As our Lenten journey ends and the Sacred Triduum begins, we offer you our prayers for a restful weekend, as well as the following items:

1. Time is running out!! Do you want to know what makes parish youth ministry effective? Learn from two years of research by attending the Effective Practices in Dynamic Youth Ministry Seminar on Thursday, April 22, 2004 at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish. To register, visit the CMD website. Be sure to enter the coupon code WILDEL to receive a discount!

2. The final session of the Youth Ministry Institute will be offered on Saturday, April 17, 2004. This session, Issues Facing Adolescents: Challenges and Opportunities, will be presented by Regina Yankalunas, Coordinator of Campus Ministry at Salisbury University. To register, please contact CYM.

3. How about some good news for a change? Read what the folks at  Spark Magazine have to say about Theology on Tap!

4. Want to earn a certificate in Youth Ministry that's recognized nation wide? If so, plan now to attend the nationally-recognized Youth Ministry Certificate Program, sponsored by the Center for Ministry Development. This professional level certificate program provides a comprehensive grounding in the theory and practice of comprehensive youth ministry in a parish setting. For more information click here.

5. The new key chains are here! Do you have new drivers in your parish? Want to celebrate this rite of passage with a CYM keychain and a note from Bishop Saltarelli? Send an email to Jen at CYM and let her know how many you want and where to send them and she'll take care of the rest!

6. We're trying to update our Resource Library inventory. If you have books, tapes, or videos outstanding, please return them by April 31, 2004. If anyone out there borrowed the movie "Joshua" could you please return it?

7. Have you been thinking about the young people you'd like to send to Youth Leadership Institute this year? If not, please do. We'll be asking for registrations in the coming weeks.

8. It's coming! The info on the National Conference on Catholic Youth Ministry, is coming to your mailbox in the coming weeks.

Quotable: "On Holy Thursday evening we are swept into the three days of the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord - the "Paschal Triduum" - the holiest days of the year. The main event of the Triduum is the Easter Vigil, the night of baptism, the most sacred, most glorious night of the year. That's when fasting passes over into feasting, as through the holy waters the Lord Jesus leads us from slavery and exile into the promised land, the land overflowing with milk and honey." - Peter Mazar