NCYC

During the National Catholic Youth Conference, visitors were invited to pray with first-degree relics in a newly added relic chapel.

This year, the three-day event, geared toward teenagers of high school age and their chaperones, will be held Nov. 14-16 at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center in Long Beach, California.

During NCYC’s new “Deep Dive” series of sessions, presenters offered practical tips about how young people — and anyone– can live their faith more intentionally through prayer and Scripture and by saying, “How can I help?”

Father Leo Patalinghug provided listeners with a different kind of recipe: “Five Steps to Become a Teenage Saint” at the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis.

“It fills me with hope, because these are young people who have personal encounters with Christ. That’s what it’s all about — a personal encounter with Christ,” said Father Jeremy Theis, pastor of the parishes in Upsala, Elmdale and St. Francis.

Teenagers from the Diocese of Springfield, Mass., put together meals Nov. 23, 2019, during the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis.

The 20,000 youth attending NCYC knelt in silence as a eucharistic procession twined through the Indiana Convention Center and again while watching a videotaped welcome from Pope Francis.

For three days, the 20,000 teenagers attending the National Catholic Youth Conference form a joyful, energetic and unifying representation of how much their Catholic faith means to them.