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Contact Us
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Christine Dunncdunnstlaurence.orgDirector of Religious Education
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Documents
- 2019 / 2020 LIFE TEEN CALENDAR
- Victorious Love Life Teen Resources
- Victorious Love Parent Letter in English
- Victorious Love Parent Letter in Spanish
- Prayer for Anchored Series
- Professing Faith Life Night Resource
- Professing Faith Parent Letter in English
- Professing Faith Parent Letter in Spanish
- Holding to Hope Life Night Resource
- Holding to Hope Parent Letter in English
- Holding to Hope Parent Letter in Spanish
- Surrounded by Mercy Parent Letter in English
- Surrounded by Mercy Life Teen Resource
- Surrounded by Mercy Parent Letter in Spanish
- What Is Core Team?
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Links
- Resources for parents from Childmind.org for COVID-19 Crisis
- How Should Catholics Respond to the Coronavirus Pandemic? by Fr. Mike Schmitz
- Steubenville Lone Star
- High School Confirmation
- Home Study
- Edge (Middle School)
- Life Teen International
- The Whole Sex Talk from formed.org
- Center for Parent / Youth Understanding
- The Source 4 Parents
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Due to the Coronavirus Pandemic--all onsite programming has been suspended for the rest of the year. Parents/Legal Guardians will receive resources by email to continue passing on the faith at home beginning on March 15 and ending on April 26. See topics below.
We are excited to announce an OPTIONAL offering for our youth!
In response to the crisis Life Teen is offering a 4-week series titled Anchored. The third one is titled Victorious Love and will be available Sunday, April 12 at 4 pm Central (5 pm ET) at the YouTube link above.
Check out the documents section on the left for the following:
Victorious Love Parent Letter in English
Victorious Love Parent Letter in Spanish
Vicotious Love Life Night Resource
Prayer for Anchored Series
Welcome to our High School Life Teen program at St. Laurence!Life Teen is our main outreach to all 9th-12th grade students and our mission is simple: to lead teens closer to Christ. Through teaching, discipleship, prayer, social events, and service, we hope to build up the kingdom of God one teen at a time. The goals of our Life Teen program are:
- To empower young people to live as disciples of Jesus Christ in our world today,
- To draw young people to responsible participation in the life, mission, and work of the Catholic Church,
- To foster the total personal and spiritual growth of each young person.
We do this through a variety of different programs and forms of outreach, which can be found and explained by clicking here. For more information about our Life Teen program and how it works in conjunction with our Confirmation Preparation program with our High School Youth Minister.
A Theology of the Body This spring we will begin our series on Theology of the Body. St. John Paul II's Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body helps us rediscover the meaning of life and love. Throughout the semester we will see how the union of man and woman in marriage which is true, good and beautiful prefigures the union of Christ (the Bridegroom) and his Church (the Bride).
This six session Life Teen series is titled Life, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness and shows us that the divine plan for human love is an invitation to mutual self-giving. "(Humans) can fully discover (their) true selves only in a sincere giving of (themselves)." (Gaudium et Spes, 24)
Topics for the next few weeks are as follows:
Due to the Coronoavirus all onsite faith formation programs have been suspended for the rest of the program year (thourgh May 3rd). Parents will be receiving resources and discussion questions to continue passing on the faith at home until further notice.
March 15 Circle of Grace (sent by email to parents/legal guardians)
March 22 Death: The Fall/Original Sin – (sent by email to parents/legal guardians)
March 29 Hunger: Concupiscence, Lust, Spiritual Hunger – / Confirmation Night #6
April 5--No Life Night-Palm Sunday
Watch Optional Global Life Night-Professing Faith
April 12--No Life Night-Easter Sunday
Watch Optional Global Life Night-Victorious Love
April 19 Tech Savvy or Tech Safe? — Julie Borque
Watch Optional Global Life Night-Surrounded by Mercy
April 26 Love: Love as Self-Gift, Definition of Love —Jonathan Alexander / Confirmation #7
All youth and their families are invited and encouraged to join in the celebration of Mass with the video link to Mass at St. Laurence on the home page.
Additional resources have been emailed to families to help them to discuss the Sunday readings as a family. Or check out the links on the coronavirus information page under the column titled Keep the Faith - Helpful online resources during this time of crisis.
Below are some ideas for gifts for your youth to invite them to go deeper on their spiritual journey:
Steubenville Lone StarJune 19-21, 2020St. Laurence will be unable to attend Steubenville South in Alexandria, LA this year since the Confirmation Liturgies assigned by the ARCH-GH are on the same weekend (June 26-27). However, Fr. Drew has given his permission to try a new and similar Steubenville experience in Irving, TX called Steubenville Lone Star. Registration is now open. Mark your calendars and plan to join in on this adventure because you know everything is bigger and better in Texas.
Irving, TX
Camp CovecrestSt. Laurence High School Youth Ministry will return to Tiger, Georgia for Life Teen's Camp Covecrest. Space will be limited to 20 youth for this great week-long event so mark your calendars now.
August 3-8, 2020
Tiger, GA
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Life Teen Blog
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As we move through Holy Week in a way the Church never has before and might never again, I pray that our hope will rest in God alone. If we hope only in the goodness of situations or the favorable...
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The Lord went to the cross for this moment. He went to the cross so our pain and suffering didn’t have to be the end of the story. He went to the cross so He could be united with us, on Earth and in...
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Instead of recognizing my own beauty through the similarities I shared with my mother and sisters, I focused on the differences I had with other girls my age. I considered my differences from them as...
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