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Are You a Bringer?

By | May 12, 2010

In the Catholic youth ministry world, there’s often a big difference between the bringers and everyone else. The bringers carry somebody or something. They seek or form community and make things happen. It’s not unusual to go to the smallest parish and find someone serving teens there who isn’t small at all. Sometimes, this is an unpaid servant, someone that’s inherited or acquired their mission out of necessity. Anyway, you can’t just say you’re an bringer and be one. It takes a lot of prayer and surrender to be a real bringer!

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Glimpses

By | April 22, 2010

- seeing the teen, who didn’t want to “get into it” because he was forced by his parents to go on retreat, standing in a large group of teens praying with his hands raised!

- hearing your DRE walking by your office humming the tune from the closing song at Teen Mass last night!

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A Catholic Youth Ministry “Gut Check”

By | March 2, 2010

At one time or another we all have moments that are gut checks! Gut checks are a test of one’s nerve, courage, or determination. In Catholic youth ministry it is good to do a quick “Gut Check” of how we are approaching our role as youth minister.

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A “What Not to Wear” Guide to Lent

By | February 15, 2010

What does the show What Not to Wear have to do with Lent? Have I really lost it this time? Not really, take a look and see.

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Are You a Contagious Catholic?

By | February 13, 2010

I am one of those enthusiastic converts to Catholicism. It started when I dated a girl who was a “contagious Catholic” in college. After knowing someone who was that “into” her faith, it actually sold me on giving the Catholic Church a try. I just got an Email with a reflection about being bold in our faith from a friend of mine Fr. Scott Reilly LC. It made me think about those people in my life who have been contagious Catholics. Here is what Fr. Scott wrote: I read this last night in the chapel

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Loving Our Enemies: Dealing With Bullying

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 The middle school youth will come to understand the issues concerning bullying, and learn how to act with a Christ-like heart when faced with these trying situations. Overview: These results from the 2006 Washington State Healthy Youth Survey were released March 21, 2007. They include these disturbing findings: • 29 percent of sixth graders and 26 percent of eighth graders report being bullied at least once in the past 30 days – no significant change since 2004. • Four percent

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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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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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St. Thomas More: Endurance and Faith

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 The middle school youth will be made aware of the life of St. Thomas More and our call to stand up for what is right. Overview: ENDURANCE: The example given to us by St. Thomas More is one that most of us do not have to deal with. We may not be asked to declare the President of the United States as the Supreme Leader of the Catholic Church, but sometimes we may have to listen to others who speak poorly about the Church. People who misunderstand or have been taught untrue things about

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St. Maximilian Kolbe: Courage

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 The middle school youth will develop a deeper understanding of the life of St. Maximilian Kolbe and our call to be courageous in our faith. Overview: This Edge Session explores the life of St. Maximilian Kolbe and how his life calls us all to live our Catholic faith more courageously. The biographical section describes the life of St. Maximilian Kolbe and the amazing legacy that he left behind in a place of complete desolation, a Nazi concentration camp. He truly is a “saint for