Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Diocese of Sacramento Offers Scholarship To Encourage Multicultural Youth Liturgies

The Youth & Young Adult Ministry Office is excited to offer scholarships to Mercy Center's Multicultural Liturgical Arts Intensive, June 9-12 in Auburn to youth ministry coordinators and/or liturgy coordinators to encourage youth masses, retreats and prayer experiences more inclusive of the many cultures that our youth belong to.

Four 50% scholarships of $175 are offered to qualified applicants on a first come, first serve basis. Scholarship recipients should: 1. Be looking for new ways to make youth liturgy more inclusive and more reflective of the diversity of their youth population, 2. Have a pastor that is open to their efforts, 3. Currently have a regular youth mass functioning in the parish, and 4. Be a youth ministry coordinator or liturgy coordinator who has primary responsibility for liturgy planning for the youth mass in their parish. Only one scholarship per parish.

Interested parties should email Kevin with name, contact info, parish and a brief description of their youth liturgy, their role in coordination/planning of the liturgies and a brief statement of why they want to attend the workshop. Recipients will be asked to submit a one-page report to the diocese in December 2009 explaining how the workshop has enhanced their youth liturgy.

For more information contact Kevin Staszkow at 916-733-0152, kstaszkow@diocese-sacramento.org, visit the youth & young adult ministry website, or Mercy Center's website here: Mercy Center's Multicultural Liturgical Arts Intensive

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