A note for High School and Middle School Parents: The Inside/Out Retreat is this Saturday, 10/4, starting at 12:00PM until 5:30PM. The retreat is themed around how God looks into our heart from the inside out and how we shouldn’t base our worth or others on their outside appearance alone. We will have closing Mass in Cortona Hall with Fr. Dave. Please respond ASAP if your child will be participating. The registration deadline is tomorrow, Wednesday, 10/1. If we don’t have enough participants by then we will have to cancel the retreat.
Here’s what the sessions were about on Sunday. These will also be posted online on the Parents Only Blog portion of the ministry website.
EDGE Today we talked about grace and how it is a free gift of God that is given to us to help us throughout our lives and to bring us into a deeper union with Him. We also discussed how graces are given to us through the Sacraments and how each Sacrament has graces to help us in each stage of our lives, with the Eucharist being the summit. Here are some questions to ask your youth:
What is grace?
How do we receive grace?
Why are the Sacraments so important?
EPIC The lesson challenged the students to think about choices they make in their daily lives at home, at school, and at play based upon the Gospel reading from Matthew 21. We are all human and God always loves us. God takes great joy in seeing us make loving choices when we interact with our family, neighbors, friends, classmates and teachers. Grades K-1 reviews at the beginning of class the sign of the cross and end class with the Lord’s prayer.
Next Session: 10/5, 9:50AM-10:55AM
Please follow same drop off and pick-up procedure. Thank you!
Upcoming Middle School and High School Ministry Events
10/4/14– Inside/Out for MS & HS students 12:00PM-5:30PM– Please RSVP by Wednesday, October 1st. Registration form is online.
11/8/14– CHOSEN: Called To Be More , a MS (6-8) Youth Rally at Good Shepherd 5:00PM-9:30PM. Parents invited to a concurrent session during event. $10 for youth and $5 for parents. Interested, please let me know.