Tag Archives: Sacraments

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Picture Perfect: The Sacramental Nature of the Church

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Goal of this Life Night: The goal of this night is to introduce the new semester on the Sacraments to the teens. The night will help teens understand why the Sacraments were given to the Church. About this Life Night: This Life Night kicks off the semester on the Sacraments. It is a fun way to get the teens involved in learning more about the Sacraments. The night will begin with the teens and Core members getting to know each other better while participat- ing in a photo scavenger hunt. The teaching

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Wipeout!: Challenges to Worship and Sacraments

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Goal of this Life Night: The goal of this Life Night is to help the teens understand some common questions about the sacraments and how we worship as Catholics. The teens will be given an open forum to ask questions and seek answers. The teens will leave this Life Night with the confidence to seek the answers to their faith that they do not always understand. About this Life Night: This Life Night will be a great opportunity for the teens to express confusions or frustrations they have experienced

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Edge Semester Planning Guide: Sacraments

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The goal of this resource is to help you provide systematic and complete catechesis for your middle school youth while providing opportunities for evangelization and transformation as well. Each book contains a semesters-worth of catechetical Edge Night outlines. Beginning with the March 2010 resources, we are presenting a six-semester Edge curriculum. This systematic approach to middle school catechesis is designed to create a foundation for the United States Council of Catholic Bishops’ Framework

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Move That Bus! 3 Elements of a Catholic Youth Ministry Makeover

By | December 28, 2010

What if you could take a week long break with your family and go to Disneyworld while a team of youth ministry “guru’s” came in and did an extreme makeover of youth ministry at your parish? When you returned and yelled – “Move that bus!”, and the bus rolled away – what would be different?

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I Hope You Get To Experience That Kind of Love

By | December 19, 2010

The only detail left to close the deal was if the car dealer could have the car ready for his son to pick it up in time for his senior prom. You see this dad wanted his son to know he loved and trusted him. This dad loved buying new cars and this one was special, a brand new Lincoln Continental…..

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Unfair

By | December 5, 2010

Many of the things surrounding Catholic Youth Ministry today could be considered unfair. Check out this list and see if you agree…

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C’Mon Man! – How Catholic Men Can Keep it Real!

By | November 2, 2010

There is a sports pre-game show that has a feature called “C’mon Man”. I love this feature as it shows various athletes, coaches, officials and team owners caught doing something either lame or foolish. The premise of the show is that the featured C’mon Man personality hasn’t kept it real and created a “what are you thinking?” moment. So I thought as Catholic men we could translate this into how we live our faith authentically.

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Life Teen – Leading Teens To Priestly Vocations!

By | October 29, 2010

This summer, we surveyed over 600 seminarians and found that relationships with parish priests and youth ministers were among the most influential in seminarians’ vocational discernment. 30% of surveyed seminarians stated that Life Teen played a role in helping them discern their vocation. In addition 49% had attended at least one parish or national Life Teen event during high school. What makes this statistic worth considering, is the fact that Life Teen is currently being implemented in only 1400 of the 18,000 U.S. Catholic parishes.

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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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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