Wednesday, December 22, 2010

St. Basil Life Teen Parent News -- December 2010 Edition

1. Life Teen in the past month

  • We had an XLT Eucharistic Praise and Worship Service.
  • We had a Life Night on Homosexuality. ALL people are made in God's image, and ALL people are called to holiness.
  • We had a life night on the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • We had a life night on the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
  • We had the Oratory every Wednesday night. The Oratory is our weekly discussion group of all things important and awesome.
2. Life Teen in the next month
  • No life night on Dec. 26th.
  • Life Nights resume on Jan. 2nd with a New Year's Social.
  • Jan. 9 - Life Night prayer service for vocations with the rest of the parish.
  • Jan. 16 - LN on Universal & Unique calls to holiness
  • Jan. 23 - LN on the vocation to Priesthood
  • Jan. 30 - LN on the vocation to Consecrated Life

3. A few victories for God - God is winning, one victory at a time.

A dozen of our teenage girls had a stocking stuffing party to give much-needed items for women at Maggie’s Place, a Cleveland house of hospitality for expectant mothers who are alone or living on the streets. Hundreds of dollars worth of donated items went to needy mothers for Christmas.


4. Parent websites of the month -

Here's what your teenager is watching on YouTube. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/top-youtube-videos-2010/story?id=12379343&tqkw=&tqshow=GMA&tqkw=&tqshow=GMA
Report on Media Sexualization of Teen Girls: http://www.parentstv.org/FemaleSexualization/Study/Sexualized_Teen_Girls.pdf
Being Catholic is awesome. Click on and watch the "Epic Commercial".
www.catholicscomehome.org


5. Please support our teens with prayer and through the monthly Life Teen envelope. Our ministry of leading teens closer to Christ can't be accomplished without your help and generosity!