Anaheim, Calif.

The end of a conference like LA Congress tends to be bittersweet.

After three days (four if you include Youth Day) of talks, liturgies, meeting new people, buying trinkets and immense crowds, people are ready to go home and return to their daily routines. Yet there is also a tinge of sadness that lingers in the air as people get into their cars or venture to the airport: Congress attendees are sad to see an event that unites people come to an end.

People wonder: What now? How do we implement what we have learned? How do we heal our church?

Our church, more often than it should, feels cold and dark.

The archdiocese of Los Angeles is facing trying times. Many wonder, what now? 

Where is the light in a church that seems to have lost its way, a church that sometimes forgets its message of love and justice?

LA Congress attendees have been invited to “Enter the Mystery” of God at the Anaheim Convention Center over the course of this weekend.