“The prayer to Our Father is inserted into the mysterious mission of the Son and of the Spirit.” – Catechism of the Catholic Church 2766 A quick overview This retreat focuses on the Lord’s Prayer. The sessions, if done in order, will actually unpack the Our Father, but in reverse. We begin by focusing on the final petitions of personal temptation and deliverance and work our way back through the prayer until we arrive as one united body beckoning “Our Father.” Many of the ideas
Goal for this Life Night The goal of this Life Night is to answer the questions “what is prayer?” and “why do we need a prayer life?” Using the Lord’s Prayer as a starting point, the teens will learn the importance of prayer as the foundation of their relationship with God. About this night Prayer is at the heart of a relationship with Jesus. Jesus not only calls us to pray, He also teaches us how to pray through His words and example. This night looks at the call to prayer in a culture that demands
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Objective: The middle school youth will define “sin” and “forgiveness.” They also will consider the lesson that the Lord’s Prayer conveys about forgiveness of sin. Overview: Catholic doctrine teaches that God created humans with free will, and humans introduced sin into the world by choosing evil over good. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: The account of the fall in Genesis 3 uses figurative language, but affirms a primeval event, a deed that took place at the beginning
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Objective: The middle school youth will understand that God alone forgives sins, although we all are called to be reconciled with those who trespass against us, as well as those we trespass against. Overview: As Catholics, we have a great gift in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church reminds us: Only God forgives sins. Since he is the Son of God, Jesus says of himself, “The Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins” and exercises this divine power:
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Objective: The middle school youth will come to a deeper understanding of the Lord’s Prayer and learn how to apply the principles of this prayer to their lives Overview: Often Jesus makes things quite simple for us, as He did with this prayer that He taught us, which we call the Lord’s prayer or the Our Father. The disciples asked Jesus how to pray and He gave them the words to use (Matthew 6, Luke 11). Through this prayer we learn what God wants us to focus on in our prayer lives: […]
Goal for the Life Night: Building on all that has been learned about prayer, the goal of this Night is to help teens see how the Our Father captures “all things learned, and all that can be learned” in the perfect prayer. Life Night at a Glance: This LIFE Night will allow the teenagers to look at their relationship with God the Father. The Night starts off with some activities that the teenagers will have to do. They will have to work together as a family to do the task. Most of our teenagers live