Sharing: June 2017 Youth Gathering at St. Anthony’s Church

Several volunteers and I organized a youth gathering at St. Anthony’s Church on June 17, 2017.  There were twenty youth attending the gathering including the volunteers.  The topic for this gathering was “互联网在生命和信仰中的影响”(=The Influence of Internet in our Life and Faith).

We prayed together the prayer to St. Don Bosco followed by a game.  I gave VCD from Hong Kong Diocese Vocation Commission “Echoing” as a gift for the volunteers of the game then gave a short introduction about World Communication Sunday and then two of the participants took turn to read the message of Pope Francis for World Communication Sunday (https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/communications/documents/papa-francesco_20170124_messaggio-comunicazioni-sociali.html) and an article on a local Catholic newspaper ”教你取舍网上教会讯息” (=Teaching you how to sort out Church news on the internet) while watching in mute mode part of World Youth Day Closing Mass and video of Asian Youth Day 2017.  

There were small group discussions and group report after watching the short video “Look Up” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY)

Here is the link of the pictures: https://www.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0EbuWrFm4ZM2iP&emid=shareprintviewer&linkid=link

Hong Kong, June 20, 2017

Sr. Anastasia B. Lindawati, M.M.

Let’s do simple things with simple love to make God’s love visible

Sharing: Jun 2017 Youth Gathering of Holy Family Church

Several volunteers and I organized the youth gathering on June 10 - 11, 2017 by going overnight to Huizhou.  There were 47 youth including Fr. Lu, the volunteers and I.    

We left after daily Mass by bus.  It took around one and a half hours. Mr. Liu gave short introduction about our program and the Fr. Lu led the prayer and singing together. 

My group lost during the game so we should eat biscuits with wasabi as the penalty.  After settling down our room arrangement we had lunch at a nearby restaurant.  Ms. Deng prepared the ambiance of our common room with several Mother Mary’s images including our Lady of Marykoll and then led the session on Mother Mary.  There were presentations of each group about their group’s name related to Mother Mary and small group sharing.  The names of the groups are Immaculate Conception, Our Lady of Sheshan, Our Lady of China, Black Madonna, Our Lady of Lourdes and Our Lady of Fatima.  Our theme song was 公教青年 (=Catholic Youth), here is the link:   https://youtu.be/1aUO7vHxhs8

I helped several volunteers in preparing the barbeque for a while and then finishing the summary while several youth went to the beach.  We started our barbeque dinner around 8.00 p.m.  Several youth played card, sang karaoke, performed live music show, etc.   

I went to the beach (again) to see the sunrise the next morning.  After breakfast, Fr. Lu said the Trinity Sunday Mass. I gave the summary including asked Mr. Wu to read the letter about Private Revelation from Chancery of Hong Kong Diocese and gave away pendant of 100^th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima from Our Lady of Fatima Church Cheng Chau – Hong Kong and several rosaries for those who could answer the questions about Mother Mary. 

We went back to Shenzhen after having lunch at the nearby restaurant.

Here is the link of the pictures: https://www.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0EbuWrFm4ZM2hh&emid=shareprintviewer&linkid=link

Hong Kong, June 16, 2017

Sr. Anastasia B. Lindawati, M.M.

Let’s do simple things with simple love to make God’s love visible

Sharing: May 2017 Volunteer Training at St. Anthony’s Church

  The second part of the youth training at St. Anthony’s Church was organized on May 13, 2017. 

Ms. Zhuo led the noon time prayer from the breviary as per my suggestion because Fr. Lu was not available to lead the praise and worship.

I edited a little bit the power point of the program prepared by Fr. Bruno for a Putonghua workshop in Maryknoll Stanley House Hong Kong.   The training was based on “8 Habits of Highly Effective People.” There was an activity, Bible passage before mentioning each habit followed by small group discussion and group report.   My tutor helped me to add the details of the activities on the power point so that it will be easier to be understood than only listening to my instruction.  I led this second part training on four habits.  Around 17 volunteers attended it.  I asked one of them to read the Bible passage. 

It’s an opportunity to reach out to more people in mainland as my wish.

Here is the link of the pictures:  https://www.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0EbuWrFm4ZM2hD&emid=shareprintviewer&linkid=link 

Hong Kong, May 16, 2017

Sr. Anastasia B. Lindawati, M.M.

Let’s do simple things with simple love to make God’s love visible