On 12-14th of February the second volunteer meeting took place. 50 people from Redemptorist parishes have expressed their will to assist at the Redemptorist youth Congress that will be held in August. Participants kept coming from Friday night up till Saturday morning. Exactly then, at 9 am with joint prayer the training began. At the first meeting members of the organizing committee shared the detailed information about the contents, program, and schedule for Lviv-2010.
On 25-26th of September the first volunteer training took place in retreat house at redemptorist monastery in Holosko. More than 50 people from different communities arrived to create a new volunteer team. Young people from Novoyavorivsk (“UYC” – “Ukrainian Youth for Christ”), Kochavyno (“Kochavyno stars”), Ivano-Frankivsk (“Angelette”), Chernihiv (“Unity of hearts”), Kamyanec’-Podilsky (“New generation”), Ternopil’ (“St. Alphonsus youth ” and “Light of Mary”) and Lviv (“Light of Christ”) participated in training.
During these days everybody had an opportunity to get to know each other, to have fun, to pray together, to learn how to work as one team. Though it was rather cold, and there were no spare blankets, the volunteers kept a warm and friendly spirit.
One exercise at the training was particularly exciting for all of us – players had to construct buildings out of different materials, and no words were to be spoken aloud. Surely mutual understanding was troublesome, but on the other hand one should simply be more attentive in order to hear the other person. For “uh”, “mmmh” and huge round eyes can tell a lot, and in the end you’ll get not even a cottage but a palace, with arbours, domestic birds, and people to live in.
Evening time witnessed a burst of creativity as young people staged miniature performances, showing their future work during the meeting. In a fun and interesting way it demonstrated our volunt
eer’s ability to cope with problems, no matter how difficult these might be.
Volunteers have learned to realize how important it is to work as a team. Often it is necessary to substitute each other. For instance, technical team will have to ‘communicate’ with foreigners. These guys are even ready to teach them Ukrainian :)
All we are very different. Somebody is “reliable”, the other one is “fun”, or “ascetic”, or even “fruit-jelly”, as we used to talk about each other. Still we all are volunteers, a lot depends on us. It is only our joint effort that will help us to carry out this meeting, and demonstrate our Ukrainian hospitality and love to God and one’s neighbours.
Lviv-2010 Organizational Committee
As the tradition every two years Lviv Province of CSsR provides Youth Festival on which are participating youth communities from our parishes. This year from July, 30 till August, 2 in Ternopil the Youth Festival was organized by eighth time
The Festival with slogan "May They be One" invited us to unite our hearts.
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