We hope you were all able to join us last month for our information sessions. We are beginning to receive registrations for pilgrims who have secured their seats on the plane to Perth. In order to guarantee your seat on the plane to Perth, we need you to turn those maybes into YES! We are asking you to register your group with Harvest and book your ACYF place by 30 June. Final payments and names are not due until 2 September. If your parish has does not want to bring a group, don't forget that your young people can individually register with the Melbourne Collective Group (MCG) and join in! We are also excited to announce that Catholic Education Melbourne is offering a subsidy to any student in a Catholic Secondary School with in the Archdiocese of Melbourne regardless of whether they are attending the Melbourne Pilgrimage with their school, another group or the MCG. Conditions apply, stay tuned to our website for more details next week!


With only 170 days until Festival, it gives you just enough time to raise some funds to help pay for your pilgrims! As you know, we have our Fundraising Guide HERE as well as some additional fun ideas HERE. The AOY also has a template to help you find pilgrim sponsors. Simply download the voucher sheet HERE, print it to A3 (two sheets), trim up the tickets and you are ready to sell. Ask you Parish Priest if you can talk at Mass for just two minutes and tell everyone why you want to attend the Festival and a little about it. After Mass, set yourself up at a table and see if parishioners will help you to get to Festival.


If you’re wondering just who you will see at Festival, you might just see this duo team up… Fr Rob Galea will be there along with musician and rapper from the US, Joe Melendrez… check out this clip from when they paired up HERE you may have even seen Joe at the Aussie gathering in Panama on stage. You might not know but you will be inspired by Grace Forrest – co-founder of the walk free foundation who campaign to end modern slavery. Grace, like the young people at the Festival could be a participant herself at only 26 years of age. She will share her story at the Festival… see a snippet HERE And last but not least is the effervescent and joyous Katie Prejean, checkout a clip HERE

So why are you still reading? Jump over to cam.org.au/acfy19 and register NOW!