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December 2007
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Youth
In Conversation With God: Empowering Teens to Pray. Effective and grace-full
prayer and worship with youth can awaken and nurture a deeper spirituality and
prepare them for "full, conscious and active" participation in the sacramental
life of the faith community. Join us January 25-26 (7pm Friday to 5pm
Saturday) for an overnight seminar that provides sound principles of prayer,
rooted in the Catholic tradition, equipping adults with creative approaches that
engage young people in a variety of personal prayer forms and corporate worship.
For more information and to register, check out our website at
www.catholiccincinnati.org/youthmin and click on the Youth In
Conversation With God link in the center of the page.
Will
Our Children Have Faith?
You are probably already aware of the
National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR), a groundbreaking report
on the state of teenage faith and spirituality in the U.S. Now you can invite
someone from our professional OYYAM staff to your parish or school to give a
dynamic presentation about the NSYR and discuss its implications for parents and
parish ministry. The presentation can be tailored for various groups: parents,
parish staffs, high school faculties, deanery or pastoral region meetings, etc.,
and has been especially effective in parent meetings accompanying sacramental
preparation. Call your local OYYAM and we would be happy to arrange a
presentation for you. (Cincinnati: 513-421-3131 x335 or Dayton:
937-223-1001.)
Can't make it to Sydney, Australia for World Youth Day 2008? For those who would like to join in the
celebration, for significantly less time and money, the dioceses of Ohio and
Michigan are planning a terrific event! On the very same weekend as our friends who have journeyed to Australia,
July
19-20, 2008, we will host an event in Sidney, OH on the grounds of Lehman High
School. The event is complete with the experience of sleeping outside under the
stars, great music by
Who Do You Say I Am , great speakers (including
Mike Patin) and terrific prayer times. We will
continue to keep you
posted with more information as the details progress on our website (www.catholiccincinnati.org/youthmin/
and click on the center link), but mark
your calendars now to join youth from all of Ohio and Michigan at this
special event!
Basic
Training Level II: Take your volunteers to the next level and let us do it for
you!
The second level of our Volunteer Basic Training Series will be offered again
beginning the week of January 7. Workshops on Evangelizing teens, Engaging
Youth in Prayer, and Service will each be offered 7:00-9:30pm in three different locations in
Cincinnati, Dayton and the Northern area of the archdiocese. To find the
dates and locations that work best for you or your youth ministry team, go to
our website at
www.catholiccincinnati.org/youthmin and click on the Basic Training link in
the center of the page, then click on the right hand link "Current Schedule". 
Friends of Catholic Social Action: Save the Date! World Day of Peace Mass: January 1, 2008. Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk
will celebrate a World Day of Peace Mass on January 1 at 11am at St. Peter in
Chains Cathedral. As we approach the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War and
continue to respond to incidences of violence both globally and in our
communities, we hope you will join us around the Eucharistic table to pray for
resurrection, healing and peace. Please mark your calendars. 
Jesuit
Spiritual Center Youth Ministry Peer Ministry Training: Bring your high
school youth ministry group, peer ministry team or anyone interested in
leadership and youth ministry to the JSC Peer Ministry Training on December 5
from 7:00-9:00 pm. At this workshop you will: +Learn to develop and grow as a team/community;
+Be inspired to serve others, and
+Gain practical peer ministry skills.
For additional information contact Angie and Steve Poat at poat@jesuitspiritualcenter.com, (513) 248-3500 x11, or Maria Meyer, St. Columban Youth Minister at mmeyer@stcolumban.org, (513) 683-0105.
Want
to give your teens a retreat but don't have time to plan it? The Youth
Ministry team at the Jesuit Spiritual Center will provide an excellent retreat
for you on
January 26-28, 2008. All you do is bring your group (and you can
choose to participate as a small group leader). It is a great opportunity for
parishes with smaller groups to connect with other teens and experience the love
of God through prayer, music, witnessing and small group sharing. For more
information, contact the Stephen and Angie Poat at (513) 248-3500 x11 or go to
www.jesuitspiritualcenter.com
or look us up on Facebook, or contact Karen Sweet from St. Ann's Parish at
(513) 741-3005. 
Public
School Kairos Retreat! Attention Youth Ministers! If you have someone who would be interested in going on a public school Kairos
Retreat, St. Thomas More Parish in Cincinnati is organizing one at the Marydale
Retreat Center. The retreat will take place December 27, 28 and 29 and
there are still some empty spots available (10 at the time of this publication).
For more information and to obtain permission forms for your kids, please contact
Diane Brennan, youth minister at St. Thomas More Parish, as soon as possible at
(513) 753-2551.
CRS
Food Fast. Looking for a great
Lenten (or any time!) activity you can do with your teens that is educational, spiritual, interactive,
fun, doesn't cost much money, and raises money for the poor? Try a 24-Hour Food Fast.
The 2007-2008 Coordinator's Manual is filled with activities and prayers that
look at the impact of fair trade and water/sanitation issues on world hunger and
poverty. The Cd-ROM includes presentations, reflections and additional
customizable activities. Visit
www.foodfast.org to order your FREE materials. You
have
probably heard bout the Vatican's new "10
Commandments for Drivers", issued last June. You can also download the actual 36-page document,
"Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road" at
www.cdeducation.org/oym/connections/roadguidelines.pdf. Since it contains
information on the moral aspects of driving as well as exploring the images of
the "road" in Sacred Scripture and even teaching on the Church's commitment to
social justice for others found on the "street", it can be an excellent resource
for use with your teens. We also encourage you to visit a website by the City of
Kent, Washington. This site uses the Vatican's commandments, adding a short
comment after each with a link to statistics or other relevant information.
Check it out at
www.ci.kent.wa.us/police/traffic/TenCommandmentsforDrivers.asp. 
Tired of raising a lot of money for
your summer mission trip? Try one close to home! The Franciscans for the
Poor offers week-long mission trips in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.
Alternative spring breaks, summer mission trips and fall breaks for 2008 are now
being scheduled. Participants live in community at Tau House (formerly St.
Clement's Convent in St. Bernard) and are offered an array of volunteer
experiences and the chance to expand their faith through prayer and service.
Weekend mission trips are also offered on a limited basis for younger students.
For more information, contact Chris Lemmon, Program Director at Franciscans for
the Poor at 513-761-9040 ext. 110 or e-mail
DirectorFranForThePoor@fuse.net
or check out their new website at
www.FranForThePoor.org. 
Help Elder High School Bring
Jason Evert to Cincinnati:
After a four year hiatus, Elder High School is interested in hosting renowned
chastity speaker Jason Evert from Catholic Answers and EWTN. He will not
travel from California, however, unless he has three events scheduled in the
same area. His cost is $1150 per speaking engagement plus travel expenses
(flight, hotel, per diem). If you are interested in his wife (Chrystalina)
speaking as well they are $1800 per engagement. They are both excellent speakers
and can speak to boys or girls or both. The travel expenses could be shared
between three or more schools or parishes. If you are interested in
collaborating with Elder to bring Jason Evert to our area, please contact Mike
Trimpe at trimpegolf@hotmail.com.
You may find more information about Jason Evert at this websites: www.catholic.com/seminars/evert.asp , www.pureloveclub.com/purelove/index.php?id=46 , and
www.ewtn.com/series/2007/pure_life.htm
Send a
thank you card to a soldier this Christmas Season. Check out something Xerox is doing.
If you go to this web site, www.LetsSayThanks.com,
you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to
a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq . You cannot pick out who gets it,
but it will go to some member of the armed services. It is FREE and it only
takes a few moments of your time
Do this with your youth and help make someone's time away from home a little less lonely this Christmas season.
NCYC
2007 is over, but the music lives on! Whether you participated in this
incredible, spirit-filled conference or just wish you did, you can still get a
copy of the music. The theme song, Discover the Way, written by Nick
Cardilino (a local campus ministry leader at the University of Dayton),
is in the top 10 of Christian Rock songs on
soundclick.com (and you can go to that site to vote for his music and move
it further up the charts). You can purchase his new CD, Discover the Way
(featuring both the rock and the ballad versions of Discover the Way) on
his website at www.nickcardilino.com.
Not sure if you like the song? Check out some of the performances on YouTube at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPSz6fq0i2Y,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGG5ZiC-HZ4 , and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnkeLhig5G4. 
The
movie Bella comes to Cincinnati and Dayton Theaters. The movie Bella
is now showing in theatres throughout the area, including the Regal
(Beavercreek), Springdale 18 (Cincinnati) and Newport on the Levee (Kentucky).
Bella is the movie that has taken the world by surprise with its beauty and
positive endorsement of Life. It is a true love story that shows how one day in
New York City changed three people's lives forever--surprise winner of the
Toronto Film Festival; shown at the White House; taking the public by storm.
The movie stars Eduardo Verastegui, an international star in Latin America who
gave up this fame to focus on making movies that advance values and ethics.
The actors and producers have formed Metanoia production company to impact the
culture. "Metanoia" means to change one's mind, to repent, a transformative
change of heart, especially a spiritual conversion.
For more information on times and additional local theaters, check
the Bella movie web site at
www.bellathemovie.com.
Festival
of Praise! Come to St. Jude Parish on Bridgetown Rd. in Cincinnati on
Saturday March 15 at 7:30 pm for an evening of prayer, AMAZING praise and worship, and
exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. There will also be opportunity for
Confession and optional times to receive prayers from prayer teams. The Festival
of Praise closes with a social opportunity for people to get together and chat,
or even talk informally with priests if people want to ask questions. No registration! No cost! Just show up!
Geared toward young adults, but all ages welcome. Go to
www.eucharisticfop.com/ for more
information. Help us update our records!
E-mails and addresses change quickly this day and age, and sometimes it is
difficult for us to keep up. Please go to our website at
www.catholiccincinnati.org/youthmin and click on the mailing list update
link on the bottom of the page. Please fill it out, hit
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ABOUT THE E-News: The Youth Ministry E-News is a periodic on-line publication of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry. The Office of Youth & Young Adult Ministry frequently forwards information about church-related youth ministry events and opportunities as a service to the youth ministry leaders of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Forwarding information does not imply Archdiocesan endorsement, sponsorship or approval. For more details about youth ministry opportunities offered specifically by our office, check out our website at www.catholiccincinnati.org/youthmin.
Peace,
Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry
E-mail:
cintioym@catholiccincinnati.org