National Eucharistic Congress
NCYC: National Catholic Youth Conference, Indianapolis 2023
NCYC is an exciting, three-day experience of prayer, community, and empowerment for high schoolers who are Catholic and those that walk with them. Catholic young people and their chaperones come together to pray, learn, and grow in their faith. Teens are part of an enormous community of peers who love Jesus and their Catholic faith and aren't afraid to show it! Teens and youth leaders can together harness the experience and bring it back to their parishes!
When: November 16-19, 2023
Where: Indianapolis, IN
Teens, talk to your local youth leader about
attending NCYC. Parish and high school leaders, click the link to learn more about how you can take a group of young people.
Young Adult Adoration Nights
Young adults, college aged, 20’s, and 30’s and their families are invited to our Adoration Night, Friday, June 9, at St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Michigan City. Adoration will start at 7:00. There will be music, silent prayer, and an opportunity for Reconciliation. Afterwards, join us for fellowship time!
“It’s authenticity that young people expect.
They can detect authenticity and they want to be in relationships and so what Pope Francis really points us to is to meet people where they are and to accompany them on their journey. And if people think that by standing here and saying, “come on, I’m here, come on over, this is where I’m at, come here,” then you don’t have that one on one. So you kind of have to go, and it does take a little more work because one-on-one takes time to build relationships, but you say: “I want to walk with you and I want you to know the love of Jesus the way I’ve come to know it.” Young people have to know that you mean what you say, and if I say which I believe that my life is going to be for Jesus Christ and that his love for me is my guiding principle and the source of my ultimate joy, they will want to know “why?””
Bishop Robert J. McClory
The Diocese of Gary Office for Youth & Young Adults supports and strengthens those who accompany young Catholics as they encounter and follow Jesus Christ.
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