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REGISTRATION

Register for this year's Winter Youth Retreat by contacting:

Department of Christian Education
Dn. Jovan Anicic
edu@easterndiocese.org
312-659-4723

or by contacting your PARISH PRIEST

**Registration is recommended so that we can plan appropriately**

SCHEDULE

Sunday, December 24

• 5pm - 7pm - Camp Check-in
• 7pm - Meet and Greet
• 8pm - Theme party
• 10pm - Compline

Monday, December 25

• 8am - Morning Prayer
• 8:30am - 9:15am - Breakfast
• 9:30am - 10:15am - Opening Talk
  • Dn Jovan Anicic: "To be or not to be: Orthodoxy as a Way of Life"
• 10:30am - 12:45pm - Breakout Sessions (1 hour each with 15 minute breaks between)
  • Milan and Mira Damljanovic - "Nativity through Serbian Musical Traditions"
  • Dn Jovan Anicic - "Serbian Traditional Singing Heritage in Praxis"
• 1pm - Lunch
• 2:30pm - 4:30pm Breakout Sessions 2 (45 minute each with 15 min break between)
  • Dragana Crnjak - Workshop 1 - Beauty in Iconography
• 5pm - Vespers
• 5:30pm - Dinner
• 8pm - Group Movie Night - "60 Minutes - Mount Athos" and discussion
  • "Guatemala Orthodox Orphanage" and discussion
• 10:30pm - Bedtime

Tuesday, December 26

• 8am - Morning Prayer
• 8:30am - 9:15am - Breakfast
• 9:30am - 10:15am - Opening Talk
  • Fr Aleksa Pavichevich
• 10:30am - 12:45am - Breakout Sessions (1 hour each with 15 minute breaks between)
  
  • Dn Jovan Anicic - "Serbian Spiritual Songs"
  • Bakery Class - "Baking Chesnica"
• 1pm - Lunch
• 2:30pm - 4:30pm Breakout Sessions 2 (45 minute each with 15 min break between)
  • Dn Jovan Anicic - "Divine Liturgy - Tebe Pojem/Dostojno/Tjelo Hristovo"
  • Bakery Class - "Baking Chesnica"
• 5pm - Vespers
• 5:30pm - Dinner
• 7pm - Outing
• 10:30pm - Bedtime

Wednesday, December 27th

• 9:30am - Teaching Divine Liturgy (Proskomede will be done with explanations in the middle of the church and the gifts picked up and carried into the altar during the Great Entrance)
• 11:30am - Brunch and Departures

Workshop Volunteers/Presentors

• Fr Dragan Goronjic
• Fr Aleksa Pavichevich
• Dn Jovan Anicic
• Milan Damljanovic
• Mira Damljanovic
• Dragana Crnjak
• Milos Markovic