Bored at Mass? Here’s 8 tips for you…
I once heard of a survey of teenagers which asked them what word they most associated with the Mass. Now, I may not be a smart man, but it’s a…
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Is it HARD to get to Heaven?
On the night our parish youth group kicked off a semester of youth ministry programming on the Church, our guest speaker took questions from teens. One of them went like…
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Waterfights & Sinning
With a background in youth ministry – that includes several summers at camp – I’ve got a fair bit of experience with waterfights. Normally, I start with quick attacks, intending…
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Man up!
As a certifiable Trekkie (I have attended three Star Trek conventions and once forced my wife to make a stop in Vulcan, AB, so I could check out the Star…
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Life at Sea: What Christians can Learn from Sailors
I have a deep love for the ocean. Although I was born a few miles from it, we moved to Alberta before I was a year old, so I remember…
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“Hating the Sin” (but never a person!)
At the end of confession, the priest usually invites me to pray an act of contrition – a prayer saying that I’m sorry for my sins. This is the prayer…
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Christian Marriage
I remember being given a flyer by my youth minister which began by saying “everyone longs to give themselves completely to someone…” – on this side of Heaven, one of…
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Why do good people suffer?
In the nearly 13 years I have been serving in youth ministry, one of my most vivid experiences is one I never expected to have at all. I was a…
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The Last Four Things
Let’s get the bad news out of the way right off the bat: we’re all going to die. While we may not think about it very often, death is inevitable….
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Against Varnish
At Catholicymblog.com, one of my favorite websites, D. Scott Miller posted a fantastic quote a couple years ago discouraging youth ministers from sharing a “Christian varnish” with our youth. (The…