Here is a lovely promo video of the National Catholic Youth Choir. Calling all Catholic high-schoolers going into grades 10, 11, and 12 to apply. Camp next summer is June 14 – 28.
Archive for category Youth
Praying for Gay Youth
Nov 14
This past Wednesday in our seminary chapel, gay youth were prayed for, holding up their dignity as cherished by God and worthy of love, care and protection from abusive language and action.
I would like to direct your attention to the National Catholic Youth Choir web site. This program for Catholic high school students is unparalleled in the nation. I have seen and heard it with my own eyes and ears!
Becoming present to God in the liturgical action, participating fully and willingly in God’s trinitarian act of salvation for us, is the ideal of liturgy. This willing participation, though, is a skill as well as a choice. Coping with distraction is one of the components of this skill.
Let us not forget that children are natural mystics. Developmentally, children experience a profound sense of identity in and through ritual.
If you’re in the area…
Aug 29
some of these presentations might interest you. I see that one is about the new Missal translation.
Christian Smith and Melinda Denton, investigators for the National Study of Youth and Religion, see an alternative faith in American teenagers, one that “feeds on and gradually co-opts if not devours” established religious traditions: Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.
Camino to Compostela
Jul 28
La Cigüeña de la Torre reports that 2,200 young people from Madrid have set out by foot on the pilgrimage path to the shrine of St. James in Compostela.
Archbishop Augustine Di Noia, OP, Secretary of the Holy See’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, has some highly interesting comments on young Catholics in today’s culture.
An annual highlight of the National Catholic Youth Choir is Candlelight Adoration and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament in the Abbey Church to conclude the observance of Sunday, the Lord’s Day.