Representatives from various Episcopal conferences will gather in Rome later this month to do a post-evaluation of the World Youth Day celebration held in Madrid last August 2011.
Fr. Conegundo Garganta, executive secretary of the Episcopal Commission on Youth of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, and Maria Victoria Tacderas, senior staff of the National Secretariat for Youth Apostolate (NSYA), will participate in a post-evaluation international meeting of the concluded World Youth Day (WYD) celebration.
Garganta said the meeting will be a sharing of experiences during the WYD 2011 in Madrid.
“We, from the Philippines, particularly ECY was asked to deliver a 10-minute report and in that report, the Pontifical Council for the Laity Youth Desk expects that there will be reports about the pastoral implications or the pastoral gains from the young peoples’ experiences during the World Youth Day celebration,” he explained.
Garganta emphasized that the meeting will raise the issue on how the international celebration helped today’s youth, their mission and vision as members of the Church and how it enhanced their spiritual life.
The priest said there had been a 100% positive feedback from the young people who participated in the international gathering.
Garganta noted that the report shows positive gains/effects from the youth in their involvement during the World Youth Day 2011 Madrid celebration, as most participants have grown in their understanding of their relationship with God, their role in the Church and the significance of the Eurcharist in their life.
He furthered that the report also mentions the participation of the ECY’s official media delegation to document and cover the Filipino youth participants during the World Youth Day celebration.
YouthPinoy! the youth media arm of the Filipino Catholic Youth was the one who conducted the media coverage for the Filipino delegation. (Jandel Posion)
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