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Tag Archives: Lent
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Why This Holy Thursday Is Bigger!
I get the sense that this year Holy Thursday is even bigger for us Catholics. It's the year for priests. During his general audience held in St. Peter's Square yesterday the Holy Father explained to the gathered faithful and to all of us the meaning and beauty of the Easter Triduum.
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The Mix 1.03 – “My Lips Are Sealed”
To kick off the season of Lent, we present three reflections on the forty days before Easter. Fr. Jack Spaulding shares the meaning of Lenten sacrifices. Matt Smith guides a 2007 meditation on God and silence. Lisa Epperson closes the show with a Lenten homily from the 400s by St. John Chrysologus.
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The Drag and Gary Show: “Lent”
Our friends Drag and Gary meet up with Matt Maher, our favorite Canadian Catholic singer/songwriter, to talk about Lent. We learn about God's mercy, using our inside voices, and cheese pizza.
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Lent in Your Youth Ministry: Making the Most of the Season
Lent already? How is that possible? One minute we’re celebrating Christmas, we blink, and it is Ash Wednesday. Somewhere in the blur of time we forget to fully enter into this holy season. Often we get so caught up in the day- to-day operations of meetings, phone calls, emails and Life Night planning that we forget to take a second to stop and think about where the Church is leading us.
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A “What Not to Wear” Guide to Lent
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
Keywords: Ash Wednesday | Family | Lent | Sacrifice | Stations of the Cross
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 [...]
Spotlight Magazine
Spotlight Magazine, Volume 09: Behold the Mystery
Keywords: Ash Wednesday | Behold the Mystery | Lent | Manners | Missionary Program | Parish Spotlight | Spotlight Magazine | Spring Break | Valentine's Day
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
Keywords: Advent | Christmas | Lent | Liturgy Planning Guide | Ordinary Time
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 [...]
Edge Night
The Season of Lent
Keywords: Lent | Prayer | Sacrifice
Objective:
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 [...]
Liturgy Planning Guide
Full Liturgy Planning Guide: 11-30-2008 through 03-29-2009
Keywords: Advent | Christmas | Lent | Ordinary Time
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 [...]
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Desert Dwellers: Finding Life in Lent
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: [...]
Life Night
Deserted: A Life Night on Lent
Keywords: Desert | Lent | Preparation | Purification
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 [...]
Liturgy Planning Guide
Liturgy Planning Guide: 12-02-2007 through 03-23-2008
Keywords: Advent | Christmas | Easter | Lent | Ordinary Time
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. [...]
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Don’t Get Bent Over Lent
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 [...]
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It’s Good Friday – It’s Time To Ask This Question!