The Kuching Archdiocesan Chinese Apostolate Council every year invites the Mandarin-speaking Legion of Mary to organise an annual Youth Camp to nurture and support both the Catholic and non-Catholic youths in the diocese of Kuching. This year the 4-days Chinese Youth Camp (June 1st to June 4th) was held at the Catholic Centre, Sri Aman. The organising committee had to rent 3 full-loads of buses to transport about 65 youths from different parts of Kuching to Sri Aman, and the camp fees of RM25 collected from each youth were all spent on transport. The theme of the Youth Camp 2006 was “Family and I” and there were 4 talks delivered by Friar Moses Yap, a Franciscan priest appointed to St Ann's Parish, Kota Padawan, who was invited to work in the Archdiocese of Kuching last year.
Fr Moses explained the different ways of affirming oneself in our family and community. For example, he encouraged us to choose our friends wisely and because friends could either support and build us up or depreciate and destroy our sense of value and dignity. Fr Moses emphasised that when we have truly killed the root of our sinful self, that is, our selfishness, the Spirit of our Risen Lord would live in us and our physical bodies truly transformed and become the Temple of the Holy Spirit, and we would bear the fruit of humility, gentleness, kindness, chaste, endurance, patience, obedient, forgiveness, respect and peace.
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