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Young and Catholic: The Face of Tomorrow's Church

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For many Catholics these last few years have been painful. I can't even remember the amount of nasty jokes and insults I've seen and heard in this year alone. There's a priest shortage, the news out of a number of parishes around the country is either disgusting or depressing and sometimes it all seems too much.

Cheer up! The news isn't all bad.

The kids are alright. That's the message of this book. It's a peep at todays young Catholics and guess what? It shows some remarkable, determined and hopeful people. These young adults are the future and reading about them was a little ray of sunshine. Buy this book for your gloom and doom friends and get a copy for yourself.

Veteran Catholic journalist Tim Drake presents Young and Catholic: The Face of Tomorrow's Church, is a positive-minded and heartwarming glimpse into the lives of up-and-coming young Catholic people striving to spread good works, prayer, and the message of their faith. From web-savvy Catholics seeking to evangelize secular culture through the Internet, to the celebration of World Youth Day when thousands of young people gather and pray to show their love for the Pope and Jesus Christ, to teen groups dedicating themselves to Christian service, chastity, and promoting the Church's teachings, Young and Catholic observes the next generation of the passionately faithful taking root and flowering. A brightly optimistic look at the future of a global faith.

Author Tim Drake gives readers reason for great optimism with his latest, Young and Catholic: The Face of Tomorrow's Church (Sophia Institute Press, September 2004, paperback). Serving as writer for countless Catholic periodicals has given this convert to the faith an excellent vantage point from which to seek out instances of devotion in today's younger generation. This wonderful book provides an up close look at how younger Catholics are responding the Holy Father, John Paul II's call to be "the Hope of the Church".

Drake shares numerous instances of young men and women leading lives of profound service and dedication to the Church. An increase in vocations, new and creative means of evangelization, and use of the Internet to deepen and spread the faith are just a few of the examples Drake cites.

Readers will be encouraged by these first person accounts and inspired by the role models they meet in the pages of the book. Perhaps most importantly, they will likely be prompted by Drake's positive, infectious enthusiasm and by promptings of the Holy Spirit to join these young, future leaders in embracing and truly living the teachings of Jesus Christ.

...in the future of the Church. Having interviewed over 300 young orthodox Catholics, Tim Drake provides compelling evidence that the Holy Spirit is still guiding the Church, and that we are now less than one generation away from a Catholic revival. This makes an ideal book for every Catholic -- whether lay, religious or clergy -- interested in the future of the Church.

...then this is the book you need to pick up. As others have noted, in researching this book Tim interviewed over three-hundred young orthodox Catholics. All of these young people bring a renewed vibrancy to their Catholic milieu. There are many great stories of young vocations, new religious communities, evangelizing by means of the internet and new technology, and basically stories of young people congregating to pray and discuss their Catholic faith. Definitely a book that every bishop, pastor, diocesan and parish youth director, and vocations' director should read.

I was able to get into this book really fast. It is very fast moving and got me hooked in the first few pages. There were several things the author said that I thought were great and agree with. Then there were some I hope come true that were revealed at the end of this book. We should keep that a secret so maybe it will come true.
I was impressed that there is so much going on with the young Catholic adults in this country and the world. It's great. I'm very encouraged by it. I have shared a great deal of the book with others. I have a list of people to lend my book to and have also encouraged others to purchase their own copy. It's been a real positive eye opener. I'm sure there is activities going on in my state/diocese but not enough to make it into this book. I do know others who belong to certain Orders or attend some of the schools mentioned. If the young continue the things they are in to then the CatholicChurch is really alive and well-and growing. Just wish I had these opportunities available when I was young.
Thank you, Tim Drake