Category Archives: Vocation

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Would You Rather?: Discernment

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Goal of this Life Night The goal of the night is to define discernment and help youth understand how discernment plays out in everyday life as we live our universal call to holiness. The night will also provide practical ways to discern God’s will in both small and big decisions. About this Life Night The night begins with an interactive and fun game show called, “Would You Rather?”The game leads into the Proclaim, which emphasizes our universal call to love and spread the Gospel, while

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Playing House: Cohabitation

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Goal of this Life Night This night will emphasize the foundational nature of chastity to our vocation and provide the Church’s teaching on cohabitation. It will challenge the teens to find freedom in being obedient to that teaching, and stress the need to protect the Sacrament of matrimony. About this Life Night The night will begin with a game between a guy and a girl modeled after “Family Feud.” This fun and interactive game exposes teens to some humorous conceptions of marital relations

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Persona Christi: Priesthood

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Goal of this Life Night The goal of this night is to define and affirm the priesthood and help the teens to discern their vocation. It will also affirm any young men who feel they may have a calling to the priesthood and encourage them to continue to explore that calling. About this Life Night The first thing you will need to do when planning this night is to ask your priest(s) ahead of time to be a part of the night. Be sure to go over any of the specific roles he will have for the night so

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The Call: God’s Call to Each of Us

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Goal of this Life Night The goal for this Life Night is to help teens understand that a vocation is different from a job or a career; it is a specific and unique call from God that is to be lived out. This night will offer examples of each of the four traditionally recognized vocations: marriage, committed single life, consecrated life, and ordained. About this Life Night making choices is part of everyday life. Outfits are chosen, jobs are chosen, friends are chosen, but to be called to something

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The Bridegroom Says Come: Consecrated Life

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Goal of this Life Night The goal of this Life Night is to introduce the vocation of consecrated life as a person giving up earthly marriage for marriage with God. It will connect this special relationship with the ability to hear God’s voice, and challenge teens to learn from aspects of the consecrated life, especially in the realm of prayer. About this Life Night This night should emphasize that when a person discerns entering religious life he or she is not “giving up” marriage. Instead,

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Kicking Up Dust: The Diaconate

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Goal of this Life Night This night will encourage and empower teenagers to live lives of humble servanthood with joy in imitation of the diaconate. It will also provide the teens with concrete ways to serve in their homes, schools, and at church. About this Night The beauty of being a deacon is not to have a certain title in the Church, but to exemplify what it means to be a servant of others. Teens can live out this call in their every day lives. The Life Night this week begins with the Life

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What You Want: Marriage

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Goal of this Life Night This night will help teens understand God’s plan for marriage and the role this sacrament plays in building up the Church. It will challenge teens to think about what kind of marriage they want to have, as well as what they will bring to their marriage rather than what they will “get” from it. About this Life Night This night is about the vocation of marriage. It will address questions like: What is marriage? Why would you want to get married? What do you get verse

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Rosetta Stone: Vocation Today

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Goal of this Life Night The goal of this night is to close out the semester on vocation by re-emphasizing our universal vocation. The universal call to holiness is the most important vocation the teens can discover. It is only in living out holiness in our daily lives that we discover God’s greater and larger plan for us. About this Life Night Tonight will be the capstone of everything discussed during the Vocation Semester. The teens should leave feeling empowered and eager to live out

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Life Teen Curriculum Guide 16: Vocations

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This semester is on vocations. Immediately, most think of vocations to the priesthood, marriage, and consecrated or single life. While these life calls are most definitely all vocations, the starting place of a vocation begins with the call we each receive at the moment of our baptism. “All Christians in any state or walk of life are called to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection of charity.” All are called to holiness: “Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” In order

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Re-Gifted: Universal Call to Holiness

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Goal for the Life Night: The goal for this Life Night is to introduce this semester on vocation. This Life Night will address the universal vocation of holiness before we talk about specific vocations. Life Night at a Glance: This Life Night seeks to break open the foundation of all vocations—our call to holiness. In this first night of the vocations semester, the teens will understand that no matter what specific vocation God calls them to, they must first offer themselves as a gift back to the