What is AYD?
ARCHDIOCESAN YOUTH DAY is the coming together of young people from the 28 Parishes of the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan for reception, recollection & renewal, recreation and re-commissioning. Premised on the Word of God, this encounter enables the young people gather in formations programs and plans their future spiritual lives. At the same time, the gathering provides them the opportunity to interact, create friendship, share their own culture and heritage, discuss issues that concern them and the rest of society; and identify solutions that could effects changes. AYD is a four-day experience of being Church-praying, celebrating, caring, serving, and witnessing.
HOW DID AYD BEGING?
In 1995, scores of young hopefuls from the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan trooped to Manila and partook in the international gathering and journey of faith of young pilgrims, the 10th World Youth Day. After Experiencing the joy and meaning of the event, the Archdiocesan youths present in that occasion saw the need to extend home to ardor of the celebration, along with the desire to foster the gathering’s message “ As the Father has sent me, so am I sending you” [John 20.21]
This noble desire was encouraged by Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz which then gave cause for founding the annual celebration of meaningful spiritual gathering for the youths of the Arcdiocese, the ARCHDIOCESAN YOUTH DAY (AYD)
In 1996, the Archdiocesan Youth Apostolate Committe (AYAC), composed of priest and youth leaders who where participants to the 1995 WYD, organized the celebration of the first AYD in the province’s capital town, Lingayen. It gathered young people from the parishes of the Archdiocese, making them experience the vitality of Christ’s Church to be awakened and renewed to their commitment to evangelization and to communicate in youthful unity a message of hope, faith and love as envisioned during the World Youth Day ’95 in Manila.
The journey of the Archdiocese Youth Days continues.....
WHERE WAS AYD PREVIOUS HELD?
May 10-12, Epiphany of Our Lord Parish (Lingayen)
“You shall be My Witnesses” (Lk. 24:28)
April 11-13, St. Dominic Parish (San Carlos City)
“Teach them everything I have commanded you” (Mt. 28:20)
April 24-26, 1998, St. Hyacinth Parish (San Jacinto)
“The Holy Spirit will come Upon You” (Lk. 1:35)
May 10-13, 1999, Holy Family Parish (Sta. Barbara)
“I will Rise Up and Go back to my Father” (Lk. 15:18)
May 2-5, 2000, St. Vincent Ferrer Parish (Bayambang)
“ The word became Flesh and dwelt Among Us” (Jn. 1:14)
April 24-27, 2001, St. John the Evangelist Parish (Dagupan City)
“I have come not to be Served but to Serve” (Mt. 10:45)
April 23-26,2002, Our Lady of the Rosary Parish (Manaoag)
“Come follow Me” (Mt. 4:19)
April 23-26, 2003, Our Lady Purification Parish (Binmaley)
“You are the Salt of the Earth” (Mt. 5:13)
April 21-24, 2004, Mary Help of Christians Parish (Basista)
“Behold Your Mother” (Jn. 19:27)
April 20-23, 2005, Parish of St. Fabian, Pope and Martyr (San Fabian)
“We wish to See Jesus” (Jn. 12:21)
April 17-20,2006 St. Pius V Parish (Urbiztondo)
“We have come to Worship Him” (Mt. 2:2)
April 17-20, 2007, Sts. Peter and Paul Parish (Calasiao)
“Thy Word is a Lamp unto my Feet and a Light unto my Path” (Ps. 19:105)
April 22-25, 2008, St. Ildephonse Parish (Malasiqui)
“Just as I Have Loved You, You also Should Love One Another” (Jn. 13:34
April 21-24, 2009, Holy Cross Parish (Laoac)
“You will Receive Power and the Holy Spirit has Come upon You and You will be My Witnesses” (Acts 1:8)
April 26-29, 2010, Annunciation of the Lord Parish (Bonuan Gueset, Dagupan City) “We have set Our Hope on the Living God” (I Tim 4:10)
May 3-6, 2011, St. Rose of Lima Parish (Domalandan, Lingayen, Pangasinan)
“Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” (Mk. 10:17)
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