Dear All, This week the Melbourne Cup race was run and won, and that meant a winner for our diocesan World Youth Day trifecta fundraiser! Grace Healey, who attended the RCIA Conference in Port Pirie, was the lucky winner to take out $1000 for the horses 2, 8 and 19. I would like to thank everybody who participated in the World Youth Day Polish Party at the Whyalla parish. We had wonderful young musicians, took photos with Pope Francis, savoured Polish food and raised $359 to support our pilgrims. Dziękuję – that’s ‘thank you’ in Polish! The program is now out for the Australian Catholic Youth Festival, so check out what’s on offer and start planning your days: http://www.youthfestival.catholic.org.au/index.php/program. Whether or not you are going, please join us with this prayer below. See an opportunity for a religious short film prize and some advice from the Pope about young people and the Bible. God bless and Peace, Sr Elizabeth Young youthministry@pp.catholic.org.au 0448 809 134 Australian Catholic Youth Festival Preparation Prayer God of all, you gently call us each by name. As we prepare for the Australian Catholic Youth Festival in Adelaide, set us on a path to your kingdom. In a world were complexity and busyness cloud and distort our way, together we long for what is true and real. Continue to call us, O God, so that we may come to know and see you more clearly. As we gather from across this land of the Holy Spirit; may our hearts yearn for purity, that we may be authentic witnesses of your love. May we truly come to see God in the faces of all your holy people. Amen. St Mary of the Cross MacKillop pray for us. The Religious Short Film Prize Open to all film-makers - from all religions or no religions. Length of film to be up to eight minutes. Closing date is 5pm, 26 February 2016. Entry fee $50. Prize $5,000. For more information or to submit a film go to www.creativitypillar.org.au The Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture The Bible in Your Hands “The Bible is so dangerous that some Christians risk persecution to have one. But for Pope Francis, its life-changing role in daily life is important too. ‘The Bible is not meant to be placed on a shelf, but to be in your hands, to read often – every day, both on your own and together with others’”…Read more at https://aycw.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/pope-francis-tells-young-people-the-bible-is-your-most-precious-treasure-now-read-it/ Remember those Year 12's doing their exams in your prayers