Christus Vivit (2020)

FAST24 Perth – Lent 2020: Christus Vivit

Friday 6 March & Saturday 7 March, 2020.

2020 Perth Program Schedule

Venue:  Our Lady Queen of Apostles Church, 55 Tudor Avenue South, Riverton, Western Australia.  

Parish Office Tel: (08) 6188 6877

FAST24 Admin Email: CatholicYouthApostolate@gmail.com

Cost: AUD$10 per participant, payable on-site.

The FAST24 Program is modular, which allows new participants to join in at various key entry points if they can only attend at certain times of the day.  Hence, please let us know which selected sessions you will attend via the options provided in the Registration Form (check/tick the relevant boxes). Registration is essential for ALL participants.

PART ONE – “GOD LOVES YOU” – FRIDAY EVENING 6th March

17.30PM

Participants check-in at the Parish Hall. 

18.00PM

Community dinner: “a last supper” together in the Parish Hall

18.45PM

Preparations for the Stations of the Cross (involving participants)

19.00PM

The Way of the Cross (outdoors if weather permits. Meet inside the church)

19.30PM

Introductions and Orientation (in the Parish Hall)

20.00PM

Opening Song

20.15PM

Session 1: Listen to What the Spirit is saying

Guest speaker: Fr Peter Porteous OSM.

22.00PM

For Participants not taking part in overnight sleepout:  return home to rest overnight.  

For Participants taking part in overnight sleepout: “Creative cardboard bed” fun activity.

23.30PM

Overnight participants: 

(Bring Your Own Sleeping Bags and/or use the Cardboard sheets provided.)

PART TWO – “CHRIST IS YOUR SAVIOUR” – SATURDAY MORNING 7th March

07.00AM

For Participants who took part in overnight sleepout: Rise and shine / Freshen up. 

For Participants who did not take part in overnight sleepout: Assemble for Part 2 of the Program.

07.30AM

Morning Mass (Sat Weekday) in the church

08.00AM

Motivational Sing-a-long (P&W) in the Parish Hall

08.30AM

Session 2: Sharing Salvation stories

Presenter(s): Reshma Mathew and the Young Adults Group of Riverton Parish

11.00AM

Introduce FAST24 “Your Salvation Story” artwork (scarf/stole design) activity. 

11.30AM

Break / free-time for fellowship / freshen up.

12.00PM

Motivational Sing-a-long (P&W).

PART THREE – “CHRIST IS ALIVE” – SATURDAY AFTERNOON 7TH March

12.30PM

Session 3:  Love Always Wins

Guest presenter: Philip Boon

14.00PM

Break / free-time for fellowship / freshen up

14.30PM

Lectio Divina and Centering Prayer Experience

16.00PM

Sacrament of Reconciliation and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

17.00PM

Free time to continue FAST24 “Your Salvation Story” artwork (scarf/stole design) activity.

18.00PM

Evening Mass (Sun Vigil) in the church

19.00PM

FAST24 Dinner (break fast together).

Conclusion and Acknowledgements

“Every man and woman is a mission; that is the reason for our life on this earth. To be attracted and to be sent are two movements that our hearts, especially when we are young, feel as interior forces of love; they hold out promise for our future and they give direction to our lives. More than anyone else, young people feel the power of life breaking in upon us and attracting us.

To live out joyfully our responsibility for the world is a great challenge. I am well aware of lights and shadows of youth; when I think back to my youth and my family, I remember the strength of my hope for a better future. The fact that we are not in this world by our own choice makes us sense that there is an initiative that precedes us and makes us exist. Each one of us is called to reflect on this fact: “I am a mission on this Earth; that is the reason why I am here in this world” (Evangelii Gaudium, 273).”

— Pope Francis, on World Mission Sunday, 20 May 2018 (Solemnity of Pentecost)