Throughout this week, we will be “airing” segments of our Youth Contact meetings, conducted over the previous two weekends. We be updating this posting as the ArchBalt resources page goes live (there was IT maintenance on the site over the weekend) and a Moodle training page (dependant upon the ArchBalt page) also goes live/  The Moodle page will allow you to virtually participate in the training as well!

Our theme for the training was Salt and Light. How do we help young people to preserve the faith?  How do we fully reflect the prism of Christ’s light? 

In our opening prayer, we read of Jesus’ analogy of Salt and Light from Matthew 5:13-16. Archbishop O’Brien graciously agreed to tape a short reflection on the readings.

Quote to note:

“You are the salt of the earth.  You are the light of the world.” Not, you should be. He’s given them that gift already. Pope John Paul II used to say, “Become who you are.” You are the light of the world.” The more you express yourself in the faith, the more you will give flavor and light to those around you.

The day broke into two sections -  Salt and Light.  Clever, huh?

Here, Georgina Vaca and I introduce our call for how youth ministers need to help preserve the faith

Quote to note:

Youth ministry is often about moments. Moments – whether it is a conference, whether it is confirmation, a service project, or sacraments.

Youth Ministry, our work with young people, our service in the name of Jesus Christ must, must be something more than a collection of moments.