"Young people tell bishops of their desire to grow in faith, in the church
BALTIMORE — If honesty is indeed the best policy, then two young people addressing the U.S. bishops about the joys and struggles of growing in faith became policymakers during a Nov. 16 session at the bishops’ annual fall gen"
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"eral assembly in Baltimore.
Rudy Delaney and Cecilia Flores opened up about their own experiences and the stumbling blocks that can get in the way.
The two were selected as delegates from their respective dioceses to attend a June 23-26 gathering in Chicago called “Alive in Christ: Young, Diverse, Prophetic Voices Journeying Together.” About 325 ministry leaders, young adults and bishops came together for the “Journeying Together” process.
Delaney, a campus minister at Notre Dame of Maryland University in Baltimore, recounted one episode that happened at the gathering.
Known as “the music guy,” Delaney, who is Black, said that on Sunday mornings, “gospel music could be heard at home, or at my parish.”
On the first night of the Chicago gathering, some attendees were “speculating and anticipating would be sung at the next day’s Mass. You could hear ‘Total Praise’ or ‘Hallelujah! Salvation and Glory.’ As we remembered those songs we grew up on, there was joy in our hearts that night,” Delaney told the bishops.
“When we did not hear the songs that day, we felt disappointed and that it was a missed opportunity,” he said. “It was not the first time,” he added, yet “it is not unique to our culture. You say you get used to it, but you don’t.”
Then Delaney started wondering, “Is it something that can be fixed? … Was it something that can be possible? It turned out it was. All the relationships were already there.”
It turned out that Flores was the one who interceded. “She heard us lament and sing another round of songs,” Delaney said. “It turns out we were rehearsing that night,” as their favorites were incorporated into another liturgy.
Delaney said all it took was “honesty, awareness, inclusion and healing.”
There were “moments of tension which appeared and perhaps felt chaotic” in Chicago, Flores acknowledged. But there was “a greater reality happening that brought me great joy and hope: shepherds being shepherds, and disciples of the Lord being disciples. The disciples felt their pain; the shepherds listened.”
Rejection and clericalism are but two of the reactions young people face more frequently, Flores said. “I wonder what it could be like if we lived church like this every day,” she added, “if young adults felt seen, loved, heard, trusted,” and “what it would take for us to get there.”
Flores, a community organizer in Sacramento, California, and chair of the “Journeying Together” young adult multicultural advisory committee, told the bishops that “fostering interpersonal relationships and intergenerational dialogue is needed.”
From the Chicago experience, she said, “emerged a new community of leaders with a desire to share thei