The efforts you make to explain the points outlined above, before your group leaves home, will be well rewarded. Then, you make your group's contribution to cover the cost of your stay - either each person does this individually, or else you, as the group leader, pay for everyone. Most weeks, we arrange a special programme for 15 and 16 year olds. If you bring 15-16 year olds, the important thing for the welcome team is that you, as group leader, realise your responsibility towards them and come prepared to spend your time with them, in order to make their stay a worthwhile experience. The church and prayer together Songbooks and printed Bible readings are given out at the entrance to the church.
Many people remark on how they value the period of silence at the heart of each community prayer.
Outside the times of prayer together, the church is open, day and night, for personal prayer and is much used. Catholic Mass is celebrated each day in different places. The Blessed Sacrament is reserved next to the icon of the Virgin Mary. It is from there that the Catholic Communion is distributed every morning. For those from the Churches of the Reformation, the Lord's Supper is celebrated every day.