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Oblate Youth Involvement – 2008

Last week we celebrated the work and lives of our Oblate priests.  In July 2008, the Oblate community came together in an inspiring gathering of youth as Mazenod College hosted the International Oblate Youth Encounter.  In reflecting, Mazenod teacher Patrice Stevens (nee Costin), one of the MCs of the event, remembered the Encounter with excitement as 850 young people came together at the College and at a cross-cultural assembly at Federation Square to celebrate their faith and the joy of life.

Following this amazing experience, 100 Mazenod Pilgrims travelled to Sydney to join nearly half a million young people from over 200 countries gathered to celebrate World Youth Day 2008. As Fr Michael Twigg commented, it was ‘a timely reminder of just how much the world can learn from youth’. The International Oblate Youth Encounter and World Youth Day have only been held in Australia this one time.  Leave Nothing Undared!

You are invited to access digital copies of all past Mazenodian magazines in the Mazenod College Digital Archive.

If you have memorabilia from your association with the College and would be willing to contribute it to the College Archives, we would be most grateful.

You may contact the archives at archives@mazenod.vic.edu.au.

Camilla Elliott

College Archivist