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Starting new ministries in an unfamiliar parish is no easy task. In a dream world one would have several months to assess the culture and needs of a parish before they would even dream of deciding what to do. This is typically not the reality for most parishes or ministries.

I was talking with a friend that I’ve known for about 10 years, he served in youth ministry in the same area that I first started ministry in. I asked him how many personal retreats he went on as a Catholic youth minister and he just laughed. You see for as much talk as we youth minsters do, it is hard for us to convince ourselves to take the time away from our ministries. Hypocritical much?