Every morning we attended the Catechetical sessions with hundreds of others to learn more about our Catholic faith. We heard from different cardinals, each teaching us a lesson that dealt with the themes of World Youth Day. This particular day the session focused on the Holy Spirit. The Cardinal encouraged us to “stir up” the Holy Spirit living inside us. He spoke of the Holy Spirit’s desire to work in us and through us. We were also able to participate in Mass every day. It was great to receive the Eucharist with our brothers and sisters from around the world, truly coming together as the Body of Christ. Throughout the days there were different speakers, exhibits and concerts that we could attend. We had many opportunities to pray, whether in adoration, praying the rosary with friends, old and new, or taking time for personal reflection.
My own vocation was strengthened and confirmed during the pilgrimage. The Lord placed a desire in my heart to serve His youth and this desire only grew while in Toronto. When I went back to college I changed my major, the fall semester of my senior year, from Secondary Education, History to Human Development and Family Studies, so I could better serve the youth of the Church. The Lord has led me to work for his Church as a youth minister and college campus minister. The Lord was also planting seeds for my vocation of wife and mother. I attended World Youth Day with my future husband. At the time, though, we were just friends, not even thinking of dating let alone marrying each other. Five years after World Youth Day we were married. Now as husband and wife we share our experiences of the pilgrimage, we remember the married couples and parents and children who made the pilgrimage together and use their example and witness to help us deepen our faith and live our lives as Catholics as a family.
Pope John Paul II, before and after World Youth Day, has had a great impact on my life. His prayers and encyclicals continue to call me to a deeper spirituality, to a better understanding of my vocation as wife and mother and to a greater love of the Church. Over the past three years I have been studying some of Pope John Paul’s writings on family life and womanhood. He has touched my heart and has challenged me to be a better woman, wife and mother.
Statia (Sullivan) Brown is a wife and mother of two. She is an active leader in various ministry endeavors.
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