TEEN AND CHAPERONE SCHEDULE OF
EVENTS FOR THE MARCH FOR LIFE
EXTENDED TEEN PILGRIMAGE
Wednesday-Thursday, January
21-22, 2009
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21
8:00 AM: Buses
leave Fairfield County (location TBD)
2:00 PM: Buses
arrive at hotel
3:00 PM: Opening
Prayer/Welcome Activities
5:00 PM: Dinner
7:00 PM: Pre-Rally
activities (TBD)
THURSDAY,
JANUARY 22
YOUTH MASS AND RALLY FOR LIFE AT THE VERIZON CENTER
7:00
AM: Teen Buses arrive at
Verizon Center.
All youth and chaperones please proceed directly to Section
108 as soon as the doors open.
7:30 AM: Rally
featuring popular Catholic recording artists: Steve Angrisano,
Matt Maher, Jessica Marie Tous and the Who Do You Say I Am band.
8:00 AM: Reconciliation
available.
9:30 AM: Rosary
for Life.
10:00 AM:
Mass celebrated by Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl with
bishops and priests from around the nation.
11:30 AM:
Depart Verizon Center and walk to the Museum of Natural History.
DIOCESE OF BRIDGEPORT
PILGRIMS' PRAYER SERVICE
12:30
PM: All Diocese of Bridgeport
groups meet at the steps in front of the Museum of Natural History.
12:30
PM: Lunch on the steps of
the Museum of Natural History.
12:45
PM: Welcome: Msgr. Ernest
Esposito, Respect Life Director.
12:50
PM: Enriching the Parish:
Fr. Greg Markey, Pastor, St. Mary’s Parish in Norwalk
1:00
PM: Teen Witness, TBD
1:05
PM: 2009 March for Life Address:
Bishop William Lori
1:15
PM: Rosary: Led by the Gospel
of Life
DIOCESE OF BRIDGEPORT WALKS AND PRAYS AS ONE GROUP
JOINING
THE MARCH FOR LIFE
1:30
PM: March to the Supreme Court
and Capitol.
3:30
PM: Buses leave from Stanton
Park and will stop for dinner on the way home.
11:00
PM: Approximate arrival.
Instructions for Chaperones and Teen Participants
- The cost of transportation for the Extended Teen Pilgrimage
is $100. This includes trnasportation, hotel, most meals,
and all pilgrimage activities.
- Every participant, including adults,
must have a signed liability form (download
the PDF above).
Please send all forms and money to Mimi Giannino at the
Catholic Center, 238 Jewett Avenue, Bridgeport CT 06606.
- Please bring money for lunch on January 21st and snacks
to share.
- All chaperones
must be VIRTUS trained and background checked.
- Chaperones
must remain with youth at all times.
- The Verizon Center fills up very quickly on the 22nd
and seats are limited on a first come, first serve basis. In
an effort to guarantee seats for all participants from
the Diocese of Bridgeport and in order to stay together
at the rally and throughout the course of the day, kindly
follow these instructions:
- When
the buses arrive at the Verizon Center, please exit
the buses and proceed directly through the doors at
the Verizon Center.
- If the doors are not open to the
Verizon Center yet, kindly wait in line to enter.
Do not depart the Verizon Center for any reason once
the buses have arrived.
- When the doors open, proceed
directly to section
108 after going through security. Please
claim your seat before using the restroom because
seats will be very hard to save.
- Small backpacks,
signs, and banners are allowed inside, but poles and
larger signs must be stored in a lobby area.
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