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Summary of today\u2019s show: The Office for the New Evangelization of Youth and Young Adults is entering a busy time in the Archdiocese of Boston and Fr. Mat Williams and Scot Landry discuss their big initiatives, including this past weekend\u2019s Eucharistic Congress that came at a particularly appropriate time after last week\u2019s Marathon bombings; the upcoming World Youth in Rio in July that is shaping up to be a massive and inspirational event; and the annual Awards Banquet that honors those around the archdiocese, youth, young adults, and parish leaders, who witness to Christ in their lives through youth and young adult ministry experiences. Also, the Spring fund drive for WQOM has started this week. To support the work of WQOM and The Station of the Cross, which brings Catholic programming like The Good Catholic Life to the Boston area, please be as generous as your means permit with .\nListen to the show:\n\nWatch the show via live video streaming or a recording later: \nToday\u2019s host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Matt Williams\nToday\u2019s topics: The Work of the Office for the New Evangelization of Youth and Young Adults\n1st segment: Scot Landry welcomed Fr. Matt Williams to the show and they discussed last weekend\u2019s Eucharistic Congress for Young Adults and College Students. He said it was a beautiful opportunity to gather in prayer following the marathon bombings last Monday. Scot noted that Friday night\u2019s events didn\u2019t go off as planned because of the city\u2019s lockdown. He said Msgr. James Moroney had been scheduled to speak, but they had to cancel it. On Saturday, usually they\u2019d be doing service projects from noon to four. One of the goals of the congress is to show the link between worship in the Mass and serving our neighbor, but because they weren\u2019t able to use Friday to sign up attendees for the projects they had to forgo them. So they started at 5pm at St. Leonard\u2019s with Cardinal Se\xe1n and the speaker on Saturday night was Susan Conroy, who we\u2019ve had on the show recently talking about the life of Mother Teresa.\nFr. Matt also talked about Cardinal Se\xe1n\u2019s keynote, in which he reflected on his recent pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but also how he related it to the events of the past week in Boston. He also noted how during the Eucharistic procession through the North End\u2019s streets was so impactful that people who were just passing by joined them in the walk.\nBreak for Fund Drive Appeal. To support the work of WQOM and The Station of the Cross, which brings Catholic programming like The Good Catholic Life to the Boston area, please be as generous as your means permit with .\n2nd segment: Scot and Fr. Matt discussed the upcoming World Youth Day in Rio. Scot said a few months ago, there were two million expected to go, but that was before the first Latin American Pope was elected and it\u2019s going to be much bigger. Fr. Matt said his office is organizing the archdiocesan trip and now more than 3 million young people are expected to descend upon World Youth Day this summer.\nFr. Matt has been to five World Youth Days before and Scot said he went to World Youth Day in Denver in 1993. Fr. Matt said he keeps going back each time because it creates the perfect environment to inspire and evangelize young people to greatness in Christ. Many seminarians have a World Youth Day experience as part of their resume.\nHe said there are many reason it inspires young people, but most of all they see others who are living it. These witnesses are seeking to become the people God created them to be and this is inspiring to the young people. They are priests and lay leaders in their own groups and from around the world. It\u2019s also the Holy Father, in this case, Pope Francis, who young people respond to. These men speak truth and call them to greatness.\nFr. Matt said they could squeeze a few more in for the trip in late July.\nBreak for Fund Drive Appeal. To support the work of WQOM and The Station of the Cross, which brings Catholic programming like The Good Catholic Life to the Boston area, please be as generous as your means permit with .\n3rd segment: Scot and Fr. Matt discussed the annual awards banquet for youth and youth leaders throughout the Archdiocese of Boston. Next Tuesday evening, they will be at Lombardo\u2019s in Randolph. He believes it started as an annual CYO sports awards banquet many years ago and it has expanded greatly over the years.\nScot said what really touches him is when he hears someone talk about how they wouldn\u2019t even be practicing their faith if not for one of these people who are nominated for recognition. Fr. Matt said in many parishes there are people who seek to make a gift of themselves, and the faith wouldn\u2019t be transmitted forward if not for them. He said they recently honored one man who had been a catechist for more than 50 years. Scot said we\u2019re all the face of the Church when we\u2019re giving back to God. For many people, we may be the only Catholic they know who goes to church and everyone time we make a gift of love, we are the positive face of the Church.\nFr. Matt said today at Mass Fr. Mark O\u2019Connell talked about how the apostles went from the Upper Room out to proclaim the Good News even into Gentile areas, which would have been unheard of among Jews of that period. He related the story of a man who was extremely involved in the life of the parish, yet at work the people know nothing about that. We should always be sharing the gift of our faith and asking people to join us. We may be the only Gospel that someone reads in their life.\nBreak for Fund Drive Appeal. To support the work of WQOM and The Station of the Cross, which brings Catholic programming like The Good Catholic Life to the Boston area, please be as generous as your means permit with .