Jesus Youth all over the world celebrated 27th May 2007 (Feast of Pentcoast) as Recommitment Day.

As part of Recommitment Day, JY Hyd also celebrated it in St.Therasa Women's College on 27th May 2007 .

JY Hyd gathered around 2 PM and it went up to 6 PM where they had sessions about HOLY SPIRIT Fruits and Gifts and ended with Recommitment prayer holding candles in their hands and surrender (Committed ) themselves once again to Jesus through the Jesus Youth Movement.

Machilipatnam Parish Preist Invited Jesus Youth to organize One day Jesus Youth Program in their Parish for the Youth of their parish on 24th May 2007

Fr. Bosco, Chakry, Chaithanya, Sashi, Kiran Gunal & Phani went to Machilipatnam and organized the program and also mobilizied the youth to participate in JY AP Initial Telugu Youth Retreat " Yesu Rammanuchunnaru" which will held in July 2007 in Vijayawada.

On 22nd May 2007 PREM and VIGNAN went to kurnool from Hyderabad .

Fr. Sunil, Asst.Director of Senai Divine Dhyanashramam asked JESUS YOUTH to give a session to the people attending the youth retreat. The youth were from the kurnool diocese.

After reaching kurnool at 12:30Pm: Vignan & Prem went to bishop house in the kurnool to meet Fr.Praveen(Regional youth director of Andhra Pradesh).

After having lunch they both departed to KDSSC and meet Sebastien there.

Around 3:00pm they reached "SENAI DIVINE DHYANA ASHRAMAM". and meet Stephen of cjits who had joined them from Hindupur, Ananthapur.

Abhishek of cjits who is in Nandyal joined us around 9:00pm after supper we started Jesus youth in session.
They started off with a few actions songs which brought them live after continous talks from the past two days. they had a small time of PRAISE AND WORSHIP- Which was lead by Prem and Stephan. The Prem shared small talk of 10 mins on the inwoke of Holy spirit as we are nearing to the feast of PENTACOST. Then vignan took over to give the JESUSYOUTH video presentations. It went on till 11:30 pm . In between which Prem shared his testimony about his life after coming into Jesus youth. He shared miracles that god has done for him for about 20mins.

Then they closed down with a short prayer. And everyone departed to bed.

Then Prem started back to hyderbad at 12:30am. And reached Hyderabad at 6:30 in the morning.

Vignan, Stephan and abhishek were there only . And they started session in morning at 6.30 AM with some action song follwd by Praise & worship by Stephen & Abhishek and stephen shared word of god and his testimony and even Abhishek shared his testimony too and finally Vignan took control of the program and summaried everything about Jesus youth and Fr.Sunil gave vote of thanks to Jesus Youth and everyone departed for Breakfast and after breakfast Stephen and Abhishek started to their places and Vignan went to Uppaldhadiya, via Gharkeyapuram which ins again 10 Kms from Senai Divine Dhyanashrayam, Kurnool.

Vignan meet Fr. Babu and when he went to that Parish , Fr. Babu asked him to share about Jesus Youth with the local youth of the parish and he shared the same and after lunch Vignan started to Kurnool which is again 25 Kms and meet Fr. Thomas Naidu and around 3.30 Pm he started to hyderabad from Kurnool Bus station.

On 19th May 2007 , 24 Hours Intercession program was conducted.

From 6 AM to 8 AM, atleast two Jesus Youth came togother and Interceeded for Jesus youth Activites as part of Recommitment Day Preparation in St.Jude's Shrine, St.Mary's Church , Sec'Bad.

From 8 PM - 5 PM , All the Jesus Youth gathered in Capitanio Convent Hall for Night Vigil.

During these 24 Hours Intercession they prayed for the follwoing Intensitions.

1. Intercede for the Youth of Hyderabad
Pray for all the youth who are lost in the world's desires to turn to Jesus – “The Way, The Truth and The Life.

2. Intercede for the Catholic Church
Pray that the church spreads God’s love in the world and help the people to come closer to God.

3. Intercede for the Evangelization of India
Pray for all the evangelizers, evangelization centers and the evangelization activities happening in India.

4. Intercede for Jesus Youth National Team Reconstitution
Pray for the people who are discerning the team and especially for the new team to be formed.

5. Intercede for the Pope, Bishops, Priests and Religious
Pray for God’s blessing and guidance on the Pope, Bishops, priests and the religious so that they can lead a holy life and reflect Jesus to the people around them.

6. Intercede for all the Families
Pray for all the families, to be strengthened and guided by God and especially for the relationship between parents and children.

7. Intercede for the Recommitment Day Preparation
· Pray for the recommitment day of the Jesus Youth so that all Jesus Youth recommit themselves to God’s call.

8. Intercede for all addicted to bad habits
Pray for all people addicted to alcohol, smoking and drugs and for peace and love in their families.

9. Intercede for Jesus Youth of Andhra Pradesh
Pray for all the Jesus Youth to grow deeper in faith and holiness and reach out to those seeking HIS Love.

10. Intercede for all those engaged in Idol Worship
Pray for all idol worshippers and for all the people who are involved in black magic.

11. Intercede for Widows and their Children
Pray that their void is filled with God’s presence all the days of their life

12. Intercede for all Missionaries
Pray for all the missionaries and also for the Jesus Youth leaders to lead a holy life.

13. Intercede for World Peace
Pray for peace in the world and for the leaders of all the nations especially leaders of our country and state.

14. Intercede for all Christian Institutions
Pray for all the Christian institutes to be a beacon of love and peace to this world.

15. Intercede for all Professionals
Pray for all professionals, especially for the government servants so that they do justice to their jobs.

16. Intercede for all Catholics
Pray for all the people to receive the sacraments faithfully and grow in the grace of God.

17. Intercede for the Retreats
Pray for the initial retreat in Telugu that is to happen in Vijayawada in the month of June and for the English retreat that is to happen in August.

18. Intercede for the Care Centers
Pray for God’s providence for the centers taking care of the poor, needy, aged, physically and mentally challenged so that they will be able to provide them with the daily necessities and specially the love of God.

19. Intercede for all the Hospitals
Pray for the doctors, nurses and hospital management to do their job sincerely as a service to the society.

20. Intercede for the Pentecost Day
Pray for the mighty anointing of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.

Reconstitution of the Jesus Youth National Team - India (JYNT India).

Venue : Chavara Bhavan (Near PG Block), Dharmaram Campus (Back Gate) , Bangalore
Date : 11th to 13th May 2007.

Zonal Coordinators, Zonal Service Team members and the key leaders of the region and zone participated in this program.

Marina, Vandana, Vijay Sunder, Jarald, Prakash, Prashant Khm, George, Nidheesh, Sachith, Abhram went from JY Hyderabad for this JYNT reconsitution.

Marina was again selected as JYNT member again.

On 7th May 2006 , Jesus Youth Central Prayer Group started at St. Francis women's college, Begumpet and from last one year Jesus Youth in Hydearabad use to gather every week at 3 Pm - 5 Pm Capitanio Hall in that college.

And it's been one year this JY Hyd CPG started in that college.

On 6th May 2007, Jesus Youth In Hyderabad celebrated as First Anniversary of JY CPG in a special way.

Program started at 10 Am with some games and later some action songs , praise & worship and sharings and so on and it went upto 5 Pm and almost everyone enjoed a lot the first anniversary of the JY Hyd CPG.

10th Apr 2007 morning Sherline & John started off from Hyderabad to join Chalo Nagaland Program.

They had undergone an orientation program for three days in Culcutta from 12th to 14th.

From there they went to Nagaland for the mission. After the mission the group came back in culcutta for final gathering.

On 28th all went back to their own places. This time 20 participants and 8 leaders including two nuns.

"Program-Chalo Chartala"
The teens starting at secunderbad railway station at 12:00noon on 12-05-2007 i.e., on saturday.

Children who went to Chartala:
From sanathnagar: Sanihitha,Sushma,Anne
From ramnagar: Micheal anthony, Varghese
From Vijayawada: Ananth, Abhignadas
coordinating team: V.Prashanth(arts),Shashi kumar(Vja) & Mary.

This Program went on till 21st May 2007 and 22nd May 2007, JY AP Teens Came back to their homes.

JY Teens Ministry Program in Ramnagar Parish Summer Bible Camp.

Fr.Arun has invited JY Teens Ministry to take sessions to Teens in their parish from 8th May to 12th May 2007.

"COMMUNION 2007" - A Priests & Religious gathering

Date & Time :
Wednesday, 9th May 2007, 9.30am to Friday, 11th May 2007, 2.00pm

Venue : Chavara Bhavan (Near PG Block), Dharmaram Campus (Back Gate) ,Bangalore

3 Priests went from Vijayawada diocese along with Fr. Bosco they were
Fr.Karunakar
Fr.Thomas kote
Fr.D.Praveen

And One Priest from Tirupathi Fr. Bhaskar and Sr. Mary from Hyderabad and Sr. Lilly from Warangal also joined in this Communion.

Let's go through the experiences of one othe Participant(Priest) this communion.

The programme COMMUNION was wonderful. It was held at Bangalore from 9 th May to 11 th May. Many priests and nuns attended the programme. I always cherish those nice moments. The Bangalore JY really deserve our thanks. They did good job to organize this. The classes were useful. The Class on "SACRAMENTUM CARITAS" led by Rev. Fr James Anaparambil really gave a good input. The class on "Youth Animation" led by Mr Edward Edezhath gave a clear idea for us as we step into the world of youth.

Our discussions were really useful. It was an eye opener for all of us to accompany the youth always. We should not leave them since they seem to go around without any aim.

The presence of His Grace Arch Bishop Abraham Viruthakulangara really gave us boost. We also discussed the challenges and possibilities of Jesus Youth. Mr Manoj Sunny, Mr Raiju gave us a clear idea of the constitution and various ministries of JY.

The music led by Mr Dhony was really wonderful. His radiance and enthusiasm did give us a ray of hope in todays world of Youth.

HOW HAPPY THEY ARE WHEN THEY DO SOMETHING FOR THE LORD. COMMUNION 2007 WILL REMAIN FOREVER IN OUR HAPPY MEMORIES.

FR ANSIL PETER,
ASSISTANT PARISH PRIEST
OUR LADY OF SORROWS CHURCH
PILATHARA, PAYYANNUR
KANNUR DT, KERALA - 9495103538

Vijay, Dilson, Abru and Ashwin reached Vijayawada for JY VJA Monthly gathering and also for mobilization of JY AP Telugu Initial Retreat " Yesu Rammanuchunnaru".

They Meet Fr. Bosco in his room & after a small prayer and blessing of the prayer cards they started the meeting for the "AP initial retreat" .... (Sunita from Vwada joined in)

The meeting lasted for 90 mins during which they spoke about intercessions, mobilization, dates, venue, accomodation, finance, resources, target youth

These are the outcomes from the meeting:

1. Dates are 12 July evening to 15 evening - This is to accomodate the students, since it is second saturday and they need to apply only 1 day leave ... Anything before is too early.

2. Venue & Accomodation - Will be at Gunadala ...

3. Target youth - 12 std onwards to degree .. Expecting 400 students + 100 working prof.

After this Fr. Bosco left us at 11:00 am to meet Bishop as they had some other urgent meeting and Bishop was leaving elsewhere in the afternoon.

After that they met up with the JY Vja elders Pailey and Martin chetta and briefed them for anther 90 mins of this program details. ..... They were very supportive and encouraging and gave their feedback.

Lunch followed at about 2:00 pm and then the Vwada big guns (Chakry, Vignan, Stephen .....) joined in.

The prayer meeting started at 2:00 pm and after the regular action songs, P&W and Fr. Bosco's talk, we spoke about the importance of having the "AP initial retreat at Vwada", recommittment day etc etc .... Martin and Pailey chetta also spoke to everyone and encouraged them to participate and organize this big event.

Towards the end we have identified and formed the foll. teams:

1. Intercession - Stephen Cordy
Team - Sunita, Deepthi, prashanti, Praveena

2. Mobilization - Chakry Cordy
Team - kiran gunala, prasanna, srikala, aruna, shyam, mahesh, ravi, praveen, jagadeesh

3. Fianance - Chaitanya Cordy
Team - Kiran, phani ....

4. Program - Vignan Cordy -
Team - Venu, ...........

At about 6:00 pm, they went to the JY prayer house and after giving thanks, they climed the mount. Reached back at 7:30 pm briefed Fr. Bosco of the meeting, had dinner at 8:30 pm and left for the station at 9:30 pm ..... Reached secbad this morn at 5:00 am.

Fr.Praveen, AP Regional Youth Director Invited Jesus youth to take one hour Prayer session in " VI AP Regional Catholic Youth Convention " .

Actually, these Regional Youth Conventions will took place once in every 3 years. This year Khammam Diocese hosted the event in "Christhu Jyothi College", Reddygudem, Thallada.

let's have a quick look what happened from 1st May to 4th May in Youth convention.

1st May 2007

Regional Convention started with Inagural Mass by Most.Rev.Abp. Marrampudi Joji DD, Archbishop of Hyderabad followed by Inagural session and opening greetings by Fr.Praveen.

After Lunch Rev.Fr.Sagili Prakash from Cudapph Diocese took session on " Spiritual life based on faith" after tea break we had evening prayers followed by Supper and after cultural programs where every diocese took part presenting a Bible theme dances and first day ended with the Night prayers.

2nd May 2007

Day started with morning prayers followed by Holy mass by Most.Rev.Paul Maipan DD, Bishop of Khammam after breakfast Mr.Abhraham, Director of APSSS took session on Catholic Leadership. After Lunch Fr. Rayappa SDB took Session on " Role of the youth in the Church " where they had Group discussion and Reporting Session. In the evening Taize Prayer was organized.

3rd May 2007

Day started with morning prayers followed by Holy mass by Most.Rev.Thumma Bala DD, Bishop of Warangal & Chirman for APBC Youth Commission. Every Diocese gathering and planned for activities which they should initiate in their Dioceses for next 3 years and every Diocese preented their reports. In the evening they falicitated the former Rexco members & Officials.

4th May 2007

Jesus Youth was invited to conduct the Praise & Worship & some time of Adoration. But due to some problems we couldn't reach to the venue on time and Fr.Praveen lead the youth in to Praise & Worship. After Breakfast Flag was hoisted by Most.Rev.Thumma Bala DD, Bishop of Warangal & Chirman for APBC Youth Commission followed by a peace walk upto Thallada after that Most.Rev.M.D.Prakasam DD, Bishop of Nellore celebrated the Holy mass. After holy mass Souvenir was released and also Memonto and certificates were disturbuted to the participants.

Almost 275 youth were from 11 Dioceses of Andhra Pradesh got chance to attend this 4 days Youth Convention.

Vignan, Chakry and Kiran was their in Khammam for the final day from moring 8 AM to 4 PM