Category Archives: Catechetical Life Night

Life Night

The Family Bible: Catholics and the Bible

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Goal of the Life Night The goal of this night is to help teens understand the integral role of Scripture in the Catholic Church and address misconceptions people may hold about Catholics and the Bible. About this Life Night This Life Night begins with a game that challenges teens of different grade levels in their knowledge of Sacred Scripture and popular literature. The game transitions into the teaching, which addresses the relationship between the Catholic Church and Sacred Scripture, as

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Fullness of Time: Divine Revelation

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Goal of this Life Night The goal of this Life Night is to help teenagers understand how God has revealed Himself throughout history, particularly through Sacred Scripture. It will challenge the teens to respond to that revelation in their own lives. About this Life Night This Life Night begins the semester on Sacred Scripture. Its focus is on the ways that God has revealed Himself to us, which are expressed most perfectly in Christ. The night begins with teenagers being challenged to participate

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Divine Music: The Psalms

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Goal of this Life Night The goal of this session is to inspire teens to experience the beauty and power of praying the Psalms, help them understand why the Psalms were written, and provide an experience of Liturgy of the Hours. About this Life Night The Book of Psalms consists of 150 song-prayers traditionally ascribed to the authorship of King David. Pope Benedict XVI tells us, “These inspired songs teach us how to speak to God, expressing ourselves and the whole range of our human experience

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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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Mission Academy: Living the Missionary Call

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Goal of this Life Night The goal of this Life Night is to teach teens what it means to be missionary, to raise awareness of Life Teen Missions, and to invite and empower the teens to be missionary in their own lives. About this Life Night When teens hear the word “missionary,” they may think of someone who gives up the comforts of life to travel to a far-off land to serve others and talk about Jesus. They may think of the “mission field” as some place foreign, a place that is full

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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