Youth Retreat for YOV Oct 2006

YUVA,Youth Retreat on 21 & 22 Oct 2006.

YUVA,Youth Retreat was a great success. All most 300 Youth came fromVijayawada diocease.

The Retreat started opening greetings of Most. Rev. Bishop Prakash Mallavarapu on 21st 10 AM after that we started some action songs and Fr. Balaswamy, director of Social Service Center gave a very brief introduction about theme of the Retreat " WHO AM I " and after that

Fr. Lamu Jaya Raju took first session and he gave very nice talk and told that we are children of God and God has choosen us specially with all the bible references. After that we break up for Lunch .

We stated afternoon session with Praise & worship followed by action songs and Professor Bala took session on personal development and how we can be a good citizen by following christian moral values , after that we had a tea break and time to refresh. 5.30 we started Rosary Prosession and climbed the Gunadala hill to attend the mass.

Our Bishop was already reached their to celebrate the holy Eucharist and we had a wonderful Eucharistic celebrations on Gunadala Shrine. After mass we had a Candle light procession from Top to bottom of the hill and after reaching down we call celebrated the Light festival by lighting some crakers and we had delicious fellowship meal.

After dinner we had a 45 minutes Devotional musical orchestra followed by Kaladharshini dance skit. Theme of the skit is 10 virgins waiting for the Bridgegroom and it went on 30 mins and it was coorditated by Fr. Ravi Saker , Director of Kaladharshini , Institute of Music and Fine Arts. After that program we had one skit and some songs sung by youth of different parishes of Vijayawada Diocese.

22nd October

7.30 we started with prise & worship songs and Fr. Ravi Sakher celebrated mass for us and after that Fr. M Prasad , Chairman of RCM Schools Society , vijayawada took session and conducted workshop on Whom am I and we breaked for lunch after some announcements.

Lunch was very delicious with Vijayawada Biryani and Chiken curry and after session we had some action songs and skit and finnaly Fr. Bosco took session and JESUS YOUTH and made the youth in to different groups conducted CELL Group prayer and it was so touching and most of them experience God and some even got visions and many of them took strong commitment that from now on thy will stand for the God and ready to pay what ever the Price may be.

Finally YUVA, A Youth Retreat for Youth of Vijayawada diocese became a two days JESUS YOUTH formation Program