Today, as I was meandering through the expansive exhibit hall at NCYC, I noticed a priest standing near a booth. As I walked by, he walked up to me and said what may be the strangest phrase anyone has ever told me: "Philip," he said, reading my name-tag, "have you ever bowled with a bishop?" As you may have guessed I was intrigued. "Ummm... no I actually haven't" I replied. I talked with him a little more, and he pointed to where I could bowl with a bishop and "kick some miter," if I was so inclined. As It turned out, a booth advocating the priesthood had set up a Nintendo Wii console, and was letting youth challenge a bishop in Wii Sports bowling. This, in my mind, illustrated just how amazing NCYC is. Things happen here that do not happen anywhere else. As I sat in mass with over 20000 people, I mulled over some of the other reasons. Nowhere else do people walk around with signs advertising free hugs for all. Nowhere else do you see two priests jumping and dancing during a rap concert. Nowhere else do you see 170 priests and seminarians saying the communion rite simoultaneously. None of these things you can see anywhere else, which is what makes NCYC like nothing else on earth.
Good Bless,
Philip Arbogast-Wilson
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