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This 10 days of prayer creates a new momentum,
new synergy, new relationship amongst these people.
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Thy Kingdom Come, it's, let's say 10 days
prayer group sessions in a village.
We translated the materials and we sent them throughout the diocese,
then for the 8 villages we organised the 10 days of prayer.
The aim was for each village, they run the prayer sessions for 10 days.
So it's mainly outdoors, but organised by the family, hosted by the family.
They invited all their friends to come
and some young people came.
I remember exactly this family accepted to host us
and the mother said "Ok, you know these two boys, they were Confirmed in our church
but .. um ...
but they're a bit lazy to come to church"
but that prayer, which is a very simple prayer
and also held in their house,
they were touched by that way of coming to their house
and they started to come back to church again.
Which is very unusual for the younger generation.
Another case being, once again also,
we were hosted in a couple's house.
As usual mother goes to church,
but not the father.
But because they hosted that prayer time
and the father after the prayer,
he asked questions "but what does prayer mean?
And why do you come here?"
It helped him to at least understand at the beginning:
"Ok, so I can talk to God - with my family.
As simple as like that."
One of the transformational impacts of prayer life
is that we could put in place our prayer group
and we are now using the same group for intentional discipleship.
This 10 days of prayer creates a new momentum,
new synergy, new relationship amongst these people.
Indeed the Holy Spirit is now becoming real for them
and we thank God because it's time for us to go out of the church
and to meet people where they are,
pray with them and since then
this prayer group has been continuing
and we use this prayer group for many things in the parish now.