Promo girls for God’s Kingdom: WYD Vocation Expo was a huge success!
By bluepanjeet on Jul 20, 2008 in World Youth Day
The first ever ?Vocations Expo,? in the history of the church which has given religious congregations a chance to showcase their charisms and apostolates to the young people attending World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney has been ?a true success,? organizers have revealed. Diverse congregations, institutes and movements are reaching out to the thousands of young people that have flooded the vocations fair located at the Sydney Exhibition Center at Darling Harbor. The vocations expo was opened on July 15 and will end on Sunday, July 20, at the close of WYD. According to Father Donai Pellonar, coordinator of the Vocations Expo, ?This initiative aims to show the young people of WYD all possible vocations, including the priesthood, the family and the vocation to religious and consecrated life.?
Seventy five institutes, congregations, religious families, movements and associations have set up booths at the vocations expo. AN order of New York City nuns hopes to recruit young Catholic pilgrims to the priesthood and sisterhood during World Youth Day (WYD). The Sisters of Life order, which has convents in the Bronx and Manhattan, is expecting 20,000 WYD pilgrims to visit the “Life and Love” site near the University of Notre Dame campus in inner Sydney during the six-day event. The sisters will hold seminars and present an expo on life vocations with talks on love and parenting.
Pilgrims considering entering a seminary or convent, or those curious about marriage, can visit the site at Chippendale. “Many of the sisters discovered their vocations at World Youth Days when they were literally immersed in a microcosm of faith and support,” Sister Mary Gabriel said. She said WYD was an opportunity for pilgrims to hear the calling of a religious vocation. “I do anticipate that many, many young people will discover their vocation, whether that’s to marriage and family, to religious life, to enter the priesthood, across the board. “I do believe that this event will open the
The entrance to the Vocation Expo
Crowded lobby of the Vocation expo
Banners and stalls of the religious
Pilgrims shopping for the right seminary, order or congregation
Can you find a needle in a hay stack?
Bird’s eye view
Vocation.com-sponsored coffeee moments at the vocation expo
Sister something uses the laptop to connect with her sisters outside Australia
A young lady and her little sister search for more answers in this Congregation’s booth
Sisters are all smiles as the Young Lady inquires about their order
Nuns from the Sisters of Nazareth (not the weeping kind) entertains two young seekers
Nuns acting as Promo Girls for God’s Kingdom
Franciscan friars looking at one of the Expo’s features
A Statue of the Virgin Mary is placed in one of the booth’s of the expo
Father Priest asks a lot of question about Sister’s order.
Unidentified sister arrived early in the Vocations expo
The Diocese of Sydney spearheaded the campaign for Vocations at the vocations expo
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