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LIFE TEEN |
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Come celebrate your
faith through relevant preaching and awesome music that will bring the Catholic
mass to life! |
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The LIFE TEEN Mission Statement |
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What is LIFE TEEN? |
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LIFE TEEN is a Catholic youth ministry program
that began in 1985 at St. Timothy's Catholic Church in Mesa, Arizona. Its
founder developed the program out of a need he saw for young people to feel
loved in the Catholic
LIFE TEEN 5:30 PM Mass began here at Sacred Heart
on 2-12-06. In the LIFE TEEN philosophy teens are recognized as a sub-culture;
the Mass and the entire program are designed to address the specific needs of
teens today. This vision of youth ministry allows the teen to immerse him or
herself in the life of the parish and on a larger scale, of the Church. LIFE
TEEN provides our teens with a "Catholic Identity". LIFE TEEN provides the youth with this “catholic Identity by: |
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The LIFE TEEN Liturgy |
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The LIFE TEEN Mass is the core of the program providing teens and their families with a liturgy geared toward their spiritual needs. The LIFE TEEN Liturgy requires a "full and active participation of the entire community". The Mass, homily and music are specifically directed to the teens. The teens take an active role in the ministries at the Mass specifically; Lectors, ushers, and music there are many elements of the liturgy that speak to teens on their emotional level found mostly in the unconditional love of Christ and of that same faith sharing in the community. |
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LIFE Nights: 9-12 Grade |
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LIFE Nights follow the LIFE TEEN Mass every Sunday night and provide an opportunity for teens to go deeper in their faith, share their faith with their peers through witness talks and interactive discussion and learn more about issues facing teens today and how to deal with them. These nights are presented by our Core team made up of adults from the parish under the direction and our Youth Minister, Maureen Boberg. Topics for these nights come from the Core team’s own ideas, ideas suggested by teens, and resources obtained from the National LIFE TEEN office. |
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Young Apostle Middle School Youth Ministry: 6-8 Grade |
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We invite the middle school youth to attend our Sunday night LIFE TEEN Mass with their families, and then come to the parish center on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month from 6-8Pm and join us for their own life nights. The Core provide an opportunity for youth to go deeper in their faith, share their faith with their peers through witness talks and interactive discussion and learn more about issues facing youth today and how to deal with them. These nights are presented by our Core team made up of adults from the parish under the direction and our Youth Minister, Maureen Boberg. Topics for these nights come from the team's own ideas, ideas suggested by the youth , and resources obtained from the National LIFE TEEN office. |
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Jr. Ministry Grades Companions for the Journey: 3-5 Grade |
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Sacred Heart Church is blessed to offer a youth ministry program for our young children. We invite them to join us on the 2nd and Wednesday of the month from 6:00-8:00pm for their youth ministry program. We will use the same monthly theme as the other groups, bringing the ministry to a level of their understanding. | |||||
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Sacred Heart Catholic Church • 7809 - 46th Way North, Pinellas Park, FL 33781
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727.541.4447 |
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Church.
There are now over 900 parishes around the world that have adopted the LIFE TEEN
program, which is geared towards high school teens in grades 9-12.