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By Voice staff
Robby Rusca, a teen leader at St. Catherine of Siena
Parish Youth Group in Martinez for three years who is now a junior at
the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, is among 60 students
who will act as facilitators during ND Vision, a Catholic camp for high
school students. He hopes that teens from the Oakland Diocese will join
him this summer for the retreat.
ND Vision is designed for students entering grades nine through twelve
in Sept. 2008 or graduating in the spring of 2008. Rusca said the five-day
sessions on the Notre Dame campus are an opportunity for young people
to become more aware of their gifts “and how these gifts might be
used to please God.”
There will be large group experiences, small group interactions, speakers,
liturgies and music.
Rusca, a math and theology major at Notre Dame, has been preparing throughout
the year for his facilitator role through retreats, classes and training
workshops.
ND Vision sessions are scheduled for June 16-20, June 23-27, July 7-11,
and July 14-19. Participants who apply before March 21 will get a tuition
price break of $250 per person for groups of five or more, or $275 without
a group. After March 21, the price is $300 per person at the group rate
and $325 for the individual rate. Scholarships are available.
Application forms are in online at: vision.nd.edu. Paper applications
can be sent to ND Vision, 103 Hesburgh Library, Notre Dame, IN 46556.
Rusca can be contacted at (925) 586-4207, or at angelo86@comcast.net.
Since discovering ND Vision as a freshman, Rusca said he has found that
“two important aspects of personal discernment are self-love and
self-understanding. God is evident not only in prayer, community, and
sacraments at ND Vision, but also in how God calls each individual to
be perfected by love.”
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