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Encouraging schoolies to lives full of faith

byEmilie Ng
24 November 2013
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Vino and virtues: Faith on Tap is a monthly social Catholic event that attracts more than 100 young adults to talk about faith at The Pineapple Hotel, Kangaroo Point.

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Vino and virtues: Faith on Tap is a monthly social Catholic event that attracts more than 100 young adults to talk about faith at The Pineapple Hotel, Kangaroo Point.

MOVED by the tragic stories reported during Schoolies Week on the Gold Coast, Brisbane’s Faith on Tap team hope to encourage school leavers towards goodness and virtues at their next event in December.

School leavers are invited to a special “Schoolies Edition” of FOT during the school holidays to connect with other Catholics before embarking on post-high school life.

FOT team member Allison Atkins was on retreat at Marian Valley, listening to the heart-wrenching story of Isabelle Colman, a school leaver who died after an apartment fall during Schoolies Week last year.

The story was shared in a homily given by Marian Valley’s Pauline priest and police chaplain, Fr Columba Macbeth-Green.

Fr Macbeth-Green was on duty with police the night of Miss Colman’s accident and administered the last rites to the 17 year-old former Mt St Michael’s College student.

The story “left a strong imprint” on Miss Atkins.

Starting faith: School leavers are invited to a special "Schoolies Edition" of Faith on Tap to hear from selected high school graduates speak on topics of interest. Photo: Chris McCormack
Starting faith: School leavers are invited to a special “Schoolies Edition” of Faith on Tap to hear from selected high school graduates speak on topics of interest.
Photo: Chris McCormack

“When school finishes many familiar social structures disappear for friendship and co-curricular activates likes sports, music, and so on,” she said.

She said these “disappearing social structures” make young people more susceptible to “gravitate towards binge drinking”, a major problem at Schoolies.

Miss Atkins said it was a priority for FOT, a social apostolate aimed at inspiring young adults into living virtuous lives, to give young people an alternative to a the increasing binge drinking culture.

“We must help young people take their lives seriously, even if they don’t,” she said.

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“We can’t sit back and watch the landslide of young adult’s vital years into a landslide of secular culture which often leaves lifelong scars that stretch well beyond the weeks’ vacation.

“We need only look to heroes of the faith like St Therese of Lisieux, who at the tender age of 24, reached the heights of sanctity and was proclaimed a doctor of the Church.”

Events are normally open for young adults between 18 and 35, but the team have chosen to grant “early access” to Year 12 school leavers to FoT “even if they’re aged 17”.

Event organisers said 17 year olds would have access to the function room used for FoT located above the Hotel bar, but they would not be allowed to buy alcohol at the bar.

The first FoT “Schoolies Edition” will be on December 9 from 6.30pm at The Pineapple Hotel, Kangaroo Point.

For more information, contact the FoT team on faithontap@yahoo.com.au.

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