Still growing in Spirit

13 Jun 2012

By The Record

Grace is for a lifetime, not just a one-off, incredibly important event.

That might be the most obvious inference of Holy Spirit Parish, City Beach’s actions in welcoming the Year of Grace and confirming 39 young people on Pentecost Sunday (May 27).

The parish community provided each candidate with a copy of YouCat – a young person’s catechism – recommended  by Pope Benedict XVI.

A representative from Holy Spirit Primary School said the book was given as a resource to assist confirmation candidates throughout their faith lives.

It also provided answers to young people’s oft-posed questions.

In the forward he wrote for YouCat, Pope Benedict said young people were passionate for real answers:

“Some people tell me that the youth of today are not interested in the catechism, but I do not believe this statement and I am certain that I am right … young people want to know what life really is about,” the Pope said.

“A crime novel is compelling because it involves the fate of other people, but it could be our own; this book is compelling because it speaks to us of our own destiny and therefore is closely related to each of us”.

YouCat was the official catechism of World Youth Day Madrid 2011 and is available from The Record Bookshop.