In this episode Jo Boyce will be talking Maria Bracken and Celebrating our Youth Ministry Roots – it is how Mike Stanley and Jo met more than 20 years ago – and we still have strong links with many Diocesan Youth Services across the UK.

Maria Bracken, is the Youth Ministry Co-ordinator for Birmingham Catholic Youth Service; she shares some of the hilarious and inspiring highlights of her own faith journey; and her passion for working with young people.

In this episode Jo Boyce and Maria share their story about Catholic Youth work:

In this episode we play several songs: You Are My Hands – the song that Jo sang in the Car for Fr Mike White when she had her VERY informal interview for Soli House back in the Summer of 1992.

Jo Boyce announces she will be taking an 8 week sabbatical from 11 April to 6 June 2014.  The Archdiocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes is on 24 – 31 May 2014.  Our next episode topic will be The Art of the Bidding Prayer.

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In this episode Jo Boyce will be talking about Born for This – Our musical interpretation of the Stations of the Cross, which, over the past 20 years or so, has been a key part of the Lenten journey for more people than we can really begin to fathom.

One of those people is 20 year old, Hannah Kelly – who shares her wonderful memories and experience of being part of our Born for This cast for more than 10 years.

In this episode Jo Boyce shares a little bit of the story behind how Born for This came to be and her experience of writing the songs. Speaking with Jo, Hannah shares

In this episode we play several of the key songs from Born for This which can be found on the Born for This CD and music book.

Details of various Born for This presentations that listeners have submitted can be found in a separate post here.

We are sure there are many others productions taking place that we don’t know about, so feel free to share the details in the COMMENTS section below these episode notes.

Jo Boyce and the CJM Collective aren’t presenting Born for This in 2014, but they will be doing three special Songs of the Prodigal Concerts which will be wonderful evenings of music and reflection for Lent.

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In this month’s episode, we remember and celebrate the music and legacy of our co-founder, Mike Stanley, who sadly died on Thursday 6 June 2013, aged just 48.

As we kick off the new year, Mike is very much in our hearts and minds. He would have celebrated his 49th birthday this month and one of his last public appearances with the CJM team was a year ago, for the BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship broadcast on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord.

In this episode Jo Boyce is talking to Andrew Moss, one of the many wonderful musicians who make up the CJM MUSIC Collective. Together they share their memories of the early days of the Boyce & Stanley musical partnership – even before the official incarnation of CJM MUSIC.

The songs that Jo and Andrew discuss in this episode are true CJM classics:

Andrew mentions the new Mass settings written by Mike and recorded on on Rejoice n Sing Vol. 3 and we hear the Gloria from the Mass of St Jude.  He also talks about being involved in the recording of ssongs for How Can We Keep from Singing? Vol. 3 and Mike’s CD, Faith.

Hi it’s Millie from Huddersfield, one of my favourite memories of Mike is when the Walsignham pilgrimage in 2010 and I was sat on the ground with a sign and Mike came and sat next to me.  We talked for at least 20 minutes about music and I could have sat and listened to him all day because he was so amazingly interesting and that memory will stay with me forever.

My name is Pauline Payne and I run our folk group at St Mary’s Catholic Church in South Wigston, in Leicester we’ve been very inspired by Mike’s music, ministry and all the workshops we’ve been to with himself and Jo.  We’d just like to say we always found him to be a very happy, pleasant, sincere and holy man who was proud of his faith and family and a very sincere way of passing on his faith to us all.  An inspirational person whose work will go on for a long time.

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In this second part of a two-part series podcast (listen to Part 1 here), we join Archbishop Vincent Nichols to discuss the second volume of the landmark Boyce & Stanley album Age to Age II: The Journey Continues. His Grace shares his personal reflections on how these songs have “formed and informed generations” of faith. This is the second volume of the landmark Boyce & Stanley album, Age to Age: A Pilgrim People.

In this episode we look at the songs that have stood the test of time and how they can still enrich our liturgy and worship today.

“The project itself and the title is lovely because

Therefore what is loved and treasured by a Grandma

The songs that Jo, Mike and Archbishop Vincent Nichols discuss in this episode are true CJM classics:

You can buy Age to Age II: The Journey Continues

Boyce & Stanley album Age to Age II: The Journey Continues is available to buy from our shop and on iTunes.

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