World Youth Day 2019 USA Leader Guides International Leader Guide | Page 67

family and friends, and those with whom NOTE TO LEADER: Gather the group back
you have shared details of your trip. together and assemble into small groups, which will use
the following questions to guide their conversation:
Explain: Consider all these different people
you encountered. Call to mind their faces, their Action: Organize the pilgrims into groups of 3
voices, and their words. Pray for them. Now to 5 persons for some additional questions;
consider the following questions, and reflect on encourage pilgrims to be open if they are
them on your own: comfortable doing so.
● Where did you encounter God along the Explain: Being grateful for the moments,
words, and people of this pilgrimage, discuss
way?
the following questions, as you feel comfortable
● What moment, what words, what person
doing so, with one another:
paved the way to this encounter?
● When did that moment of God’s grace ● How might these people, moments, and
come to you? When did you notice it? elements of WYD impact your life now?
● Are these moments, words, and people
● How did it feel? What did you think? What
pointing you towards something that needs
did you do when you noticed God there?
to be adjusted in your life – or are they
● What might the Lord be asking of you in
affirming a direction, decision, or inkling
these encounters with these people?
that you have had up until now?
Explain: Take a moment for silent prayer, to
thank God for giving you this experience. Activity: Four Things
Thank the Lord for the moments, for the Action: Once the small groups have finished,
words, and for the people you met – and for come together in the large group and ask every
having a chance to encounter him on the pilgrim to write down four things on four
mountaintop of WYD. sheets of paper:
Small Group Discussion 1.
What is one way that the exciting
moments of WYD can help me to find
the grace, grandeur, or transformative
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