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1. Encounter Engage Embrace Evangelize Infusing Catholic Identity in One’s DNA Orchestrated by Leland Nagel NCCL Executive Director LNagel@NCCL.org Powerpoint Templates

2. Bearing in the LightRejoicing in the Light

3. So What If . . .Mattie Stepanek, February 1998 What if the world fills up with so many people that the earth can’t hold us all? Is that a reason for war? No. Is that a reason not to love unborn babies? No. Is that a reason to let sick people die? No. It is a reason we need to make extra room, first in our hearts and then into our world It is a reason to make room for prayer because God is the only “I AM.” Who can answer such a “What If?”

4. Happy moments, praise God. Difficult moments, seek God. Quiet moments, worship God. Painful moments, trust God. Every moment, thank God. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

5. P R A Y National Directory for Catechesis, Chapter 5, Liturgical Catechesis Emphasizes various prayer forms • Communal • Private • Traditional • Spontaneous • Gesture • Song • Meditation • Contemplation

6. The six principle tasks of catechesis Knowledge of the Faith Participation in liturgical and sacramental life Moral Formation Learning to Pray Preparation and participation in faith community Developing a missionary spirit Context and MeaningNDC: Chapter 2 Evangelization

7. Eight Components ofYouth Ministry • Community Life/Social • Justice & Service • Evangelization • Leadership Development • Pastoral Care • Prayer & Worship • Advocacy • Education/ Catechesis

8. COMMUNITY LIFEEvangelization Community Life is present in all other components of Youth Ministry. Anytime the youth gather they experience Community Life. Furthermore on some level the other components are present at any purely social/community outing, activity, or event. Evangelization-All components must proclaim their faith.

9. An American Baptist and world-renowned senior theologian, Langdon Gilkey, identified the Protestant understanding of Catholicism's distinguishing characteristics. In Catholicism Confronts Modernity, page 23, he summarizes these as: • The people as community • The reality of tradition • The grace of caritas • The sacramental sense of the living presence of God • The rationality of the traditional faith

10. Thomas Groome in EDUCATING FOR LIFE, A Spiritual Vision for Every Teacher and Parent, page 59-60, elaborates and updates the five suggested in Gilkey's schema and adds three of his own. • Positive anthropology • Its conviction about the sacramentality of life • Its relationship on relationship and community • Its commitment to history and tradition • Catholicism's appreciation of a wisdom rationality • Spirituality - On seeking "holiness" of life • Working for justice and the social values of God's reign • Catholicity itself - Being open to truth wherever it can be found

11. To create conditions for learning, the following must exist • LEARNRS SAFETY • Absence of threat • CONNECTION • Connection with others whom they will trust • EXPRESSION • Opportunity to express oneself • ACTIVATION • Acticvate prior relevant learning

12. RITUAL and NOVELTYA B a l a n c e • Rituals ensure a high level of predictability, but they can become boring. • If there is simply new stimulus or novelty, it becomes chaotic • It is necessary to have both of them for a balanced environment.

13. ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT • PHYSICAL ACTIVITY • TIME TO DISCUSS OPTIONS Have people go for a walk with a partner and in that time answer three questions • What are you grateful for? • What are the highs and lows you have experienced today? • What do you want to get out of our time together?

14. CATHOLIC ANTHROPOLOGY • How the Catholic perspective shapes: • Our way of life • Our way of relating to self • Our way of relating to others • Our way of relating to the world • Our entire modus operandi as • human beings (persons)

15. How do you look at the world? What’s your story of life From beginning to end?

16. The first story begins like this: Once upon a time, a very long time ago, there was a series of accidents. Energy and matter and molecules collided and somehow you are here today. Here by coincidence. Here by chance. The second story starts this way: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And you are here today, not by accident, but because he designed you, and loves you and wants to have a relationship with you. Here are two storiesWhich one do you prefer?

17. The first story continues: The fit live. The weak die. So kill or be killed. Survival is the name of the game. Look out for number one. And here’s how the second story goes: Blessed are the meek. Blessed are the poor. Blessed are the peacemakers. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. Here are two storiesWhich one do you prefer?

18. The first story finishes like this: You die. The end. And the second story? Actually the second story has no end at all: “For Jesus said, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.’” Here are two storiesWhich one do you prefer?

19. Here are two storiesTwo stories to explain the world • No one can prove which one is true. • No scientist, no philosopher, no politician, no theologian, no priest. • It is up to you to choose. • So here are two stories. • Which one do you prefer? • Telling the Bible, Bob Hartman

20. Catholic Anthropolgy • GOD IS the • Beginning & End of human existence • With what kind of eyes do you look out upon the world? • Elohist • Yahwist

21. Does God Have a Big Toe?: Stories About Stories in the Bible Authors: Rabbi Marc Gellman, Oscar De Mejo (Illustrator) Creation Stories - Elohist

22. Ethiopian Tattoo Shop Author: Father Edward Hays Creation stories - Yahwist

23. What story do you like best?TODAY – Right Now! • What story best describes your view of life and the way you approach every day with God? • Which story symbolizes your view of God the Creator? • Which story would you choose to tell and why? • Sharing one’s faith is catechesis

24. The Creation: The Story of How God Created the WorldAuthors: Sheila Cassidy, Emma Hunk (Illustrator)

25. Telling the Stories of Scripture • STORIE S CREATING COMMUNITY – People feel a part of God’s family by knowing how the church began or what happened when Jesus was born. • STORIES REINFORCING VALUES– Stories teach what is essential and the roots of decisions. • STORIES ALLOWING MEANINGFUL FAITH CONCLUSIONS – Faith in a story outlasts logical arguments, it inspires belief.

26. Disciples Called to WitnessPart III Jesus Christ offers us new hope through a New Evangelization. Through the re-proposing of the Gospel, the Church seeks to comfort all those who are burdened by offering faith, hope, love, and the gift of new life in Christ.

27. Believe in the True God Reverence God’s Name Love the Lord’s Day Strengthen Your Family Promote the Culture of Life Marital Fidelity Do Not Steal – Act Justly Tell the Truth Practice Purity of Heart Embrace Poverty of Spirit Re-propose:Decalogue – 10 CommandmentsCatholic Catechism for Adults

28. Supper of the Lamb

29. Everyone is welcome here. is welcome here

30. All are Welcome here.

31. All are welcome

32. Everyone is Offered a Place at the table

33. We brought burgers to the park and church broke out. Burgers, hot dogs, pickles, potato chips and brownies. There were no bricks, no stained glass and no pews with kneelers. There would be no scripture readings, but there was plenty of scriptural action: no Mass, but an active Eucharist. Where is the Source of Hope?Who is the Source of Hope

34. HISTORY AND TRADITIONWisdom Rationality

35. T R I N I T YWhat do we call Y-O-U • Tale of a Bishop’s Encounter • Names of GOD – your turn • Names you know/use for God or one of the persons in God • Descriptive words/phrases associated with… • We receive names from relationships • In Hebrew culture, “To be nameless is to be worthless.”

36. Names for God In God’s Name • Author: Sandy Eisenberg Sassso Phoebe Stone (Illustrator)

37. Defining Beauty Danielle Rose God Is

38. You want to know me? You want to see my face? I do not age with time; I do not fit into a space I transcend the capacity of your eye, so who am I? GOD IS

39. It is the question of the moment; It is the question for all time I am you and you are mine I am the beginning in the end I am the faith in your believing I am the color of truth I am the dreamer of your dreams I am the falling in your love I am the words of a prayer I am the silence in the music I am the music in the silence GOD IS

40. I am your father; I am your mother I am the man who cannot cry I am the story in your eyes I am the orphan of war I am the leper begging on the corner I am the black slave in chains I am the Muslim bride who cannot show her face I’m the cross you carry again GOD IS

41. I am the beginning in the end I am the faith in your believing I am the color of truth I am the dreamer of your dreams I am the falling in your love I am the words of a prayer I am the silence in the music I am the music in the silence God Is

42. I’m all you have forgotten I am all that you have not been I am in you – all that is within you Let the journey begin. Amen I am in you, Amen. GOD IS

43. I am the beginning in the end I am the faith in your believing I am the color of truth I am the dreamer of your dreams I am the falling in your love I am the words of a prayer I am the silence in the music I am the music in the silence God Is

44. CAIN and ABEL CAIN & ABEL: Finding the Fruits of Peace Author Sandy Eisenberg Sasso Illustrated by Joani Keller Rothenberg

45. Cain and Abel – TodayA Boy in a Bed in the Dark Born with a cleft palate,My two-year-old brother,Recovering from yet another surgery,Toddled into our bedroomToppled a tower of blocksThat I had patiently builtAnd in a five-year-old's furyI grabbed a fallen blockAnd winged it at himRipping open his carefully reconstructed lip.

46. Cain and Abel – TodayA Boy in a Bed in the Dark The next hours were gruesomely compressedEnding with a boy in a bed in the darkMute with fearStaring out into the hallway with horrorAs the pediatrician went in and out of the bathroomWith one vast blood-soaked towel after anotherShaking his head worriedly.

47. "A Boy in a Bed in the Dark" by Brad Sachs, from In the Desperate Kingdom of Love: Poems 2001-2004. My brother's howlsAnd my parents' cooed comfortBecame the soundtrack to this milky movieThat playsIn my darkest theatre,The one that I sidle past each nightWith a shudderAnd a throb in my fist.

48. If the Witch knew the true meaning of sacrifice, she might have interpreted the deep magic differently. That when a willing victim who has committed no treachery, is killed in a traitor's stead, the stone table will crack, and even death itself would turn backwards. Belief in the Resurrection

49. P A S S I N G • Spiritual Cinema Circle • 2009 • Volume I

50. T I P S a n d T O O L S • Youth do not care how much you know until they know how much you care. • The relationship you develop with your students will be the single most important thing you do to encourage learning. • The most important clues you get from your students are non-verbal: