MAKANA’S HELPFUL HINTS
Today’s tip: Use Ash Wednesday as an opportunity to reach out to “new” people. Pass out ministry and/or event brochures and invite them to the next parish gathering.
This statistic always comes up … the most well attended Mass of the year is Ash Wednesday. Regardless of why this is, the big take-away should be, THEY’RE COMING. Use this as an opportunity to reach people you can’t at any other Sunday liturgy or parish gathering.
Part of the vision that the U.S. bishops have for ministry with young adults is “accepting God’s invitation.”
God invites us to be transformed into holy people, to participate and find support in a community of believers, and to make this transformation happen by continually saying “yes” to Jesus’ invitation to “come, follow me” (Luke 18:22).
This “yes” means, in the words of Aida Salgado, a young adult from Texas, “to share with others the Christ that came down from the cross to make his dwelling inside each of us.” It is becoming people of great faith — “sons and daughters of the light.” Give these people you meet an opportunity to respond to God’s invitation by extending it to them. Be Christ’s welcoming hand.
Makana Aiona is the diocesan coordinator for Young Adult Ministry.
