Celebrating Mass for Scouts
On March 25 I was invited to celebrate the Sunday Vigil Mass for Scouts (both boys and girls) taking a National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) program at Durland Scout Reservation in Putnam Valley, N.Y. I'm always ready to accept such invitations. This was the 1st one in a good many years--since before I moved to Illinois and Maryland, and then the pandemic came along not long after I returned to New Rochelle.
This program had 48 participants in addition to more than a dozen adult and youth leaders directing the course. About 20 came to Mass and were readily participative (which always pleases a celebrant) in some homiletic dialog about the gospel of Jesus raising Lazarus.
I was told that the Scouts came from about 30 different troops, and some were from New Jersey and Connecticut besides the lads and lasses from our own Greater Hudson Valley Conference.
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Thank you so much Father Mike for ensuring that our youth are able to attend mass while being at our course which lasts until 6pm Sunday. We are grateful for your service to youth!
Donna Ragusa
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