A Great Symphony of Prayer Westminster Youth Ministry 04 January 2024
THE WORLD HAS AWOKEN to a new year with a BIG mission to undertake. To raise up a great symphony of prayer as we embark on our international pilgrimage towards 2025, the Jubilee Year.
Pope Francis has requested that “I would greatly desire that we devote 2024, the year preceding the Jubilee event, to a great “symphony” of prayer. Prayer, above all else, to renew our desire to be in the presence of the Lord, to listen to him and to adore him.”
2024 is a year of pilgrimage, of preparation. Of spiritual and personal encounter with Jesus Christ, and of learning how to open our hands to receive, as Pope Francis describes, the “gift of grace” that the Father wants to to give us in the Jubilee Year.
How can we do this?If this year is the Year of Prayer, we must ask ourselves whether we pray, how we pray, whether our prayer draws us closer to God, and invites him in. And we must build communities in prayer, and prayer in communities.
In response to this great commission, Westminster Youth Ministry is launching a brand new series of RESONATE, beginning on 28 February 2024, working through the Lord’s Prayer. Resonate is Westminster Youth Ministry’s official Catholic intellectual formation series for young adults aged 18-35 within the Diocese of Westminster. More information below!
This year we’re also beginning to plan large Summit for youth aged 13+ in North London and Hertfordshire in the Spring. Details to come soon!