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Forming Teens Into Evangelical Catholics

Published May 4, 2016 • Written by Cristóbal Almanza Filed Under: Faith, Youth

Youth ministry is a unique challenge for the Church, and by challenge, I mean opportunity. A decade ago, I started to dabble in youth ministry, but I have spent the last 7 years working with great people in the Church to develop a program that can form young Evangelical Catholics. An understandably lofty goal, but one… [Read More]

Written by Cristóbal Almanza • Published May 4, 2016

Lessons I Have Learned Serving in Youth Ministry

Published September 23, 2015 • Written by Cristóbal Almanza Filed Under: Faith, Youth

Fall is an active time around most of our parishes, and it’s a time full of incredible hope for another year of catechetics. I’ve been blessed with almost a decade of working in youth ministry and witnessing the incredible ways that the Lord can work in the lives of high school teens.  As many lives… [Read More]

Written by Cristóbal Almanza • Published September 23, 2015

Be Not Afraid: The Story of a Catechist Who Almost Quit

Published August 15, 2013 • Written by Julia Motekaitis Filed Under: Faith, Family

My first time teaching religious education was as a 22 year old, living at home with my parents after college, working in my first (miserable) full-time job and trying to plan a wedding remotely with no friends within a 45 mile radius. I was looking forward to a bright spot in my week of sharing… [Read More]

Written by Julia Motekaitis • Published August 15, 2013

Who is she to you? Mary as Educator of the Masculine & Feminine Soul

Published October 25, 2012 • Written by Rachel Filed Under: Blog

Who is she to you? Who is Mary to you? How do you relate to her? Perhaps the first relationship that popped into your head was Mother. But have you ever considered her a Teacher? What about as someone who can teach us about gender? About growing up as a teenage boy or girl? About… [Read More]

Written by Rachel • Published October 25, 2012

A Proposal to the Youth (Review: “YOUCAT, the Youth Catechism”)

Published October 16, 2012 • Written by Lindsay Wilcox Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Family, Reviews, Young Adult, Youth

I’m a little late in the game, but I’m also right on time for the Year of Faith: I finally took a deeper look into the YOUCAT*. Released to coincide with the last World Youth Day (WYD) and distributed to all official pilgrims, the YOUCAT was written to transmit content based from the Catechism of… [Read More]

Written by Lindsay Wilcox • Published October 16, 2012

Tech and Catechetics

Published September 28, 2012 • Written by Cristóbal Almanza Filed Under: Faith

Our youth live in a world of extreme media consumption. Many of us today are never phased by the amount of time we spend staring at a screen or the amount of screens we have in front of us any given time of the day. It is unmistakable that our American culture is over-saturated with… [Read More]

Written by Cristóbal Almanza • Published September 28, 2012

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