In this episode Jo Boyce will be talking Maria Bracken and Celebrating our Youth Ministry Roots – it is how Mike Stanley and Jo met more than 20 years ago – and we still have strong links with many Diocesan Youth Services across the UK.

Maria Bracken, is the Youth Ministry Co-ordinator for Birmingham Catholic Youth Service; she shares some of the hilarious and inspiring highlights of her own faith journey; and her passion for working with young people.

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In this episode Jo Boyce and Maria share their story about Catholic Youth work:

• Maria and Jo recall their first meeting at a Coventry Deanery Youth Mass in the early 90’s…
• The vision behind the Coventry Deanery Youth Masses
• About being the longest serving Diocesan Youth Worker in the UK
• Joining the Maltfriscans, experiencing heartbreak and learning to trust God
• The making of the Born for This cross and the ongoing Born for This legacy
• Getting young people involved in the Church and and the Liturgy

Songs featured

In this episode we play several songs: You Are My Hands – the song that Jo sang in the Car for Fr Mike White when she had her VERY informal interview for Soli House back in the Summer of 1992.

• Deep in My Heart
• May Your Love 
• I Want to Sing about Your Love By Fr Mark Crisp
• My Lord is So Good To Me – The Maltfriscans

Links and Resources

• Rejoice n Sing 4 CD Audio Collection (You Are My Hands iTunes mp3)
• Before the Lord CD (Deep in My Heart iTunes mp3)
• In the Company of Angels CD (May Your Love iTunes mp3)
• My Lord is So Good To Me – The Maltfriscans
• Andrew Robinson’s Book: Tears At Night Joy at Dawn – Journal of a Dying Seminaria
• I Want to Sing about Your Love By Fr Mark Crisp

Announcements

Jo Boyce announces she will be taking an 8 week sabbatical from 11 April to 6 June 2014.  The Archdiocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes is on 24 – 31 May 2014.  Our next episode topic will be The Art of the Bidding Prayer.