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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.

Life Night

Ashes to Ashes: The Season of Lent

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Goal The goal of this Life Night gives both teens and their families an opportunity to break open the season of Lent, specifically the theme of sacrifice. It also challenges the teens and families to create a Lenten prayer plan. About this night This Life Night can be used as an introduction to the season of Lent. This Life Night is designed to include teens and their families and help them to dive deeper into Lent. Be sure to plan ahead to invite all teens and their families from the parish. Have

Spotlight Magazine

Spotlight Magazine, Volume 09: Behold the Mystery

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In this issue of Spotlight, we share articles, Life Nights, and stories to help you get 2010 started off right.

Liturgy Planning Guide

Full Liturgy Planning Guide: 11/29/2009 through 03/21/2010

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It is Christ in the Eucharist that our young people hunger for. It is He that will transform hearts and lives. It is in the Holy Mass that our young people come face to face with the fulfillment of all their desires. What a gift to us who are entrusted to helping the young people understand, receive and respond to Christ in the Mass! Thank you for the sacrifice and effort you put into the youth-focused Liturgies at your parish. Quality youth-focused liturgies are the center of a dynamic and effective

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The Season of Lent

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 The middle school youth will develop a deeper awareness of the season of Lent; its traditions and significance to the spiritual life of a Christian. Overview: The Lenten season is one of sacrifice, almsgiving, prayer and fasting. Few of our modern middle school youth are accustomed to these things, nor do most of them know the significance of the Lenten Christian practices. Lent is a time to shed all that interferes with our relationship with God. It is a time of change: a change of

Liturgy Planning Guide

Full Liturgy Planning Guide: 11-30-2008 through 03-29-2009

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Thank you for the sacrifice and effort you put into the youth-focused Liturgies at your parish. Quality youth- focused liturgies are the center of a dynamic and effective Life Teen program. We at Life Teen want to do everything we can to ensure that your young people are active conscious participants in the celebration of the Holy Mass. This is our Liturgy Planning Guide; the purpose of this book is to facilitate the planning of vibrant youth-focused liturgies. As Catholics, the Eucharist is the

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Desert Dwellers: Finding Life in Lent

By | February 19, 2008

From Spotlight, Spring 2008 Cool Breeze…Suffocating Heat Rain…Drought Rich color contrasts…Brown Lady Bugs…Scorpions Garden…Desert Given the choice, which one would you choose? I’ll go with the garden. In Scripture, the imagery of gardens and deserts provides for us a vast contrast of settings, themes and spiritual undertones. Many great moments in Scripture happen in gardens: creation, the fall, Jesus’ agony and arrest and the Resurrection. There are also great moments that happened

Life Night

Deserted: A Life Night on Lent

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Goal for the Life Night: The goal for the night is to help the teens understand how the season of Lent calls us out of the garden and into the desert with Christ for a time of preparation and purification. This night will also help the teens experience through the five senses the changes that happen during Lent within the Church. Life Night at a Glance: This night is a good way to help the teens understand why our Church has this season called Lent. The night begins by breaking the teens up into

Liturgy Planning Guide

Liturgy Planning Guide: 12-02-2007 through 03-23-2008

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This is our Liturgy Planning Guide; the purpose of this book is to facilitate the planning of vibrant youth-focused liturgies. While the look of our resources has changed over the years, the aim and goal as remained the same – to provide valuable, usable resources that help make quality youth ministry possible in every parish. As Catholics, the Eucharist is the source and summit of our faith – the celebration of Mass draws the faithful into a dynamic encounter with the living God. As a movement

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Don’t Get Bent Over Lent

By | February 6, 2007

So it’s Lent; a season of penitence, prayer and fasting. To some, that may not sound very exciting, but it’s nothing to get bent out of shape about. The reality is: our Liturgies should change. In order to experience Resurrection, we have to first die to some things that bring us joy. We put away the Gloria and the Alleluia’s until the great celebration of Easter. We scale back our music so there is a noticeable difference from the rest of the Liturgical year. This doesn’t mean that we get