World Youth Day USA Guides Stateside Pilgrimage Leaders Guide | Page 73
You may want to have the questions typed
out on the page or placed somewhere that
What might the Holy Spirit be calling
you to with your life?
they can visually see them to help them focus.
Have your plans changed since
World Youth Day? If so, how?
After some quiet journal time, consider doing
Ask them to write down some ideas on what
a guided meditation or Lectio Divina with the
their future might look like, especially in how
focus on mercy and on how God is calling
their future plans might yield a life of constant
them to be merciful in the mission and vision
mercy, compassion, and forgiveness. Ask
for their lives. The focus of the reflection
them to write a petition to God for clarity in
could be acknowledging our own need of the
discerning those ideas. Invite the pilgrims to
Lord’s abundant mercy, those in our lives that
pray for one another, to support the others in
need the Lord’s mercy (and thereby our
their search for meaning and purpose in light
mercy), and how we might prayerfully
of God’s call, and that their lives going
consider putting that mercy into action.
forward will be ones where they can put
mercy and love into action, witnessing to
After the meditation or Lectio Divina, ask:
Christ’s mercy on the Cross.
What images did you see?
How did you feel?
Conversation: Vocation
What do the concepts of mercy and
After this exercise, include time to discuss the
forgiveness mean to you?
notion of vocation. Discernment leads to
How has the Lord’s mercy been
clarity around one’s vocation in life – that is,
manifest in your life?
whatever God ca