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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

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3 Books That Can Help You Keep Your Heart Open

By | September 19, 2010

People are often asking me to recommend books to read. As a Catholic leader we need to be reading on a regular basis. I have made a commitment over the past several years to read books. I read all types of books and often people recommend books for me to read. I have grown to really love reading and learning from what I read. Here are 3 books that I believe have the ability to make you stronger in your Catholic faith by helping keep your heart open.

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Are You Recharging?

By | August 16, 2010

Being a father of seven children and involved in youth ministry brings many different demands and responsibilities. One of those small but very important tasks that I have to oversee is making sure that the wireless Wii remote controls are properly returned to the charger after being used. We all know that feeling of picking up a dead controller that has not been recharged. Nintendo makes it easy by illuminating a light when the controller is properly placed in the rechargeable cradle. This

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Why Did Jesus Give Us the Eucharist?

By | May 12, 2010

Because we live in a time when the body of the Christ is divided into umpteen million different denominations and independent congregations, we Catholics frequently have to defend our faith. As youth ministry leaders, we want our young people to know their faith and to be able to provide a biblical basis for what we believe. This is often the case with the Eucharist. We try to equip our teens with the answer to the question: “Is the Eucharist really Jesus?” The answer is “yes”! Unlike

Eucharist Talk

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Wisdom of the Saints: “The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ, that the soul may grow fat on God.” – Tertullian “If when He lived in this world, He healed the sick by the mere touch of His garments, what doubt is there but that He will perform miracles, since He is so intimately within us, if we have a lively faith; and that He will grant us what we ask of Him, while He is in our house?” – St. Teresa of Avila “For even though sense suggests this to you, let faith assure

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Confessions of a YM who Doesn’t Go to Daily Mass!

By | July 6, 2009

I don’t go to daily Mass. I don’t visit the Eucharistic chapel in my parish building nearly enough. I don’t schedule prayer time into my daily calendar. I really wish I could do these things, but I don’t. I’m a full-time high school ministry coordinator for two parishes who attends 2 different staff meetings each week. I’m a wife and mother of 2 children under 4, and expecting our 3rd in the fall, and I’m two semesters away from completing my Master’s in Pastoral Studies. I

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Edge Night

Give It Away Now!

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Objective:
 To help the middle school youth look at the excess that often crowds our lives and how excess (both physical and spiritual) often leaves no room for God. Through a clothing drive, this night will give the middle school youth an opportunity to share their possessions with the less fortunate and learn how charity and service are vital parts of an active faith life. Finally, this night will help the middle school youth to connect with the larger Life Teen and Edge community. Overview: As

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Eucharistic Adoration

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Objective:
 The middle school youth will learn how they can grow in their faith by giving thanks to God in Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. Overview: The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches: The Eucharist is a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Father, a blessing by which the Church expresses her gratitude to God for all his benefits, for all that he has accomplished through creation, redemption and sanctification. Eucharist means first of all “thanksgiving” (CCC 1360). As Catholics,

Life Teen Bible Studies

Real Presence: A Bibly Study

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Written by God…brought to you by the Bible Geek® The Catholic belief and understanding of the Eucharist is not restricted to the events explained and gifted to us through Christ in the Gospel accounts, or through St. Luke in Acts and St. Paul in his writings. To understand the Eucharist from a Biblical perspective, we need to have a deeper understanding of God’s entire plan of salvation, beginning in the Old Testament. It’s obvious that the Old Testament Scriptures “prefigured” (a

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