI Guidelines for Key Host Parishes and Schools

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Resources

• John Rhynehart
• Email jrhynehart_at_did08.com
• Fax [phone]
• Phone [phone]
• Mobile [phone]

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Sample JCI Event

• E-18 of Training Manual

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Your DID08 Role

• Establish a working group to assist you in this
  task
• Encourage fellow parishioners and the Parish Team
  to be involved in preparing simple and prayerful
  experiences
• You are the animator and facilitator of all this
• Ensure that local and international pilgrims
  experience the living Church in Melbourne
• Simplicity of prayer, liturgy, cultural and
  tourist activities is essential

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Your DID08 Role

• To share the social justice mission of the local
  Church
• Consider the various parish models included in
  this manual
• To facilitate the planning and execution of this
  program
• International pilgrims needs will need to be met
• Early in 2008 you will have the opportunity to be
  in touch with the leader of the international
  pilgrim group

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Your DID08 Role

• To devise a program which caters for
  international pilgrims needs as well as the
  needs of the local pilgrims
• Read the items listed in the Key Highlights
  section of this manual
• To prepare one key activity each day between 8.00
  and 11.00 a.m.
• To advertise the program throughout the entire
  parish and the wider suburb

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Promotion of Events

• Local parish and school communities
• www.did08.com
• Melbourne WYD Offices Business System
• Advertise widely
• Be creative
• Involve the young people

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Resources

• No right or wrong way!
• Use your parishioners/school staff, students and
  parents
• Use the parish models

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Parish Models

• Non prescriptive
• Not exhaustive
• Use as a stepping stone
• E-13 E-17 in the Training Manual

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Actions

• Read the proposed parish models
• Begin discussing how your Parish or School may be
  involved in JCI
• Begin discussing possible DID08 events

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Actions

• Talk with your Parish Priest and Pastoral Council
• Make contact with your local civil authorities
• Start engaging your parishioners as potential
  helpers

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Questions