WELCOME SAINT THERESE FAMILIES OF CONFIRMATION AGE YOUTH

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WELCOME SAINT THERESE FAMILIES OF CONFIRMATION
AGE YOUTH
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Overview for this Evening

• Introduction of Ministry Leaders
• Youth Ministry Components
• What is Youth Ministry?
• What is Confirmation?
• Brief History of Youth Ministry/Confirmation in
  our diocese over the last generation.
• What are the Requirements-Saint Therese.
• What does the process of the catechesis of Youth
  Ministry-Confirmation look like at Saint Therese?

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Youth Ministry Components
Catechesis As a Youth you are encouraged to
develop your own faith identity by fostering a
living reality of lifelong learning and a
knowledge of the Catholic Christian Faith.
Advocacy As a Youth you are given a Voice and
are empowered to address your own social
problems that you face in today's world.
CONFIRMATION
CONFIRMATION
Community Life As a Youth you are valued in the
parish and the world and are part of the Church.
Evangelize As a Youth you can learn skills to
make positive choices and evangelize others!
Justice Service As a Youth you will develop a
social awareness to look beyond norms, to see the
needs of others.
Leadership Development As a Youth you are given
leadership opportunities that give you
leadership roles with training and support.
CONFIRMATION
Pastoral Care As a Youth you are given support,
counseling, and referrals in times of crisisand
as you make life decisions and more choices.
Prayer and Worship As a Youth you will experience
sacraments, grow spiritually with different forms
of prayer meditation, and music. We seek to
become one with Jesus Christ!
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Eucharistic spirituality The Eucharist needs
not only be the center of our lives it needs to
be the greatest influence in our lives. Love
Love Requires Sacrifice. The type of Love we
need to show our teenagers is Agape- Agape is
selfless love. This type of love is rare in our
society. Love is not just some warm feeling we
have toward the people in our life who are easy
to love. It is a choice we make to love someone,
even the hardest people for us to love. The
young people here want to be part of
something, to be in communion with other people,
to be wanted. We need to include young people
on the journey to connect them to the Church and
let them know that they are not alone. Joy Is
a spiritual gift which flows from the inner
realization that you are embracing the will of
God. Affirmation Prayer, Love, Even people
who are striving for Holiness need to hear
encouragement from their brothers and
sisters. Its not just saying thank you or good
job it is becoming people of blessing. Authenticit
y When we conform our lives to our original,
God Himself. We are authentic when we stop
trying to be something other than beloved (yet
broken) sons and daughters of God. The Second
part of this is to reproduce the essential
features of God in our everyday
living. Evangelization Without Jesus in our
heart, weve got nothing to say. Without Jesus in
our heart, there is no evangelization. With
Jesus in our heart, everything is evangelization.
Evangelization is no longer what we do but who
we are. Primary vocation Its not all about
what I want to be when I grow up or get involved
with. God is not a waiter, and vocations dont
come on a menu for us to pick what we like. God
gives us free will to choose it or not to, not
the authority to decide on what our vocation
is. The menu has one course we can eat and be
happy, or refuse and be empty. Adam and Eve
thought they could choose their own entrée.
They ate and were left empty. Our primary
vocation as Christians is to Love God. To love
God means to know Him, discern His design for our
lives and trust Him enough to follow His plan,
even if it is not our plan.
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• tWhat is Confirmation?
• The meaning of Confirmation is sometimes
  misunderstood by Catholics. It is common to hear
  that Confirmation is the end of the line
  sacrament-a graduation.
• Life shows us as well as teaches us that it is
  necessary for our Faith to grow deeper and
  stronger each day. Life can gives us many joys
  and Life can be a tangled webs of chaos that
  knocks us down quickly. Our relationship or lack
  of a relationship with God can make it or break
  it for us.

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What is Confirmation?

• The Church has constantly affirmed that
  confirmation is the gift of the Holy Spirit,
  given for the sake of helping a Christian bear
  witness to the faith. It is more about Gods
  gift to us. It has more to do with the grace
  that follows the reception of the sacrament than
  about the preparation that precedes it. Its
  about conversion and transformation and how we
  live out our faith.

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What is Confirmation?

• Baptism, Eucharist, and Confirmation together
  constitute the sacraments of Christian
  initiation, whose unity must be safeguarded. It
  must be explained to the faithful that the
  reception of the sacrament of Confirmation is
  necessary for the completion of baptismal
  grace(Rite of Confirmation, Introduction).
• For by the sacrament of Confirmation the
  baptized are more perfectly bound to the Church
  and are enriched with a special strength of the
  Holy Spirit. Hence they are, as true witnesses
  of Christ, more strictly obliged to spread and
  defend the faith by word and deed (Lumen Gentium
  II) CCC1285

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• From 1983-2008 (9) in the Diocese of Kansas
  City-St. Joseph, the minimum age for the
  Confirmation of those baptized as infants has
  been the 2nd semester of tenth grade lasting
  12-18 months. This policy was implemented under
  Bishop John J. Sullivan (1977-1993).
• Prior to that time. Bishop Charles Helmsing
  (1962-1977) had permitted the Confirmation of
  children before First Communion. Bishop Helmsing
  had been involved with the ecumenical dialogue of
  the Second Vatican Council, and he thought this
  practice was more in keeping with the Eastern
  Rites.
• Bishop Raymond Boland (1993-2005) implemented no
  changes to the policies of Bishop Sullivan.
• Bishop Robert W. Finn (2005) has expressed a
  desire to strengthen youth ministry in the
  diocese, while being open to lowering the age of
  Confirmation. He appointed a commission to study
  the situation.
• The Commission has made a distinction between
  youth ministry and Confirmation catechesis. It
  believes that the process for the sacrament of
  Confirmation be shorten, confirm either at the
  9th or 10th grade year and focusing only on
  confirmation catechesis-church teachings.

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Eligibility-Confirmand

• Must be baptized and not previously confirmed.
• Must be Catholic
• Must be in a state of grace
• Must choose One sponsor
• Must of high school age 14-18

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Eligibility for Sponsors

• Must be Catholic
• Must have received all sacraments
• Must be in a state of grace
• Must be committed to attending sessions, service
  projects, Sacrament of Reconciliation, retreats
  with confirmand
• Must have a mature in faith in accordance to our
  church teachings
• Must be willing to be an active Listener

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Role of Parents

• Model faith through your actions and deeds.
• Attend Mass together.
• Pray together- take turns
• Stay involved in your parish community.
• Spend some time as a family together at home or
  on vacation.
• Spend some time talking to one another.
• Spend some time listening to your teens).
• Set aside at least one day a week to have a meal
  together.
• Hug each other often-Teens hug back.
• Let Go

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Requirements

• Along with sponsor-attend 4 catechetical sessions
  to be held consecutively on Sunday evenings from
  600-830 p.m.-Third Floor Life Teen Floor
• Attend 3 Life Night your chose of dates
• 3 Service projects- Mind Body Spirit, Tea
  Dance, Harvesters or St. Vincents or St. Mary/s
  Food Kitchen.
• 2 Retreats
• 1 Off-campus retreat
• 1 Confirmation On-campus retreat
• (Steubenville or NCYC, ect)

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St. Therese Youth Ministry

• Communication Link
• www.styouth.nexo.com
• Sign up its free.
• Resources
• www.lifeteen.com

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Registration

• Registration Materials
• Informational form
• Baptismal Certificate
• (indicate if on file)
• If not copy is needed.
• Candidate reflection form
• Sponsor form
• Sacrament fee
• Resource journal
• Bible
• On-campus retreats
• (materials speakers)
• Confirmation certificates for
• confirmand sponsors.

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Confirmation Sessions

• Session 1 Aug 30, Sept., 13, 20, 27
• Session 2 October 6, 13, 20, 27
• Session 3 Nov. 8, 15, 29 Dec. 6.

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Service Projects

• September-
• Body Mind Spirit-September 7th
• English Landing Park please pick up information
  packet.
• Give it way now! Feast Day of Saint Vincent de
  Paul, Collect money to feed the hungery. Every
  Dollar Provides food for 5 meals
• October -
• St. Mary Food Pantry 3rd Sunday, Harvesters,
  2nd Saturday, St. Vincent Mon-Fri, Christmas
  in October-contact Kris Knight
• November-
• Tea Dance with Wexford Place-November 1st
• St. Therese Great Commons
• NCYC November 19-21
• Sprint Center

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Sacrament of Confirmation

• Sunday
• January 24, 2010
• 300 p.m.
• Saint Therese