Eucharistic
Our Eucharistic Youth Rally is a response to our late Holy Father’s challenge to young people at World Youth Day 2000 in Rome .  There he challenged them to:

“Set the Eucharist at the center of your life:  Love the Eucharist, Adore the Eucharist and Celebrate the Eucharist.”

 Pope Benedict XVI has once again reminded youth that:

“The Body and Blood of Christ are given to us so that we ourselves will be transformed in our turn.  We are to become the Body of Christ, His own Flesh and Blood.”

 The Rally is a challenge first and foremost to enter into a more personal encounter and union of heart and mind with Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Christ.

 Youth

“Even a tiny flame lifts the heavy lid of night. How much more light will you make, all together, if you bond as one in the communion of the Church! If you love Jesus, love the Church !”

(World Youth Day 2002, Toronto )

 This response is primarily intended for teens, middle and high school aged, who have a desire to fan the flames of their Catholic faith.   It is a Christ-centered and youth-oriented event!

“You are our hope, the young are our hope. Do not let that hope die! Stake your lives on it! We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures; we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son.    (World Youth Day 2002, Toronto )

Rally

To come together for a common purpose;  A gathering, especially one intended to inspire enthusiasm for a cause; To rouse or revive from inactivity or decline; To reassemble and restore to order.

 “I know that you as young people have great aspirations, that you want to pledge yourselves to build a better world. Let others see this, let the world see it, since this is exactly the witness that the world expects from the disciples of Jesus Christ; in this way, and through your love above all, the world will be able to discover the star that we follow as believers.”

"Because there is one bread, we, though many, are one body", says St Paul (I Cor. 10: 17). By this he meant:  since we receive the same Lord and he gathers us together and draws us into himself, we ourselves are one. This must be evident in our lives. It must be seen in our capacity to forgive. It must be seen in our sensitivity to the needs of others. It must be seen in our willingness to share. It must be seen in our commitment to our neighbors, both those close at hand and those physically far away, whom we nevertheless consider to be close.”
    (World Youth Day 2005, Cologne )