Welcome to Theology-on-Tap 2001

Time to Tap into Something Everlasting!
If you have access to email, you probably receive a lot of unsolicited and unwanted mail. Besides the spam we all receive, you might find yourself on a mail list of a number of your friends or work associates.

Join over 3000 of your peers... July 8th thru August 5th Across 5 different dioceses In over 60 parishes and Catholic centers Attend for free

On a daily basis you will receive jokes, stories, political and religious philosophies, meaningful quotes, virus warnings and all types of human interest emails. There is a good chance you will receive the same emails more than once! It seems that a few hundred make the cyberspace rounds on a regular basis. Some I delete without ever opening them and others I scan rather quickly before I exercise the power given me when I click on "delete."

One of the human interest email stories I have received numerous times is making the rounds again this year. You can be on watch for it between now and early fall. It is about the life experience or lack thereof of people entering college in this fall, the class of 2005. They have never known a world without MTV. Until most recently, they have only experienced one American President. The only Pope they have ever known is John Paul II, who has been Pope longer then they have been alive. The Persian Gulf War is practically ancient history to them as are vinyl records. There must be another twenty life experiences that focus on their world and what they have and have not experienced. Each year I find this human-interest article fascinating to read and contemplate.

Though time is constant (a second is a second, an hour an hour – never shorter, never longer), time seems to be moving more quickly today. Life is changing rapidly. The enormously popular, financially successful and futuristic ".com" business world of just eighteen months ago has all but disappeared before our very eyes. How many of us even heard to email just five short years ago? This time last year there were not enough people available fill all the needed jobs in our country. Today we keep hearing about more and more layoffs and business restructurings.

It is no surprise then, that our society is experiencing a spiritual hunger. And many of the hungry are you, young adults in your 20s and 30s. Experiencing change at a record pace and living life daily on the fast track, many of you are searching for and hungry to absorb life experiences, virtues and values that are changeless. Yours is a quest for meaning in a world of novelty. In a world of broken dreams and promises, you are seeking a constant vision for the future of your life and for all who alive – rich and poor, educated and ignorant, young and old, Christian, Muslim, Jew, Serb, Croat, Iraqi, Columbian, Cuban, Chinese. It matters not who or where.

Enter the world of religion, faith and spirituality. Enter the enduring world of Roman Catholicism. Enter the world of Theology-on-Tap. Enter the world of Young Adult Ministry.

Older than the class of 2005, Theology-on-Tap 2001 is an opportunity for you to connect with the world of the Lord Jesus. Theology-on-Tap is your four-week opportunity to tap into the world of meaning, the virtues of love and justice, the experiences of forgiveness and everlasting life promised us by the Lord Jesus and kept alive as a dream to be fulfilled and a promise to be realize for all of God’s people.

Within these pages you will find several hundred opportunities for you, as a young adult believer and seeker, to have your spiritual hunger fed and your quest for meaning, virtue and value rewarded. Over 60 parishes and Catholic centers from five separate Dioceses and Archdioceses, are simultaneously dedicating four weeks to you from July 8th through August 5th.

You are invited to join over 3000 of your peers who, each week, will attend one of the Theology-on-Tap sessions printed here. On Sunday, August 5th, Francis Cardinal George invites you to Mass in Holy Name Cathedral when 1400 young adults will gather to celebrate Eucharist. After Mass, the festivities continue on the lawn of the Cardinal’s residence as we enjoy a picnic, socializing and dancing into the early evening.

Speaking of email, you might want to email your young adult friends and tell them about Theology-on-Tap. If they haven’t received this newsletter, direct them to this web site. You even might want to invite them to join you at Theology-on-Tap this summer!