Category Archives: Church

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Not of This World

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 The goal of this session is to empower the middle school youth to live out their faith beginning in prayer and community. Overview: In his letter to the Romans, St. Paul tells us: Do not conform yourself to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect (12:2). When we make the commitment to living the life of a Christian, our lives have to change. Our character, our actions, our words

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From Charity to Solidarity

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 The goal of this session is to teach the middle school youth about sharing the Good News with the poor and will introduce them to the idea of missionary work. Overview: One of the ways we are called to evangelize is through works of charity to the poor and less fortunate: The works of mercy are charitable actions by which we come to the aid of our neighbor in his spiritual and bodily necessities. Instructing, advising, consoling, comforting are spiritual works of mercy, as are forgiving

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A Call to Authenticity

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 The goal of this session is to give the middle school youth the confidence to share their faith with their friends and to teach them that the best way to evangelize their peers is by being a living example of authentic faith. Overview: Most Catholics are surrounded everyday by non-believers. We have to assume that the majority of the people our middle school youth are surrounded by at school or in extracurricular activities, are unchurched. Challenging middle school youth to preach

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We Are Family

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 The goal of this session is for the middle school youth to understand the importance of evangelizing within their families. Overview: The Church speaks frequently about the importance of family, especially the role of parents in the evangelization of their children. Through the grace of the sacrament of marriage, parents receive the responsibility and privilege of evangelizing their children. Parents should initiate their children at an early age into the mysteries of the faith of

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I Am Yours

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This session will challenge the middle school youth to have confidence in the love God has for them and in their ability to live good and holy lives, so they become confident evangelists. Overview: The Good News that we are called to preach to all the nations cannot be preached authentically unless we first believe it for ourselves. The Good News we are preaching is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and has risen from the dead. If this fact is true, then we can believe all the promises

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A Life of Virtue

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The goal of this session is to discuss living a life of virtue, one of the main themes in the writings of St. Paul. The middle school youth will come to see how they must live lives rooted in faith, hope and most especially, love to become effective evangelists. Overview: The writings of St. Paul compose almost half of the New Testament and within them we can find great wisdom and many insights into what it takes to live the life of a Christian. One main theme from the writings of St.

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Don’t Give Up

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This session is an introduction to the life of St. Paul as the model evangelizer and will show the middle school youth the importance of perseverance in their faith and efforts of evangelization. Overview: St. Paul, author of more than half of the books of the New Testament and one of the greatest evangelists of all time, has one of the most amazing stories of conversion in the entire Bible. A persecutor of Christians, Saul was headed to Damascus when he was blinded by a great light

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Destination: Heaven

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Objective:The goal of this session is to introduce the middle school youth to the concept of heaven as complete joy and communion with God; and to present the salvation of others as the goal of our evangelistic efforts. Overview: The concept of heaven is one that can confound and mystify even the most devout of Catholic adults, so it can be a hard idea to teach to today’s youth. The Catholic Church defines heaven as: This perfect life with the Most Holy Trinity – this communion of life and love

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The Good News

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Objective:The goal of this session is to get the middle school youth excited about their faith and create in them a desire to share it, while also providing a background of what evangelization is and practical ways to do it. Overview: For many years the word “evangelization” had a negative and almost scary connotation for most Catholics. Many Catholics immediately think of evangelization as either something that made them very uncomfortable, something that the non-Catholic Christians do, or something

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Holy Days of Obligation

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Objective: To help the middle school youth understand the Church’s teachings regarding the Holy Days of Obligation and our need to participate in those holy days as we strive for sanctity and piety. Overview: On December 13, 1991 the members of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United States of American made the following general decree concerning holy days of obligation for Latin rite Catholics: In addition to Sunday, the days to be observed as holy days of obligation in the