Prayer

Participants have the opportunity to experience and share in many forms of liturgy and prayer during the NCYC—not to mention celebrating the closing Mass with 25,000 others!

Meditation areas and a prayer center allow youth and adults the chance to pray and reflect either alone or in small groups. Mass is offered each day of the conference, as well as opportunities for the sacrament of reconciliation, Eucharistic adoration, recitation of the rosary, prayer through music, a labyrinth experience, and numerous other devotions.

Please refer to the schedule for particular opportunities and sessions.

Information for Priests - Priests wishing to concelebrate the daily and/or closing Mass must provide their own alb and stole. Likewise for those wishing to hear confessions. More information on times and locations will be available in the program book at NCYC.

Adoration

On Friday morning as part of the general session at Sprint Center, there will be time for Eucharistic Adoration. NFCYM knows that not all NCYC participants are familiar with this traditional Catholic practice. Therefore, we offer the following excerpts from a resource developed by our friends a LifeTeen, a collaborating member of NFCYM.

What is Adoration?

Did you ever wish that you had a “pause” button for life? You know, the ability to pause the really important moments so that you could more fully enjoy them? In a way, Eucharistic Adoration is a "pause button" for our encounter with Christ at the Mass when we receive him in his Body and Blood.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is a form of prayer that began centuries ago. The same Eucharist we receive at Mass is what (or more accurately who) we worship in Adoration. A consecrated host is displayed in a beautiful sacred vessel called a Monstrance. The word “monstrance” means “to show.” The monstrance allows Christ’s body to be seen and “shown” to us - so that we can be present to God as he is present to us in his Eucharist.

It is very important to remember that Adoration is a prayer that flows from the Mass; it does not take the place of Mass. During Adoration, we have the opportunity to come face-to-face with the living God. Like spending time with a close friend, Eucharistic Adoration is about deepening and strengthening our personal relationship with God.

What Is Going On?

During the Friday morning general session of NCYC, our Lord—in his Most Blessed Sacrament—will be brought into Sprint Center for a time of Eucharistic Adoration. The Eucharist will be in a monstrance (designed to display the Blessed Sacrament) and accompanied by candles and incense. During the time of Adoration there will be prayers, Scripture readings, a reflection by Cardinal DiNardo, music, and periods of silence. All of this is to help you better focus on the presence of God before you in the Eucharist.

Adoration will end with a specific blessing called Benediction. During Benediction, we will pray together some special prayers known as the Divine Praises and Tantum Ergo. The priest will then bless us with the Blessed Sacrament.

After Benediction there will be a Procession of the Blessed Sacrament from Sprint Center to the Kansas City Convention Center. This is an opportunity to proclaim to everyone through our visible witness and prayer that we believe in Christ’s true presence and that Christ reigns!

 

 

Song List

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'Hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.' Prayer, formed by the liturgical life, draws everything into the love by which we are loved in Christ and which enables us to respond to him by loving as he has loved us. Love is the source of prayer; whoever draws from it reaches the summit of prayer.

CCC 2658

 

Prayer in the events of each day and each moment is one of the secrets of the kingdom revealed to "little children," to the servants of Christ, to the poor of the Beatitudes. It is right and good to pray so that the coming of the kingdom of justice and peace may influence the march of history, but it is just as important to bring the help of prayer into humble, everyday situations; all forms of prayer can be the leaven to which the Lord compares the kingdom.

CCC 2660

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learn More about Adoration

Download the Adoration Resource (1.63 MB) and make it available to participants and parents alike.