Sydney World Youth Day Missions 2008 Gallery
34 young women from the United States, Mexico, Canada and France came together for three weeks of missions and World Youth Day festivities. Missionaries hit the streets of Sydney in order to get "the word" out about World Youth Day by asking for prayer intentions and inviting people to come back to the sacraments and attend the Closing Mass with the Holy Father. Other mission activities included packing 36,000 lunches for the Closing Mass at Randwick racecourse, a scavagelization hunt around downtown Sydney, and passing out pamphlets during the Friday Stations of the Cross. Fr. Anthony Robbie of St. Dominic's parish in Flemington was very impressed with the young women's commitment to bringing a message of enthusiasm about World Youth Day to his parish and community. He spoke to his parishioners about the great lengths the young women went to in order to pay and fundraise for their trip to come to Australia. The lives of the young missionaries were also impacted greatly as a result of the mission. One of the participants, Mary Linz, commented, "Christ really touched my heart. I have been giving so many excuses and He broke down my barriers."
Check out an article about the missions from the Regnum Christi webpage!
