What  will happen at
CCYC 2018 - To the Heights!

The Cleveland Catholic Youth Conference will be held on Saturday, December 15th at John Carroll University. The day will consist of worship, celebration of the sacraments of Adoration, Confession and Mass as a community. Throughout the day there will be many opportunities to explore Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati's famous quote, "Verso l'alto!" From our awesome keynote speaker to our dynamic breakout sessions, we are sure you won't want to miss this event!

​SCHEDULE FOR THE DAY...
8 am    Arrival & Registration
8:30 am    Praise & Worship
9 am    Welcome & Opening Prayer (Kulas)
9:15 am     Keynote #1 Joel Stepanek
10:20 am    Breakout Session 1
11:30 am    Lunch with Parish, Reconciliation & Group Prayer, Physical Activity
1:30 pm    Praise and Worship, Keynote #2 by Joel  Stepanek & Eucharistic Adoration
2:30 pm     Breakout Session 2
3:30 pm    Stage Game
3:45 pm    Keynote #3 Bishop Perez
4:45 pm    Teen Witness
5:00 pm     Dinner & Mystagogy with parish groups
6:15 pm     Mass
7:30 pm     Closing Remarks and departure

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​Keynote Speaker
Joel Stepanek
Joel has been actively and passionately involved in ministry for over ten years. What began as a simple internship in a parish youth ministry office evolved into an incredible adventure that led him on numerous middle school lock-ins, high school retreats, and conferences across the United States and the world. Joel is the Director of Resource Development for Life Teen International where he creates engaging youth ministry resources for middle, high school, and college students as well as parents. To find out more about Joel, check out joelstepanek.com

CCYC 2018 Theme:
To the Heights

CCYC 2018 will focus on the incredible message and witness of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. Mountain climbing was one of his favorite sports. Outings in the mountains, which he organized with his friends, also served as opportunities for his apostolic work. He never lost the chance to lead his friends to Mass, to the reading of Scripture, and to praying the Rosary. It is very common to see the expression "Verso l'alto" on information about Blessed Pier Giorgio. The expression took on a life of its own in the years following his death. Very often, the words can be found on the bottom of a very well-known photo of Pier Giorgio climbing a mountain and gazing upward. Literally, the translation is "toward the top."
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Pier Giorgio actually wrote these words himself on the back of the photo which was taken by a fellow climber on June 7, 1925. Because of Pier Giorgio's sudden death one month later, it turned out to be his last climb.  Although it was never his personal motto, "Verso l'alto" became representative of Pier Giorgio's earthly life -- a constant striving to reach the summit of eternal life. (https://frassatiusa.org/frassati-biography)
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​Live Worship Band Leader​
will be announced soon!

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