Pope Benedict XVI:Already today, in the contradictions and sufferings of this world, there shines the light of hope for a new life.The Church’s mission is to ‘infect’ all peoples with hope.
Hello my dear missionaries in Jesus Christ,
Yahooooo!! Its a MISSION Sunday... Are you ready to Love and Serve one another??
Then rush to BEGUR
Don't know where?? "John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life ..."
Let's celebrate JUBILEE HOLY MASS for the month of OCTOBER
OCTOBER - "Month of the Rosary". Ya , Mama Mary is Present too.
Time and Venue:
October 24, Sunday , 3:00 pm - 5:00pm
St. Ignatius church, Begur
Don't forget to invite your friends and families....
For Directions contact: Vijay - 9900811568, Paskal - 9916926646
As a part of the Jubilee celebration, Jesus Youth Bangalore is celebrating the Monthly Jubilee Holy Mass. This will be celebrated at different areas of Bangalore every month where we have JY presence.
We will mark the beginning of the Jubilee Monthly Holy Mass On 29th of this month from whitefield.Requesting all JY's from different areas to take this outreach to a new place as a mission and join in.
Venue :St Theresa Novitiate,Whitefield, Bangalore (Near Forum Value Mall)
Date & Time : 29th August, 3pm -5pm
We invite you all for time of Praise & Worship followed by the Holy Mass.
Please contact Riju - 9611733011 for directions.
Jesus Youth Bangalore under the leadership of Jesus Youth St.Josephs Campus Prayer group is organizing a one day youth gathering for all the north east friends staying here in Bangalore.
Have you experienced the Lord's touch in your life and is thirsting for a deepened relationship with him? This retreat is for you!!
Look through the program outline below and you will realize that it contains the perfect recipe for a strong and mature spiritual life - growth level sessions on Personal Prayer, Word of God and sacraments, followed with sessions and testimonies on family life.
This stay-in retreat and happens at Upasana, close to RRC, starting at 8.00 AM on August 7, Saturday, with breakfast, and ending by 5.30 PM on August 8, Sunday.
The seats are limited. So, please call 9886173338,9916477350 or 9845214905 to confirm a seat. Registration fees is Rs.300 which can be worked out if you have a difficulty.
If you are serious about your spiritual life, take the time out to attend this retreat and you will be glad that you did! May the Spirit lead you.
Day 1 - August 7, Saturday Session 1: The call to Holiness
Be Holy as the one who called you is holy (1 Ptr 1:15)
Do not be afraid to become the saints of the new millenium(PPJP II)
Need for holiness at home, workplaces
Answering the Lords' call to holiness
Session 2 - Importance of Personal Prayer
Remain in me(Jn 15:4)
How it will transform you?
Taking the Lord's presence with you.
How long and when should I ideally pray?
Session 3 - Challenges faced in personal prayer.
The violent take the Kingdom of God by force (Mt 11:12)
Extremely busy at work?Odd job times(Night Shift?)Boredom and dryness in prayer..Married, with kids, and not finding time to pray?...etc You will find answers in this session
Session 4 - Constituents of Personal Prayer
Lord, teach us to pray(Luke 11:1)
Importance of a method of prayer
Usual constituents of a time of prayer
How to hear and follow God's special call for you?
Session 5 - Using the Word of God in prayer
Sword of the Spirit(Eph 6:17)
Importance of memorizing the Word of God
Allowing WOG to transform you
Using WOG in personal prayer and intercession
Day 2 - August 8, Sunday
Session 1 - Drawing from the source and summit of Christian Life
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood(Jn 6:53)
Why transformation through the Eucharist doesnt take place in our lives?
Session 2 - Holiness in Family Life
And God said, it is not good for man to be alone(Genesis 2:18)
Acceptance of one's (future)spouse
Preparation in prayer and the need for prayer after marriage
How to make your spiritual life bear fruit in your family and community?
Challenges faced in building a family after the heart of God
Session 3 - Prolife
The marriage bed should be kept undefiled (Hebrews 13:4)
Keeping holiness in marriage
The rarely touched topic: The Sin of contraception
Pro-Life Marathon 2010 - A National Campaign Against Female Infanticide and Feticide
www.prolifemarathon 2010.com
· According to a recent report by the United Nation’s children’s’ Fund, up to 50 million girls and women are missing from India’s population as a result of systematic gender discrimination in India.
· According to the 2001 census, the national sex ratio was 932 girls for 1000 boys.
· India, now, has 930, 000 missing girls every year due to female infanticide.
· There are 6 million abortions taking place every year in India alne!
· Is it not time for us, friends, to act on this issue?
Come, let us fight against this female infanticide and killing of the unborn.
To create awareness about this devilish act of killing innocent lives, SANTHOME YOUTH ASSOCIATION of Bangalore, in association with South India Cell For Human Rights Education and Monitoring, Al-Ameen Educational Society, Respect for Life India, Dharmaram College and Group of Institutions, St. Thomas Forane Church, DVK, St. Johns Medical College, St. Philominas Hospital, St. Marthas Hospital, Christujayanti College, Jesus Youth , etc. conducts a Pro-Life Marathon.
· Date and Time: 1st August 2010, 06.30 am to 09.30 am.
· Registration is free. A goodie bag will be provided to every runner.
· Venue: Dharmaram Ground, Christ University.
· Distance: 9.9 Km, covering Diary Circle, Jayadeva Hospital, BTM Layout, Silk Board, Madiwala and Christ University.
We are looking for your participation.
Yes, your participation will bring immense joy for the next generation of the new born.
Visit and register ::: www.prolifemarathon 2010.com
Dear Family, This is a very brief update / report on the Bangalore Nurses Meet –“THE CALL” that was organized at the DVK Auditorium, Christ University Campus, Bangalore, from 12th June 2010, 8:30 am to 13th June 2010,5:30 pm.
The Spirit of the Lord was in move all throughout the meet and we believe the participants got a better understanding of their life as a whole, of their profession - nursing and about “THE CALL” in their life. About 470 participants from 20 colleges attended the meet. The presence of priests, nuns, other religious, parents, JY Leaders, JY Elders, etcetera was a blessing during the meet. The full time presence of Fr.Tomy - animator of the Bangalore JY Nurses ministry, Fr James MCBS -animator of the Karnataka JY Nurses Ministry and other priests was of great support and help to the program team.
Efforts with regard to intercessions and prayers, the prominent reason behind the success of the program, had started about 60 days before the program. I take this opportunity to specially thank Shelu for coordinating the intercessions and all the members of the intercession team.
Food was not bought from outside, but cooked on premises and this points to the excellent effort and hard-work put by the Food Team of the program, headed by Mr Praful, Mr Liju (2009 Blore full timer), Dijil and all team members. They worked 24hours starting from Friday evening, without sleep or rest. I take this opportunity to specially thank all the members of the food team and pray to God to reward them abundantly.
The campus team and the attendees of the recent DTP program put in a great effort to support the various activities. I thank them and the Teens Ministry members for the efforts put in for the success of this meet.I thank the decoration team coordinated by Mr.Jomy from Kanjirapally and Lloyd of the campus ministry for their hard work.
A special thanks for Mr. Abishek (National coordinator),Mr.Joby (Previous Nurses National coordinator) and Mr.Renish for supporting us and helping us with their valuable suggestions and above all for their presence and prayers.
The Music Team did a marvelous work not only by leading the participants to wonderful moments of praise and worship, but also by writing, composing and tuning a fresh theme song, exclusively for the program, which was very relevant and meaningful with respect to the nursing profession. I take this opportunity to thank Jomichan, Alphonsa, Dayana, Senofer, Rinto, Manu, Rindo, Hanson , Hashish, Anila, Aashish,Franklyn and all others for the wonderful music that they played.Special thanks to Mr.Shine and family for guiding the music team. The Audio Visual ministry did a great job, preparing well by practicing the action songs, etc. for about a month to teach new action songs to the participants. I thank them all, from the bottom of my heart.
I specially thank Mr.Dino (JY Pro life Coordinator & Bangalore,Service Team Member) for educating the nurses how they can be a prolifer in their profession. I thank the local arrangements team (Eldhose, Blesson, Sanju, Thomas,Shibin & others ) the accommodation team (Sabish and all campus ministry members), the liturgy team (Prince and all teens ministry members ),Media ministry (Jino,Patrick,Benny,Jorgey ), Registration Team (Miss Nisha) and all the volunteers for all the help and help that they extended.
A special note of appreciation to Bangalore professionals team members and family group members(Mr.Rinu,Mr.Roshan & Mr.Jude) for supporting the Nurses Meet financially.
I thank Miss Reejamol, the coordinator of the whole program, Mr.Thomson, the Bangalore Coordinator, Mr. Frijo (KJYT), Mr.Vinod (ElderKarnataka Nurses), Dr Joe Bangalore nurses elder, Tijo (KJYT) & Ms.Alphonsa for the excellent support all through the program.
Thanks to everyone for the support you have given for the nurses meet through your prayers. I thank the Almighty God for giving us an opportunity to grow in his love and calling the nurses to His love. -- Regards, Santosh JY Bangalore Service team member & JY Bangalore Nurses Coordinator
JY Bangalore is organizing a one day Audio Visual Gathering for all interested in exploring his/her acting skills for the Glory of God. Participants will have to get their own food for PotLuck - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potluck
Date : July 4
Venue : Christ University Campus
Contact Person : Stalin - 9742338327 , Llyod - 9538913974
MOTHER MARY , ALL THE ANGELS AND SAINTS - Pray for us!
Please see below for a detailed write up of the Prolife Exhibition conducted at St.Anthony`s Friary church Madiwala on May 8th and 9th . Here it starts :->
As a part of Days Of Grace intercession happening at St.Antony`s friary till Pentecost, Bangalore JY service team decided to celebrate each week with a special theme and the week commencing from May 3rd was selected to proclaim the "GOSPEL OF THE LIFE".Prolife ministry Bangalore took responsibility of this week to conduct an exhibition on Sunday 9th May 2010. This was the first foot step to CELEBRATE LIFE SUNDAY.
Our initial plan was to conduct one normal exhibition and close the chapter. But discussions with prolife National team coordinator Anuraj gave wings to dream an excellent large scale prolife Sunday. After a month of discussions just a week before suggested Sunday some kind of confusions came up whether to invest such a huge amount of money in an exhibition like this.Then as usual during confusions in decision making we asked confirmation from JESUS through our Elder Joy Kottaram. Jesus gave us a full green light for a large scale exhibition also gave us a small warning to keep control of the Finances for this large scale exhibition. Now that we have got a green signal from Jesus and hardly a week remaining for the Exhibition Sunday and no proper arrangements done we had to rush. . Luke 18:27: "Jesus said, "What is impossible for human beings is possible for God." With strong trust in our master JESUS we started full-fledged intercessions with fasting commitments throughout the week, HOLY ROSARY`s ,offering HOLY MASS etc also we passed the prayer request to prolifers around Karnataka and number of HOLY ROSARY`s were offered and the fruits began to shower .God blessed us with highly talented 5 JY's from Kerala, and the parish was fully opened to us as we got permission to work day and night . We started our works on Wednesday morning and some new ideas came up, we go support from a professional JY designer who is aboard. JY`s from all ministries were available for exhibition, nurses ministry gave a big support in mobilization and also during the exhibition. The Bangalore Service Team gave us full support lead by its coordinator Thomson who was there with us day in and day out helping and guiding us in a every possible way. In the interim the Parish requested us to start the exhibition on Saturday itself as there will be a Saturday evening (Sunday HOLY MASS) which will be attended by many. We have mobilized this program across Bangalore in different ways and also through the news paper media. We were not yet finished with the arrangement but had to rush and put up an incomplete stall just before the end of Saturday evening HOLY MASS. The Exhibition was inaugurated and blessed by Rev. Fr.Babu (Provincial of Friars in India). We were blessed with Dr.Arun (Kerala JY Prolife coordinator) who came to help us . The exhibition started with lots of confusions and power failure which resulted in Video`s not been able to be displayed and lack of light inside the stalls. People came saw through and went out but we were not satisfied. That day night Anuraj and team and the members of Bangalore Prolife struggled through the whole night and by the GRACE OF JESUS after a whole nights work they managed to arrange and complete the stalls just before the end of first morning mass on Sunday 9th May. Early in the morning we were also blessed with the help of the Youth Night Vigil team from RRC who came and helped us after the end of the Saturday night vigil. The first mass got over and the crowd came in and went out through the exhibition stalls but something was missing and some of us were depressed as there was no perfection and some issues here and there. During this time we have send in people for intercession and by this time the second HOLY MASS was over and THIS was the moment when the Exhibition really started in a full-fledged manner. The priests of St.Antony’s celebrated the HOLY MASS completed with the theme of Prolife and we even had Fr.Sandesh (Asst Parish Priest) who took a real fetal specimen and showed during the HOLY MASS to all who attended the mass. The crowds after all the MASS were standing in a long queue to enter the Exhibition stall. There were a large number of people who came in and viewed the entire exhibition and were blessed to receive the message for life. There were some who even showed desire to join to the JY Prolife team to work and protect life. Prayer cards and Pamphlets were distributed to all and also we got the feedback forms filled from almost all the participants who came there. We also had pretty good sales on Prolife related books, Posters and DVD`s. Now to tell in detail what were the contents of the Exhibition lets go through the write up given by Joma who just came to help us during the exhibition. *********************************************************************************
May be a week before, my cousin Anila (JYNPT) invited me for an exhibition at St. Anthony’s Friary Church, Madiwala. Not knowing the impact or the importance, I decided to pay a visit to the place.
Early morning after the mass on 7th May the exhibition started. With a confused state of mind I joined some young zealous and energetic prolifers in their mission to spread the message. There were all together 7 stalls depicting how precious is the life we are gifted with and how we often take it for granted.
I decided to have a look at the stalls before taking a position. As I was about to enter I saw a model displaying a womb with a new life nurturing inside. There were two hands supporting the existence of that new formation - of a mother’s hand from below and our Lord’s hand from above. Admiring the theme I went inside. As I entered my eyes got caught on a cobweb. And on it were anti-prolife agents placed. A cobweb is formed when human life activity reduces in a particular area.
Now the poster presentations started bringing into light the factors which poison our lives without us knowing how deadly there impact can be. All the themes in the poster were supported by the “Word of GOD” which authenticated the subjects. Alongside the posters were the models portraying the various biological stages of a new life right from inception .
In between the poster presentations, there were two counters, one displaying a “Touch of life Fetal Models” and the others displaying the” Original Fetuses”. Through the touch of life fetuses, they were trying to make you realize how you were inside the mother’s womb – tiny, helpless but equally beautiful. Then the counter came where people spent most of the time looking at the display – “original fetuses which ones had life in them. Each fetus displaying the growth stage inside the mother’s womb . It started from a fetus with just 6 weeks maturity and ended up displaying a full-fledged, full term unborn baby. Another counter displayed beautifully the dream world of Angels Army for Kids. The stall offered attractive books and other materials on Angels’ Army.
After going through all these, I took a place where in I could comfortably sit and be a part of the exhibition without moving around and convincing people to stand against the threats to life. And this was the stall where the real life specimens were kept. I thought these specimens were self explanatory and on top of it, there was a volunteer who was actively explaining the details and urging people to stand for life. For quite a long time I was listening to the friend of mine whom I was assisting. Gradually I realised why this fellow volunteer was zealously trying to make others understand to stop abortion.
The realisation was in fact slow, but yes it did seep in. Those tiny human forms were lacking nothing which we had except speech. They were as human as we are. It’s just that we can’t see them and hear them. Had they been given a chance to live, they would have looked as beautiful as any other beautiful creation of God. God made woman in such a way that she could help a life to sustain within her for nine months. But Alas! The mother herself for known or unknown reasons, allowed her womb to be subjected to a cruel murder. They couldn’t speak or fight to protect themselves. So it is our call to fight for those lives which cannot stand for it. You may not get paid for standing for life in worldly manner but our Lord will be delighted at your birth on this earth.
So here I say, ‘Let’s be the voice of the voiceless and stand for “Life “the most precious gift from God.
Finally we ended up after the last HOLY MASS on Sunday around 8pm with a prayer and burning the displayed items of culture of death. This was really a day grace for all of us. The entire exhibition was a great blessing and this will open doors for Prolife in Bangalore in many different and positive ways.Special thanks JYNPT coordinator Anuraj who made this dream come true for Bangalore JY Prolife Team , Anuraj was working continuously for many days without even a proper sleep . Also thanks to the 5 members team who came to Bangalore from Kerala to help us . Thanks to one and all who helped us to make this dream come true .
Prepared By - Dino - Bangalore Service Team Member & Bangalore Prolife CoordiantorA A total of around 2000 people visited the exhibition and many more received the message of life through the Holy Masses on that day in the parish.
“May the game of soccer always be more of a means of teaching the values of honesty, solidarity and fraternity, especially among the younger generations.” - Pope
Holy Family Parish,Hongasandra is organizing a one day youth gathering called 'Youth Vibes' in the parish on May 30th(Sunday). This program will be led by Jesus Youth who belong to the parish.
Main Resources - Br.George Gloria , Mathew Joseph(ST animator,Bangalore).
Program Coordinators - Mathew Abraham, Anoop
Pentecost promises to set your heart on fire! Ensure you are present at St Patricks to receive power from on high. Inform others, spread the news... via a personal visit, or on your phone, send an email, make an announcement, bring the poor, tired, sick and weary.
The wind is blowing again...come and receive a fresh annointing!!!
It is with great joy that the organizers and participants await ‘Bangalore Nurses Meet 2010’. It is a project initiated by the Jesus Youth Nurses Ministry in Bangalore. Extensive arrangements are being made for the same and the endeavor bears the promise of rich fruit and the beginning of a revival in Bangalore . The program will be in English and that indeed is thing of joy for each of us who have been striving to reach the masses with the love of Christ at the zonal level.
Please find below the details of the program
Dates: June 12-13th
Venue: DVK HALL,
CHRIST UNIVERSITY
The target participant group for this program will primarily be from different Nursing Colleges and Hospitals of Bangalore. As is in the case of any evangelistic outreach of such a big magnitude, the need for finance and rotation funds is glaring, especially in these days of preparation. In this regard, we request you to contribute as generously as possible. Every mite received will be duly and gratefully acknowledged with prayers and a receipt. A break up of the expenses for the program will be provided on request.
Looking forward for your support both financially and mightily in prayers,
Yours in Christ,
SANTHOSH.N.I
BANGALORE NURSES COORDINATOR
A summer programme for teens – REACH ’10 - was organized by the Bangalore Teens ministry from 6th to 9th May in Carmel Convent School, Bangalore. The theme of the program was ‘Extend your Boundaries’. The programme was attended by 68 teens from different schools and parishes of Bangalore. Below is a brief write-up on the same by Cini Mathew who was part of the programme team for REACH '10.
One week before REACH ‘10 was about to start, nothing was in place; mobilization was not done, pamphlets were not printed, resources were not finalised. Nothing seemed to be in place, but still each member of the teens team had their hope on the Lord. REACH started on Thursday 4:30 pm with the registration. On 1st of May, not even 1 person was confirmed and on 6th May we had 68 participants registered. The first day just passed by, with no one really seeming to be interested.
The second day started with lots of confusion and lots of tension, but still no one lost hope. Amidst all these confusion, Lord showed His mercy upon each one of us. The session on God's love (which was the first session) was liked by all. Then was an activity where the teens themselves prepared and presented skit. Each team presented a skit, and it was well accepted by all. Then was the time of some game and enjoyment with paper dressing. After all this masti was the session and workshop on Confidence Building, which gave the teens an insight on how they could do great things with the help of Lord. After this, the teens attended a session and video presentation on Teen Saints followed by a session on Mother Mary which was taken by Deril (he is now doing his 1st yr BCA). The session was so well accepted by the teens that one of them even said “I want to be like this brother (Deril), when I grow up". It was followed by the Adoration taken by Br.George. It was such a beautiful time of Adoration that every participant felt the touch of Lord; they all said that they were able to feel the love of Christ.
The third day started well with God's grace, with a beautiful time of Praise and Worship, then moving on to Sin and Temptation, the session taken by Teena, followed by a session on Prolife. Then there was a session on 10 commandments taken by Jithin, and then was the time of confession. Many participants said that they were able to make a very good confession. They were able to open up their hearts after a long time and were so much relaxed. After the confession and Holy Mass, the teens attended a session on Holy Spirit, handled by Br.George. This was the day when God's grace and mercy was even more evident. Until 5:00 we were lagging behind by 1 hr, but by the end of the day all the session were over by 8:30 and we had time to even celebrate a teen's birthday and then clean the entire hall and go to sleep by 11:00. Such was the mercy of our Lord. He never left alone anyone of us, be it volunteers or teens. He kept each one of us in His care. The Inner healing session on that day was made more beautiful by the beautiful decoration done by the audio visual ministry and lead by Jithin.
The fourth day, we saw all the participants jumping around with joy after the anointing of the Holy Spirit lead by Jose Sebastian. Many volunteers, who were asked to lay their hands on the teens and pray, themselves felt the power of the Spirit flowing through their body. The anointing worship was followed by a session on the Word of God. Then there was an activity where the teens were asked to publish a newspaper on their past three days at the Camp. The response was awesome. Lord gave the grace that each and every teenager, all the 68 participants were involved in making the newspaper for their group. Total 6 papers were published, all with different names and unique creative ideas. At the end of the day, the parents also gathered to bless their children, they joined us for mass, lunch and then for a session on family values.
Over all it was a beautiful experience for each one part of the program, be it the volunteer or the participant. The Music ministry gave a very lively ending to the programme with very good action songs. The song "Chik Chik Chang" written and composed by Becky of Chennai was liked by all the participants and their parents. The Audio Visual ministry made the programme more colourful with meaningful skits in between sessions. The best thing was that, all the big resources were listed for the program, but everyone was busy at that time, so everyone part of team became the resources. The testimonies shared by the leaders of the Bangalore teens team was most inspiring. There was one girl Maria who was a participant of Philia'09. She gave testimonies that made each one to stand in awe of our Lord. His mercies never cease. She gave 3-4 testimonies without preparing. Lord Jesus was merciful on each one of us.
I would like to end this write-up by telling the line that Tulip got while she was preparing for MC - "God does not choose the qualified, but qualifies the chosen". It was indeed true in case of everyone part of REACH '10. He moulded and used each one of us. Glory and Praise be to our great and mighty Lord. His mercies never cease. So much of joy is there in my heart right now as I write this. Praise the Lord forever. Please continue praying for each participant of REACH and Chalo. The participants of both the programs touched all of our heart so much, that their love is still fresh in our hearts and mind.
As part of the ‘Days-Of-Grace’ initiative Jesus Youth Bangalore (Pro-life Ministry) is organizing a pro-life exhibition called ‘Celebrate Life’ this weekend (May 8th & 9th) at St.Anthony’s Friary Church.
Requesting your prayers and presence for the exhibition. It will be of great help to the organizers if you can share this information with all your friends and well wishers.
This exhibition is open for all in Bangalore. Be there, Get Friends and Support Life!
Campus ministry of Bangalore is organizing a DTP(Discipleship Training Program) for campus students from may 21 (evening 4pm) to may 29th(evening) at St.Norberts House , Near Hennur Cross ( KJC) , Bangalore.
Weekend Retreat for Professionals from May 14th 8PM - May 16th 4PM @ St.Norberts Bhavan,Near KJC , Hennur
The retreat would be a time of unwinding & experiencing Jesus to set us free.It would be a time of reflection on how we could live with Jesus everyday. The theme will be "Bloom where you are planted" with reference to the working world.
2010 is a very special year of Grace for Jesus Youth movement. It is the year when the movement celebrates the Jubilee, 25 years since the inception of the movement. A year to look back and thank the Lord for the long years of guidance and protection that He has been providing the entire movement. To make this season of Pentecost in the Jubilee year of the movement more unique and grace-filled, Jesus Youth Bangalore plans an itinerary of prayerful initiatives. These prayer initiatives are meant to give an impetus to the members in the movement to rise above their normal call and lift themselves, their neighbors and the entire city of Bangalore to a prayerful new high.
We plan to start these initiatives in different parts of Bangalore (like Whitefield, Bannerghatta areas) but the central adoration centre will be at St.Anthony’s Friary Parish. Through this initiative we also desire to make a dynamic contribution to the parish in her mission and call.
These adorations are inspired and in lines of the one’s we started across the globe and different parts of India.The Adoration in Centro San Lorenzo, the Int'l Youth Centre at Vatican from February 17th (Ash Wednesday) to April 4th (Easter Sunday) continues to receive an overwhelming response from various Bishops, Priests, Religious& the laity around the globe. Our blogspot http://jylentenadoration.blogspot.com/ provides details of this initiative, updates and responses/experiences of a few people who had the privilege to be a part of this initiative.
Our prayer campaign leading up to our Pentecost day (May 23) will begin on April 5th (day after Easter) taking us through 7 weeks of prayer monsoon. All live updates will be posted on this blog.
If interested to know more or contribute in week1 (April 5th – April 10th) contact – 9902399887
WHY ARE WE HAVING SUCH AN INITIATIVE?
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God (Phil 4:6)
The whole movement is going through a phase of purification and renewal this year. Also as the verse says, this year being a year of special Grace is the right time to intercede and pray for our needs. The main intentions that we will be lifting up in prayer:
Intentions of the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI
Priests & the Vocations to PriestHood
True Spirit of Metanoia to each member of the Parish Family
Needs of Catholic Church in Bangalore & Karnataka
Franciscan Fathers & all the Missionaries of the Church
Jesus Youth Movement
We ask the Lord to strengthen our movement and each one of us to respond to our call for mission with zeal and commitment. We also pray for the intentions of the Holy Father and to strengthen the Holy Catholic Church through more vocations, especially during this year of Priests.
HOW WILL THIS INITIATIVE BE PUT TO ACTION?
When: We will have the adoration which is the central initiative from April 5th (Easter Monday) to May 23rd (Day of Pentecost) everyday from 8am to 8pm.
Each day will be divided into 3 slots -- 8am-12pm, 12pm -4pm and 4pm-8pm. There will be a minimum of two people at any given time for the adoration.
We will have mission volunteers who will take 1 month commitments for this adoration. We will also have weekend, Sunday or weekday volunteers as well.
We will also promote and encourage people during their lunch breaks (spiritual lunch break), before work or after, before class or after, in their free times to walk-in to the adoration centre and join together in prayer.
Fast and pray slots (pray from office, class or home). Join the adoration virtually in case you can’t make it on a particular day.
As mentioned above these mission volunteers will be available throughout these 50 days to coordinate the smooth functioning of the adoration. These volunteers will be managing the office, communications and will also be looking into the materials needed at the adoration centre. These volunteers will also collect all the prayer requests via SMS which people will send out.
In addition to the daily adoration we will be having other initiatives in the parish in connection with the weekly themes (on weekends):
Proposed Itinerary:
Week 1 -- April 5th – April 10th (Sunday)
7 Week Jubilee Adoration- Daily adoration will begin today at friary.
Theme for this week -- Personal Sanctification & Purification.
Week 2 -- April 11th – April 17th
Theme for this week -- World, Media
Adoration continues….
Awareness about registering to the parish (befriending more youth), Special Youth Mass.
Week 3 à April 18th – April 24th
Theme for this week -- Youth the springtime of the Church
Adoration continues….
Special Worship evening, Youth Seminar on Faith & Reason, Relationships etc
Week 4 -- April 25th – May 1st
Theme for this week -- Teens, Parents, Family, Prolife
Adoration continues….
Pro-life Sunday (exhibition and awareness etc)
May 1st - May 2nd-- Special Weekend retreat for working folks – St.Norberts Ashram, Near Hennur Cross
May 1st – 2ndà Intercession Retreat @ Hassan (regional level)
Week 5 -- May 2nd – May 8th
Theme for this week -- Intentions of Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI and year of priests.
Adoration continues….
Taize Evening.
Priests gathering @ Bangalore (regional level)
Teens Summer Camp – May 6th (evening) to may 9th (evening) @ Carmel Convent, Near Diary Circle, Bangalore.
Week 6 à May 9th – May 15th
Theme for this week -- Poor
Adoration continues….
Outreach to local slums, orphanages, old age homes by different groups
Theme for this week-- Jesus Youth Movement and welcoming a new Pentecost
Adoration continues….
May 23 (Sunday) – Recommitment Day - Soul café, Solemn Mass, Healing Prayer
May 21st (4pm) to May 29th (4pm) @ St.Norberts Ashram, Near Hennur Cross - Discipleship Training Program for campus students
June 4th 9.00 am to 6th 4.00 pm @ Bangalore-JY National Team Reconstitution
“Lord Jesus we offer this prayer campaign leading up to the Pentecost into your hands. We pray that all that we do glorifies your majesty and authority over us. We pray that through this campaign you once again reign in our life in your full glory.O’ Christ hope of glory remain in us, refine us, renew us and make us radiant like you this jubilee year.
Mother Mary O’ holy mother - pray for us!
St. Francis Assisi, Patron Saint of Jesus Youth Movement - Pray for us! “
