The Four Life-Giving Gifts of YOUCAT
A catechist reflects on the value of the youth catechism
BY KIMBERLY BRUCE
The youth catechism of the Catholic Church, commonly known as YOUCAT, is...
5 Rules for Life: Chris Stefanik from SEEK 2019 on finding and knowing joy
Chris Stefanik on joy and how you know Christian joy. Chris discusses how to kick self-loathing and begin to think with the mind of...
Eight Tips to Promote Teens’ Faith
Discovering Catholicism's Greatness
Becky Groth
Sometimes our beautiful Catholic faith can be rather heady or hard to grasp. How do we encourage teens that being Catholic...
Three Ways to Help Teens Know Mary
BY BECKY GROTH
We’re sure to encounter a variety of attitudes that young people hold toward Mary, the Blessed Mother. In my youth ministry experience,...
7 Tips for Teens (and Everyone Else) to Get the Most Out of Mass
Helping others experience heaven on earth
ERIC GROTH
If we really understood the Mass, we would die of joy.”
I love this. St. John Vianney nailed it.
He...
Let Lent Be Your “I Spy” Season
BY ERIC GROTH
Have you ever read an I Spy book? Perhaps I Spy Treasure Hunt, I Spy Animals, or for those who like to...
Discussing the Transcendentals
Discerning desires that point to God
BECKY GROTH
“Thou has made us for Thyself and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.” — ST....
Using Digital Media in Ministry
ERIC GROTH
Nothing in history has so rapidly revolutionized the way we communicate as social media. Today's online world is a quite sobering social reality,...
3 Ways Grandparents and Youth Ministry Go Together
BY ERIC GROTH
My paternal grandmother — God rest her soul — was really Catholic, the matriarch of faith in our family. Maybe you can...
Using Music to Prayerfully Lead Youth to Christ
Mix Up Your Use of Musical Genres
KATE DANELUK
One of the first things we teach young people about prayer is that it is communication with...
