Hundreds of young people from across the Diocese of Broken Bay and beyond have shared in an encounter with Jesus at Ignite Conference over the weekend.
Across four days, kids, teenagers, young adults, and families attended rallies, workshops and talks, encountering God through praise and worship, Mass, Eucharistic Adoration and confession.
Ignite Conference is known for its night rallies, an opportunities to engage in praise and worship in a contemporary form, not normally found in most Catholic churches.
The conference was also an opportunity for young Catholics to meet each other and build new bridges with people from a wide range of communities and backgrounds.
Bishop Anthony Randazzo led the hundreds of attendees in celebrating Mass and mingled with the young people attending the conference.
There were also opportunities for the young people to discern their vocation or respond to a call to leadership within the Church. The Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia, Franciscans, Sisters of the Immaculata, and Missionaries of God’s Love had a strong presence at the conference, while courses such as Arete and Alpha also had stalls at the conference.
Catholic Schools Broken Bay and Vocations Broken Bay also exhibited as part of the conference.
Groups from Victoria and regional New South Wales traveled to take part in the conference.
Fr Sam French celebrated the closing Mass, reminding the attendees that the encounter they had experienced with Jesus at the conference should not just be left there, but lived out in their everyday lives when they returned to normal life.