Even if we only make ourselves heard to the members of the Church who are on DYC, we have touched these people and they have undoubtedly also touched us. DYC's efforts testify to the power of youth councils. By gathering, praying, celebrating, and witnessing, the youth on World Youth Day speak to the Church in a very powerful way. By practicing and living our faith, we as youth can make ourselves heard much, much moreso than if we just talk and write and preach. Our actions, as well as the example we set by these actions, can effectively communicate what we ourselves may not even be able to find words to say.
Service encompasses many of the countless ways for youth to be heard through action.
We want to help. We should ask ourselves, however,if we are serving others because we love God and we see God in them, and because in serving them we actually serve God, or if we are simply acting based on altruistic motives. While the latter is OK, it does not serve God in the same way and it doesn't give an authentic example to follow, and we are not heard as we should be. We must act for the rightreasons. Witnessing enthusiastically through these is truly one of the best ways to be heard in the Church.