I am here in Australia for World Youth Day.  The largest youth gathering in the world.  This one happens to be really Catholic.  500,000 Catholic Youth and the Pope are here.  We slept the first two nights in hangers, on the concrete with 1,000 other pilgrims from all over the world.  

As always, the soccer ball was an amazing catalyst for community building.  The Frizbee was more an object of wonder and confusion.

The kids in the group are awesome.  They are slowly getting into this whole thing.  Like me, things overtly Catholic freak them out a little.  We are doing morning Catechesis together - in our own way.  I understand they are a little more interested in other things.  One of the boys stayed up all night making out with a Kiwi girl from a Catholic Boarding school.  gotta love that.  It really flows well into our lessons of the HOly Spirit.  

More later