Research shows that the involvement of youth and young adults in faith communities correlates directly with their connections to adults in faith communities.* This makes it the responsibility of every baptized Catholic to weave intergenerational webs of community relationships in their parishes.Did you know that our youth are most likely to drift away from their faith if adults in their communities do not know them by name?
How many young people in your parish do you know by name? How many young people know your name?
I have called you by name, you are mine. (NRSV Is 43:1)
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*Sticky Faith research from Fuller Seminary's Youth Institute.The first research study to point this
out was in Merton Strommen's Five Cries of Youth
from 1974 when he described the Cry of the Joyous - young people of
vibrant faith who talked about being known by name by at least 5 adults
in their church.
