Antioch Youth Movement Hosting of the Cross and Icon 11-12 January 2008

The WYD Cross & Icon were entrusted to the Antioch Youth Movement from 10.00am Jan 11^th to 9.00am Jan 12^th.
Antioch youth from 14 parish Antioch communities in NSW participated.
The main events were hosted in the Parish of St Mary & St Joseph, Maroubra Bay which was the site of the first Australian Antioch weekend 1981. The Parish enthusiastically supported the event and participated in many of the liturgies.
The event continued for the full 23 hours with an all night vigil. It concluded with a 2.6km dawn procession and final Mass at the Bali Victims’ Memorial at Coogee.
During the event, there was a three-hour combined meeting of Antioch communities. The rest of the time was taken up with a series of liturgies which were open to all who wished to attend. Some of these were organised by a central State team and the remaining sessions were divided into one hour time periods in which individual Antioch communities took responsibility for animating the veneration of the Cross and Icon.