Fr. Roger J. Landry
Eucharistic Convention in Auckland, New Zealand
“Take Courage: I Have Overcome the World”
Sacred Heart College, Glendowie
Youth Night
July 12, 2019
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The outline for tonight’s talk was:
- Introduction
- Taking Courage in Jesus’ victory over sin and death
- The fears of the young man in the Gospel to following Jesus all of the way
- The examples of courageous young people following Jesus all the way
- Mary
- St. John
- Saints listed by Pope Francis in Christus Vivit
- They all discovered that following Christ is a great adventure.
- Ten ways to unite ourselves with the Risen Christ and follow him on the great adventure
- Responding to his call to pray
- Responding to his call to loving God with all we’ve got and loving others
- Responding to his call to mercy
- Responding to his passionate desire to give himself to us in the Holy Eucharist
- Responding to his call to live off of every word that comes from his mouth
- Responding to his summons to share the faith with others
- Responding to his invitation, like St. John, to take Mary into our home
- Responding to his summons to love and build up the Church
- Responding to his call to discover and say yes to our particular vocation in his plans
- Responding fully to his call to be holy as he is holy
- The Risen Christ is with us in all of these ways and seeks to help us interiorly not to be afraid and follow him ultimately on the path to overcome the world with him and share his eternal victory
