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The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Sunday February 17, 2002 - 5 Oakville students to take part in Pilgrimage of the Cross By Howard Mozel O AKVILLE B E A V E R S T A F F Oabfllle youth will be part of an extraordinary event on Friday when the Pilgrimage of the Cross passes through town. The cross - 380 cm long, weighing 30 kilos and requiring eight people to carry it - is now journeying across Canada in preparation for World Youth Day this summer. Locally, the Halton Catholic District School Board will receive the cross the Thursday evening and it will remain in Halton until it is received late in the fol lowing day by the Slovak community in the Archdiocese of Toronto. In between, a number of events surround ing the icon have been planned in both Oakville and Burlington. The activities commence when rep resentatives from St. Paul the Apostle Parish Youth Group, comprised of stu dents from Burlington's Notre Dame Secondary School, will receive the cross at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Hamilton on Thursday evening on behalf of the Parishes of Halton. It will stay overnight at St. Paul the Apostle Parish. After several events in Burlington during Friday morn ing, the cross will be taken around noon by truck to Oakville's St. Ignatius of Loyola Secondary School, where students from Oakville's St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School and Milton's Bishop Reding Secondary School will also be on hand. At that point, a healing and reconciliation service will be held in front of the school, after which students will carry the cross in a procession along Nottinghill Gate to St. Matthew's Parish. At 1:30 p.m. a closing liturgy in St. Matthew's narthex will be held. The cross will remain at the church for a planned evening liturgy then will continue on to Toronto. In event of inclement weather, the cross will arrive at the schools by truck and the liturgies will take place in the front foyers or gym nasia of the schools. Board chaplains will select the students, who will carry the cross, as well as those students author ized to speak to the media as directed by the Bishop. About 80 students from each school - select ed for their leadership roles with in their schools - will participate. Students from the Parish Teams for World Youth Day will be among the first to take part. World Youth Day was intro duced during the Jubilee of Redemption in 1984. The cross created for that event has since become a symbol for World Youth Days and has traveled all over the globe. According to a report pre pared for Tuesday's Board meet ing, the cross challenges young people "to grow deeper in their faith and express it by example." "Young people have indicated that the cross has helped them to better understand the Redemption," said the report. "They have become more aware of the love of Christ from 'their' cross, which has strengthened their life of faith and given them the courage to make decisions of generosity to live as Christians." Members of every diocese in Canada will have the chance to be pilgrims during this event, which started when the cross began its journey in April 2000. Secondary schools are prepar ing for the cross' arrival by raising awareness through morning prayers, World Youth Day prayer cards and school liturgies. Posters made by students that outline local activities are up in the schools and World Youth Day candles have been purchased for the chaplains at all Halton second ary schools to be used in liturgical functions. Special commemorative ban ners and crosses to be given to students representing their respec tive schools will also be used. Life goes on. We're just your back-up. 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