” “Meeting at the pub on the first Monday every month to speak of Christ and share with other young people one’s walk of faith and the problems it involves. It was proposed by Theology on Tap (TOT), a group of students from Notre Dame Catholic University of Sydney, which started it about one year ago and after the recent WYD is now a success. Over three hundred young people attended today’s meeting in a pub in Parramatta, west of the Australian city. The focus of the meeting was the relation between faith and friendship. "Faith is turning out to be a process to give back substance to the fundamental values of this land explains to SIR the speaker of today’s night meeting, the theologian Peter Holmef of the Catholic University of Sydney . What is important at this stage is listening to the others, not trying to convince or convert them. The evangelical announcement must feed on the testimony, and listening is a first step". "Theology On Tap is a way to feel close to the Church and thus live one’s Catholic identity. It’s nice to see, especially after the WYD, that people are more interested in exploring the subjects of faith. When we started we were just 90 people, now there are on average 600 young people. The choice of meeting at the pub as a place of socialisation makes meeting easier", concludes Patrick Langrell of TOT’s staff.” “
