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4th Sunday of Easter – 05/15/2011

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Video: Fr. Bob Schreiner “The Sacramental Mystery” from the 2010 Life Teen Training Convention

By | October 14, 2010

Many of you have requested that we share some of the best keynotes from Life Teen training conference here on CatholicYouthMinistry.com. I am pleased to share with you all keynote from Fr. Bob Schreiner unpacking our 2010 theme “Behold the Mystery” amidst ordinary–and often funny–experiences of the sacraments. Fr. Bob spoke to a group of 600 at the Life Teen Training Convention in Scottsdale, Arizona. You’re gonna love this! Sacramental Mystery [Life Teen] from Life Teen on Vimeo.Excerpt from

Life Teen Retreat

Baptized Core Retreat

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Why do a Core Retreat ? With everything else that fills the youth ministry calendar, why take more time to do a retreat for the Core Team? Good question with an even better answer. Simply put, we cannot expect the teens to take time to encounter Christ on a retreat if we do not do the same. We cannot expect to lead the teens to a profound relationship with God if we are not developing one ourselves. And in the end, God brought you into youth ministry not to just transform teen’s hearts, but to

Life Night

I Swear: A Life Night on Covenants

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This Life Night will give the teens an introduction and overview of the Old Testament covenants God made with His people. This night will cover the signs and promises of each covenant and how the Israelites chose to follow (and not follow) God’s covenants. Finally, this night will give the teens an opportunity to look at the covenants between themselves and God.

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Edge Retreat

Revolutionary Love Retreat

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Retreat Objectives Session 1a: The goal of this session is for the middle school youth to discover the need for Christ in their lives and increase their desire to grow closer to him. Session 1b: The goal of this session is for the middle school youth to recognize the greatness of God and see how He wants them to reflect that greatness to the world. Session 2: The middle school youth will come to understand that Jesus reveals Himself in many different ways. They will be challenged to open

Life Night

Family Traits

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Goal for the Life Night: Building on the first Night, the goal of this Night is to show how the Church itself is the first Sacrament. Teens will come to a greater understanding that through the Church, the very Life of God flows into our lives giving us the grace we need to follow Christ and participate with Him in the building of His Kingdom and the ongoing work of redemption, and ultimately to be with Him for all eternity. Life Night at a Glance: The evening begins with a game show entitled “What

Life Night

Merge

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Goal of the Life Night: To bring the teens to a deeper understanding of the three Sacraments of Initiation and the permanent change affected bythese Sacrament. Life Night at a Glance: Teens generally take the Sacraments of Initiation for granted. They are seen as the “hoops” they must jump through in order to become a full member of the Church, as if God’s Family is some type of social club. Not true! The Sacraments of Initiation lay the foundation of our “MERGING” into the Divine Life and into