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Saint Ann Youth Ministry Weekly Newsletter April 26Th, 2020 Third Sunday of Easter Vol I, Issue XII Saint ann youth miniStry Weekly newsletter April 26th, 2020 Third Sunday of Easter Vol I, Issue XII Cover Page pg. 1 Youth Essays pg. 4 Saint Ann Weekly Newsletter The Ten Commandments (Part I) Classroom Sessions Cancelled Bryan Sosa Sunday Mass Readings pg. 2 Sebastian Juarez Acts 2:14,22-23 Abel Neri Psalm 16:1-2, 5, 7-11 Jocelyn Cecenas 1 Peter 1:17-21 Katheryn Godinez Luke 24:13-35 Articles pg. 7 Faith Formation pg. 3 The Duties of Parents (Part VIII of XI) Online Faith Formation Saint Louis De Montfort pg. 8 Youth Ministries pg. 3 Newsletter pg. 9 Youth Ministry Newsletter Content Contribution Contributor Saint Ann Weekly Newsletter Until Mass and Faith Formation are made regularly available again, the Saint Ann Youth Ministry Weekly Newsletter may be found online at w.stanninburleson.com/saooym or you may subscribe to it by e-mailing the Youth Coordinator at [email protected]. Classroom Sessions Cancelled Faith Formation and Fellowship classes have been cancelled in the Faith Formation Building for the remainder of the school year. Everyone who attends these classes should have received an e-mail by now with instructions on how to gain access to their online faith formation classes. If you have not received an e-mail or have trouble logging on, please contact the youth coordinator at [email protected] for assistance. 1 Sunday Mass Readings Acts 2:14,22-23 1 Peter 1:17-21 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed to them, “You Now if you invoke as Father him who who are Jews, indeed all of your staying in judges impartially according to each one’s works, Jerusalem. Let this be known to you, and listen to conduct yourselves with reverence during the my words.” “You who are Israelites, hear these time of your sojourning, realizing that you were words. Jesus the Nazorean was a man ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on by commended to you by God with mighty deeds, your ancestors, not with perishable things like wonders, and signs, which God worked through silver or gold but with the precious blood of him in your midst, as you yourselves know. This Christ, as of a spotless unblemished lamb. He man delivered up by the set plan and was known before the foundations of the world foreknowledge of God, you killed, using lawless but revealed in the final time for you, who men to crucify him. through him believed in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your Psalm 16:1-2, 5, 7-11 faith and hope are in God. Keep me safe, O God; Luke 24:13-35 In you I take refuge. I say to the Lord, Now that very day two of them were You are my Lord, going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem You are my only good. called Emmaus, and they were conversing about Lord, my allotted portion and my cup, all the things that had occurred. And it happened You have made my destiny secure. that while they were conversing and debating, I bless the Lord who counsels me; Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, Even at night my heart exhorts me. but their eyes were prevented from recognizing I keep the Lord always before me; him. He asked them, “What are you discussing With him at my right hand, I shall never as you walk along?” They stopped, looking Be shaken downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, said to Therefore my heart is glad, my soul rejoices him in reply, “Are you the only visitor to My body also dwells secure, Jerusalem who does not know of the things that For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, have taken place there in these days?” And he Nor let your devout one see the pit. replied to them, “What sort of things?” They said You will show me the path to life to him, “The things that happened to Jesus the Abounding joy in your presence, Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty indeed and The delights at your right hand forever. word before God and all the people, how our chief priests and rulers both handed hi over to a sentence of death and crucified hm. But we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel; and besides all this, it is now the third day since this took place. Some women from our group, however, have astounded us; they were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find his body; they came back and reported that they had indeed seen a vision of angels who announced that he was alive. Then some of those with us went to the tomb and found things just as the women had described, but him they did not see.” 2 And he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are! login information for your child or have difficulty How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets logging in, please contact the youth coordinator spoke! Was it not necessary that the Messiah at [email protected]. should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” Then beginning with Moses and all the Youth Ministry Q&A prophets, he interpreted to them what referred to him in all the scriptures. As they approached the Throughout the COVID-19 Shutdown, village to which they were going, he gave the we will be hosting a Saint Ann Youth Ministry impression that he was going on farther. But they Q&A every Wednesday from 5:00-5:40PM using urged him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening the Zoom app. The next Youth Ministry Q&A and the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay will be on April 29th, 2020. with them. And it happened that, while he was Meeting Code: 752-9450-7751 with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, Youth Ministries but he vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning Youth Ministry Newsletter within us while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?” So they set out at Saint Ann Youth Ministries are still once and returned to Jerusalem where they found looking for youth who are interested in writing gathered together the eleven and those with them one article a month for the Youth Ministry who were saying, “The Lord has truly been raised Newsletter. If your child is interested, please and has appeared to Simon!” Then the two contact the youth coordinator at recounted what had taken place on the way and [email protected]. how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread. Faith Formation Online Faith Formation Saint Ann Middle and High School Faith Formation is currently available online at www.mycatholicfaithdelivered.com. If you need Saint Maximilian Kolbe working for his publication Rycerz Niepokalanej (Knight of the Immaculata). 3 Youth Essays from God because it tell us to respect our The Ten Commandments: The neighbors no mater what the circumstances. We need treat our neighbors like how we will treat Greatest Commandment ourselves so with respect. The ten commandments are there for us so we can follow This week our youth watched a video the teaching of God and to try to prevent us from produced by Saint Ann Youth Ministry titled sinning. These commandments will make us a “The Ten Commandments (Part I): The Greatest better person in the world and a person of God. Commandment,” which discusses how the Ten Commandments teach how to follow the Greatest Commandment, to love our God above all things. Sebastian Juarez You can watch the video by clicking on the link at Today I will be talking about what I www.stanninburleson.com/saym-videoarchives. learned about the Ten Commandments (part one). To start things off, I didn’t know that they were written in the bible as bible verses. There are Bryan Sosa more than ten commandments. There is thirteen and you could even pull a fourteenth one out. In the video lesson I learned about the ten Some of these are elaborations on sins from other commandments and what the meaning behind commandments and what not. Commandments each commandment. I also learned about what is are made very explicit so people cannot find the greatest commandment that God told us to loopholes and ways to get around them. The follow. The ten commandments are a guide for sabbath is made for no work at all, no exceptions. us to love and worship God effectively, because A fun fact is they assert the uniqueness of God, the ten commandments are ten words of God. and forbid such things as theft, adultery, murder The ten commandments are called the ten words and lying. The Ten Commandments are also of God, because there are ten words, ten equally important in Jewish and Christian individual commandments. Each of the traditions and appear in the Old Testament in commandments address separate sins in the Exodus and Deuteronomy. One of the most Bible. Some of the commandments are that you fascinating things I learned are the order of the shall not have other God’s before him, not commandments and the true meaning. I will list murder, not commit adultery, not steal, and not them in order with the meaning.
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