World Youth Day 2019 USA Leader Guides Stateside Leader Guide | Page 63

You will need: in regard to their vocation, career,
• The Bible relationships, studies, etc. This could be set up
• Paper and pens for everyone (or ask them by a discussion about discernment and Pope
ahead of time to bring a journal, especially Francis’s message about the theme of Mary’s
if they kept one at WYD) Fiat from Luke 1:38.
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An altar or an offering bowl
Next, do a guided meditation or Lectio Divina
Start with an opening prayer that invokes the with the focus on vocation, acknowledging
Holy Spirit or that utilizes the Pentecost need for the Lord’s guidance, praying for
reading (Acts 2:1-11). others in our lives who need the Lord’s
guidance, and how to act on these needs.
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
All: Come, Holy Spirit, After the meditation or Lectio Divina, ask:
fill the hearts of your faithful. • What images did you see?
and kindle in them the fire of your love. • How did you feel?
Send forth your Spirit • What do the concepts of vocation and
and they shall be created.
discernment mean to you?
And you will renew the face of the earth.
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Leader: Lord, who by the light of the Holy
How has the Lord’s call been manifest in
your life in the past?
Spirit instructed the hearts of your faithful,
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Are there certain relationships you need to
grant that by the same Spirit, we may be truly seek out or from which you need to step
wise and ever rejoice in your consolation. back?
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
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All: Amen.
Is there someone (or a group of people)
on the periphery whom God is calling you
to love?
Using the questions in the previous section,
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give the pilgrims a chance to write about their
Where can you be a witness of God’s love
in the world now?
WYD experience and to reflect on where and
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how the Lord might be calling them to
How do you see yourself witnessing to
God’s love in the future?
courageously step forward in faith, especially
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“Prayer to the Holy Spirit “from A Book of Prayers.
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