Last August, I hosted an open meeting for anyone interested in going to World Youth Day in Rio. I also started a Facebook group which gained considerable interest. Who wouldn't want a chance to go to Brazil for 10 days? As with most things, time and money limited many from committing. Through the months, twelve have stayed strong. We are now a little flock. Twelve plus me, Fr. James. And while I am very very far from being Jesus, I am excited that our group is Twelve. And plus me, thirteen. Like the first group (well, let's say, the group with Matthias replacing Judas!!!)
We are excited to be preparing for our journey to World Youth Day. The motto for WYD RIO 2013 is "Go and make disciples of all nations" ~Matthew 28:19. And so we want to share with you our spiritual and physical journey. It is in a way an endeavor to first make ourselves disciples and then to evangelize our world. Just like the first disciples. He started with Twelve. So do we. We spend time with the Lord because that's what they did. We break Bread together at Mass, we pray, we spend time and we, of course, fundraise together. Although we use new media and may have to beg some dollars here and there, may everything we do be filled with Jesus' Spirit. May the answer to everything we do be: "Because that's what Jesus did."
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