Here is a list of the prepatory activity themes that you can find on the Rendez-vous 2011 website, under the Resources tab:

• Gathering Community, Discovering Multiculturalism
• Go Big and Go Home!
• Caring for Ourselves, Caring for Our Church, Caring for Creation
• Pondering Pilgrimages

Start your journey toward Rendez-vous 2011 today! 

http://www.rendez-vous2011.org/resources

We have been talking a lot recently about the bible - context, language, the time it was written, the history of what was going on at the time. And I think in most of the threads most posters agree  that to understand the bible, this is a helpful tool. My question arises out of this assumption.