Another meeting to plan Days in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle paused to reflect on words of Aboriginal spirituality and a liturgy with smoke.
Many of the visitors will be welcomed to Newcastle and the Hunter Valley to spend several eventful days just prior to the gathering in Sydney.
Those who plan to take part in World Youth Day painted a cross to take with them and chose to paint in the style of Aboriginal dot painting.
This group of people at the meeting must surely see how capable they are of making arrangments and the potential they have for decision making and responsibility, as laity, now and into the future.