Pope asks young Catholics to use technology to share their faith

Each year, the Pope offers reflections on the media on World Communications Day. This year, his message was aimed at teens and young adults. He encouraged teens to use blogs, facebook accounts, to spread the Gospel. Here's the story:

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0900327.htm

As Southern Maryland Youth Day approaches, you will be able to use stmaryscatholicyouth.com to invite others to Youth Day - more information will be coming soon!

SOMD Youth Day - Rock the Faith!

The title and logo for Southern Maryland Youth Day have been chosen - Rock the Faith! Psalm 62:3 says, "God alone is my rock and salvation, my secure height; I shall never fall." We can focus our lives on popularity, on school, on our friends, on our possessions, and on so many other things, but only faith in God gives our lives real meaning. Things in our life may come and go, but our Catholic faith is always the same.

The deadline for registration has been set to February 20th. You can register online at http://www.stmaryscatholicyouth.com/ or by snail mail.

Theme Chosen for SOMD Youth Day

At our first planning meeting for Southern Maryland Youth Day 2009, we threw around ideas for possible themes - the Bible, St. Paul (this is his year, after all), and others. Someone mentioned that 2009 is the 375th anniversary of the first recorded Catholic Mass in the English colonies, and we quickly decided to focus on what we could learn from the first settlers here in Maryland.

Sound boring? Maybe you don't know enough about what those early Marylanders had been through: The Catholics on-board were fleeing harsh treatment by the English government, seeking a place where they could live out their faith more freely. Others on board were adventurers looking for life in a new world and a chance at fortune and fame. In danger of starvation, pirate attacks, sickness at sea, and violent storms, they crossed the ocean to settle in a new colony, and the rest, as they say, is history.