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Salvatorins from around Australia have gathered at their annual retreat in St John of God Retreat Centre in Shearwater. The retreat started on Monday 14th June and will conclude on Friday 18th June 2010.

The Retreat Master Fr Andrew Drogos, also a Salvatorian, has traveled all the way from Nitra in Slovakia where he has been since 2003. Nitra is connected with the beginnings of Christianity in Eastern Europe which goes back to the 9th Century.

We are coming close to the World Youth Day in Madrid in 2011. As Salvatorians we organise and coordinate special pilgrimage to join other young Catholic to celebrate our faith. Our pilgrimage includes visits to Rome, Assisi, Paris, Lourdes, Madrid, Wadowice and Krakow. To find out more about our pilgrimage please ask your parish priest or youth coordinator in any of our Salvatorian parishes.

WYD Pilgrimage poster available for download.

The Winter School is a training retreat/camp focusing on youth ministry. It will have a great balance of formation, faith and fun. In 2010, they will be focusing on the document "Annointed & Sent" put together by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.  The key elements covered in 2010 are: Evangelisation, Catechesis, Music, Prayer & Worship, Community life and Pastoral Care.

To find out more about Winter School in Pittwater parish please go to their website: Pittwater Parish

Encouraged by last year's successful Christmas party for 500 needy children, Fr. Artur Chrzanowski, SDS, and a small team of advisors, conducted an expanded “Puso sa Puso” (Tagalog for “heart to heart”) all-day Christmas program for 5,000 needy children.

Dear Friends
There are only 47 days to the event and everybody involved in the preparation of it is very busy trying to tie up necessary things. I am taking this opportunity to update you about what happened in the last few weeks so you can be inform about our progress.