PDYD2 HEATING UP!!

Youths from St. Francis de Sales, Sitiwan

With just four months more to go Penang Diocese Youth Day 2 is beginning to get heated up. 

With the cross and the icon having completed 54% of its journey through out the diocese and the road show crews going around parishes promoting and exhibiting the event, many youths are being well informed and are excited about participating in this auspicious occasion.

PDYD1 Logo

Penang Diocese Youth Day came into existence firstly in 2008 in The Parish of Our Lady of Lourdes Silibin Ipoh. It was sparked off with a group of parish youths with Fr Dominic Santhiyagu the Diocese Youth Coordinator who envisioned to re-create the World Youth Day experience here in the Diocese of Penang, and thus in 2008 Penang Diocese celebrated the first Diocese Youth Day .

PDYD2 Logo

After 3 years, once again the youth office of the Diocese of Penang has decided to organize the Penang Diocese Youth Day 2 with the theme Rejoice In The Lord Always (Phil 4:4) from the 16^th to the 19^th of November 2012. This year the event will be celebrated in Land of the Pearl of Orient (Penang Island) with an estimation of 1000 youth coming from all over the Diocese for 4 days and 3 nights. 

Cathedral of Holy Spirit

They will all gather together in the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit on the 16^th of November 2012 for the opening ceremony and mass after which the youths will be sent to their lodging places in the 4 different parishes according allocated according to their language groups around the island and they will be transported around in charted buses. Some youth will also have the opportunity to stay with foster families around the island who will look after them and transport them around during the course of the event. 

Martyrs of College General, Penang

Once in the respective parishes the youths will attend catechesis presented to them by well known priest’s and eloquent speakers who are experts in the respective topics. The youths will also go through interesting workshops and many activities lined up for them. They will also have time to go around the island as tourist to visit many historical sites and religious places of worship which will educate them on the richness of this small island spiritually and economically.

Church of St. Anne, Bukit Mertajam

The climax of this whole event will take place on Sunday in whereby the participants will go on pilgrimage trip to St.Anne’s Church in Bukit Mertajam after spending two nights in their respective parishes and foster families. All these youths will travel together to B.M for the closing ceremony which will begin with the way of the cross around the church grounds and a night concert performed by the Prodigal Disciples from Klang and the youths will have a great time singing and praising God in an open door field. 

Pope Benedict XIV  taken using
personal camera in WYD,Madrid

During this the same time youths will be exposed to the various religious orders that will have their exhibition booths around the parish ground for two days to help these youth in their vocation and discernment.   With a grand final mass the youth would have had excellent weekend of fun with God and HIS Spirit through HIS ministers.