Every group needs a set of rules or guidelines in order to function as a group. Even a secular travel company will have some guidelines about how people should behaviour as a travel group. Yet when you are on a pilgrimage there is a higher standard for the group. Instead of a set of basic minimum behaviours the group is aiming for something higher. The pilgrim is modelling their behaviour on Christ.
So when you travel to WYD, go above and beyond the minimum standard set in the Code of Conduct for your group. Set you sights on Jesus. This scripture from St Paul is a great passage to meditate on every time you struggle with the pilgrimage experience and don't behaviour how you want to.
1 Corinthians 10:23-33
The Believer’s Freedom
23 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive. 24 No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
25 Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, 26 for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”
27 If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience. 28 But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, both for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience. 29 I am referring to the other person’s conscience, not yours. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience? 30 If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of something I thank God for?
31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 32 Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God
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