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Session 6: Does My Body Matter? God created each person in his image and likeness. Everyone has unique gifts and strengths given by God out of love for us. |
Session 5: What Does it Mean to Be Human? Have you ever wonder what separates human beings from all of the rest of God's creation? It's what this session called our "Key Component", our immortal soul! |
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Session 4: Why Am I Here? Have you ever wondered why you exist? We have, too! God created us out of love for us, so that we could know Him, love Him, and serve him. |
Retreat: Awake, O Sleeper Have you ever wondered about how people "hear" the voice of God? This retreat looked at some of the examples in Scripture of people who heard God and we talked about how those things can translate to our lives. |
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Session 2: Does God Exist? This week we talked about the age-old question "Does God Exist?" We talked about the ways that science, reasoning, logic, and philosophy can help us to know that He does. |
Session 1: Big Questions Description: Ever had any questions about God and the Church? Us too! This year at EDGE we'll be taking a look at some of those "big questions" and providing a foundation to help our youth work out the answers throughout their lives. |
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Running Backwards
Description:The Sacrament of Reconciliation is one of the greatest gifts we are given by the Lord. It can sometimes feel a little scary, but this Sacrament is meant to restore us to grace and reconcile us to God and to the church. |
Session 14
Description: The seventh commandments teaches us not to steal, but it teaches us more than that. It teaches us what's really important, how to share with others and how to put possessions in their proper place. |
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Session 13 Description: The tenth commandment tells us "Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's possessions." This Commandments helps us to keep our relationships right with one another and helps us to put God first in our lives. |
Session 12
Summary: The Ten Commandments are summarized in Jesus' (and Moses') words to "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength and to love your neighbor as yourself." Commandments 1-5 (which we studied last year) teach us how to love God, while Commandments 6-10 (which we will be studying over the course of the next several sessions) teach us how to love our neighbor. |
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Family Night:
A few weeks ago, we learned about the Communion of Saints at Edge. This week, at family night, we learned about a few members of the Church Triumphant: St. Augustine and his mother St. Monica. St. Augustine searched for meaning in his life everywhere except in God and St. Monica prayed constantly for him and for his conversion. He is a Saint who undeniably understands our struggles against temptation and a great Saint to ask for his intercession on our own faith journeys. |
Session 8: We are all called to holiness. God gives us our vocations as a way to help achieve the universal call of holiness and as a way to lead us to heaven and to himself. Some vocations are the Priesthood, Consecrated Religious Life, and Marriage; each of these has their own gifts and charisms. |
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Session 7: Just like sports players and actors/singers need a coach to help them perform to the best of their abilities, we need a coach (Jesus) to help encourage, motivate, and guide us, too. |
Session 6:
The Communion of Saints has three main parts. First, and most obvious, the Saints in heaven (the Church Triumphant); second, the church on earth(the Church Militant); and third, the church in purgatory (the Church Suffering). Although there are many, many people who make up the communion of Saints and we all have our own unique jobs, we are all one in Christ Jesus. |
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Session 5: We say we believe that our church is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic every single time we come to Mass and pray the Nicene Creed but what do those four words actually mean? How do they change the way we perceive the church, the way we worship? And perhaps most importantly how do those words change the way we perceive ourselves? |
Retreat:
From the beginning of creation, God has created human beings out of love for one purpose: to love God and one another. Throughout salvation history, we can trace the ways that God has tried to call His people back to himself and the subsequent ways that humanity has rejected Him and broken our covenants with Him.Thus, God sent His only son, Jesus, to live among us and to be the everlasting covenant connecting us to God forever. |
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Session 3:
God has had a plan for the Church since before the Church came to be. He named Simon Peter the first pope, the rock upon which he would build his church, and we can trace this apostolic succession from generation to generation, all the way to pope Francis today. But what about everyone else? Most of us will not grow up to be pope or even become priests, so what is our role to play in the church? This video explains more about the Apostolic Succession and talks about our roles in the church as the laity. |
Session 2:
The Holy Spirit has accompanied God's people throughout all of history. Jesus gave the gift of the Holy Spirit to the Disciples on Pentecost and that gift is passed to us today through the sacrament of Baptism and strengthened in the sacrament of Confirmation. The gift of the Holy Spirit enables us, like the disciples, to go out into the world and fulfill God's plan for us and for the world. |
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Session 1: While the Holy Spirit is often thought of symbolically (as Fire in Confirmation and the saints, as Water in Baptism, Oil in anointing, a Dove descending at Jesus' Baptism, or as Breath/Wind in the Prophets and at Pentecost) He is also a person, coequal with God the Father and Jesus the Son. |