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 pg. 8 Youth Ministries pg. 3 Newsletter pg. 9 Youth Ministry Newsletter Content Contribution Contributor Saint Ann Weekly Newsletter

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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.”

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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.

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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. covet. Those are the basic commandments that “I am the Lord thy God, though shall not should not be ignored because they are big sins have any strange gods before Me.” that some people commit in their everyday life. This commandment forbids idolatry, the The greatest commandment in the Bible is the worship of false gods and goddesses, and it first commandment. The first commandment is excludes polytheism, the belief in many gods, “you shall love the Lord, your God, with all your insisting instead on monotheism, the belief in one soul, and with all your mind.” This God. This commandment forbids making golden commandment is important in our life because it calves, building temples to Isis, and worshipping says to love God more than anything else in the statutes of Caesar for example. world. This may be hard for some people because “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord they loved their parents, dogs, phone, and video thy God in vain.” games. We shall remember that God loves us the The faithful are required to honor the most out of any people in the world and we need name of God. It makes sense that if you’re to love to respect him. He put this commandment so we God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, can follow his teaching and prayers. The second then you’re naturally to respect the name of God greatest commandment is another great command with equal passion and vigor. from God because it says, “you shall love your neighbor as yourself.” This great commandment

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“Remember to keep holy the Sabbath “The Eighth Commandment condemns day.” lying. Because God is regarded as the author of The Jewish celebration of Sabbath all truth, the Church believes that humans are (Shabbat) begins at sundown on Friday evening obligated to honor the truth. The most obvious and lasts until sundown on Saturday. Catholic, way to fulfill this commandment is not to lie – Protestant, and Orthodox Christians go to church intentionally deceive another by speaking on Sunday, treating it as the Lord’s Day instead falsehood. So a good Catholic is who you want of Saturday to honor the day Christ rose from the to buy a used car from. dead. “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s “Honor thy father and mother.” wife. This commandment obliges the faithful “The Tenth Commandment forbids the to show respect for their parents – as children and wanting to or taking someone else’s property. adults. Children must obey their parents, and Along with the Seventh Commandment, this adults must respect and see to the care of their commandment condemns theft and feelings of parents, when they become old and infirm. envy, greed, and jealousy in reaction to what “Thou shalt not kill.” other people have. The better translation from the Hebrew would be “Thou shalt not murder” – a subtle *edited down distinction but an important one to the Church. Killing an innocent person is considered murder. Abel Neri Killing an unjust aggressor to preserve your own life is still killing, but it isn’t considered murder “You shall love the Lord, your God, with or immoral. all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” mind.” What I have learned from this video is The sixth and ninth commandments honor human that the greatest commandment is also the first sexuality. This commandment forbids the actual commandment. The second commandment is physical act of having immoral sexual activity, similar to it. “You shall love your neighbor as specifically adultery, which is sex with someone yourself.” The prophet itself depends on these else’s spouse or a spouse cheating on a partner. two commandments. The video shows me what This commandment also includes fornication, it means to love the Lord our God, with all my which is sex between unmarried people, mind, and all my soul. God teaches us to do these prostitution, pornography, homosexual activity, things. The Ten Commandments are the words [etc]*. of God, in my understanding the rules to live by “Thou shalt not steal.” in honor of God. We follow these rules that God The seventh and tenth commandments has made for us to be able to be worthy to one day focus on respecting and honoring the possession have eternal life. There are only two accounts of of others. This commandment forbids the act of the ten commandments in the Bible (Exodus taking someone else’s property. The Catholic 20:1-17, Deuteronomy 5:6-21). Deuteronomy Church believes that this commandment also gets into a more detail as does the video about denounces cheating people of their money or every commandment. For example, there are 13 property, depriving workers of their just wage, or commands in the Ten Commandments but the not giving employers a full day’s work for a full reason why its only 10 is because there are ten day’s pay. Embezzlement, fraud, tax evasion, words of God and each of these commandments and vandalism are all considered extensions of address separate sins. In the video we learn what violations of the seventh commandment. the meaning of all the commandments and why “Thou shalt not bear false witness against they are in the Ten Commandments. The Ten thy neighbor.” Commandments is like a poem because a poem is a collection of words that express ideas or emotions in a powerful and vivid style. A poem can be very complex, you have to break it down word by word or sentence by sentence; and when

5 you do you start to understand why the author Katheryn Godinez wrote in the poem. In this case it’s the Ten Commandments which have more mean than it What is the Greatest Commandment? seems. For example, one of the commandments The Greatest Commandment is “You shall love says “you shall not steal” in this case it’s pretty the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all straightforward meaning you will not/don’t steal, your soul, and with all your mind. This is the because you are breaking the rules and greatest and the first commandment. The second committing a sin of taking something that is not is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yours. There are other Commandments that mean yourself” (Matthew 22:37-39). a lot in just one sentence. I am sure the Ten With this statement, Jesus gave a Commandments are one of the most important summary about the morals of the thirteen rules to live life as righteous as possible. commandments, otherwise known as the ten words of God or the ten commandments. The Jocelyn Cecenas reason why most peoples know the thirteen commands as the ten commandments is because I learned today that there was a Pharisee there are thirteen individual commands but here who tried to test Jesus by asking him “Teacher of these commands can be grouped together due which commandment in the law is the greatest?” to them sharing the same sin. For example, th first and Jesus responded to him “You shall love the three commands are able to be grouped together Lord your God, with all your heart, with all your to make one commandment because all three of soul, and with your mind.” That is the first these commands are saying that we should commandment and the greatest with the second worship God and God alone and we shall not commandment. When the Lord gave us the two worship anything else. An interesting fact about first commandments we would change what they the first three commandments is that it addresses really meant in our heads and change the way that the first part of the greatest command which is we are supposed to love the Lord. I did not know “You shall love the Lord, your God, With all your that catechesis means that the form of a religious heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” action that leads both the individual person and Lastly from the video I learned that some the community members of the faithful to commandments if put together can have the same maturity of faith. You shouldn’t use God’s name meaning but are different examples of how one in vain because he will not leave anyone who may be disobeying a command and doing a sin. does unpunished at some point. He also gave us An example of this would be commandment a sabbath day in which we all get to rest and number eight “You shall not kill,” commandment worship the Lord/God, he means not to work at number nine “you shall not commit adultery,” all that day, not even slaves if you have any commandment number ten “You shall not steal,” because our ancestors were once slaves too, from and lastly commandment number eleven “you Egypt and God freed us. The Lord also wants us shall not bear dishonest witness against your to honor our father and mother and if we do we neighbor.” All four of these commandments are will have along life and you can arrive to the land basically saying that we should not lie about our of the Lord that our God is giving us. We should neighbors or in general to anybody else. not kill, we shall not commit adultery, we shall not steal, we should not bear dishonest witness against our neighbors, we shall not covet our neighbors wife, and that we shall not want our neighbors things. Also I did not know that there were 13 commandments. I always though there were only ten. So that was all I learned today and I can’t wait for the next chapter or video comes.

The Ten Commandments

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Articles

The Duties of Parents (Part VIII of XI) grow them in our children without nurturing and by August Klein growing them within ourselves. A commentary on CCC:2228 Our entire journey as Christians is a journey to come to know and love God, and to

devote ourselves to him. We come to know, love As we are made man and woman in the and devote ourselves to God in much the same way image of God, we are meant to live in that image. that we come to know, love, and devote ourselves The Father pours out all his love and devotion on to our spouses. Our spouse is not a list of dates and the Son, and the Son, receiving that love and facts, of interests and fears. Our spouse is a living devotion, returns it in kind. As husband and wife, person who is “bone of my bones, flesh of my we are to give, receive, and return our respect and flesh,” and we devote ourselves to them as the affections the one for the other. This respect and person they are. From the information we learn affection, when properly expressed, will manifest about them, we develop a relationship with them itself in the way care for and devote ourselves to our and come to know them in a way that we could not children. The relationship between ourselves and simply by having the traits of their personality listed our spouse, and ourselves and our child are not a off to us. In much the same way, we devote series of relationships, but a total relationship. ourselves to God. First by learning the facts about Husband, wife, and child, or children. A defect in him, and then with the knowledge of certain facts, one relationship is a defect in all of the relationship. striving to enter into relationship with him. But just We must be able to provide for the physical as you could not enter into relationship with a and spiritual wellbeing of our spouse, as it is our person you know nothing, and learn nothing about, responsibility to provide for the physical and you can not enter into relationship with God if you spiritual wellbeing of our child. If we do not know nothing, and learn nothing about him. provide for our spouse, we are not capable of Through our devotion to God, we learn all we can providing for our child, at least not in the manner in about him, and enter into that proper relationship which we ought. The proper love and devotion for with God. our spouse naturally produces the fruit of proper As we devote ourselves first to God, and love and devotion for our children. If our love and then our spouse, we can finally properly devote devotion for our spouse is distorted, in either a ourselves to our children. As we learn to properly distorted, deficient, or excessive way, then our love use our reason and freedom, we begin to teach our and devotion for our children will be distorted, often children to do so as well. It is our responsibility as in the same way, leading to our own children having parents to ensure that our children learn to use these a distorted view of the world. gifts properly. If not, these gifts can be lost as we It is our duty, to provide properly, for the turn to sin and the impulses of the flesh diminish or physical and spiritual needs of our children. Having blot out entirely our capacity for right reason and the right relationship with our spouse, and freedom, destroying our free will entirely and extending that relationship to our child, they will be replacing it with addiction. Addiction to food, brought up with a right view of the world. Being addiction to alcohol, addiction to sex, or even brought up with a right view of the world, it is the addiction to our free time, which will result in their responsibility of the parents to not only be an refusal to attend Mass and enter into relationship example and teach them to act as they ought, but to with God. When we lose our free will, we do like teach them how to properly use the gifts which have Adam, who on the day he ate the apple from the tree been given to us and to them by God, so those gifts of knowledge, he died. While alive in the flesh, we do not later become distorted by the world. are dead in the spirit. We become the walking dead. God has given every man the gifts of reason and free will, and without God, it is impossible for existence of these faculties in man or any other creature. These gifts must be nurtured and grown in our children, and we can not nurture or

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Saint Louis De Montfort

Louis de Montfort was born in 1673 in , and of eighteen children born to Jean- Saint Louis continued his preaching Baptiste and Jeanne Robert Grignion, was the missions, and during this time wrote three books oldest to survive childhood. At the age of 12, he for which he is renown. True Devotion to Mary, entered into the Jesuit College of Saint Thomas The Secret of Mary and Secret of the Rosary. Becket in Rennes where his uncle was a parish True Devotion to Mary has one of the most priest. Saint Louis preached to the very poor and influential books on Total Marian Consecration. under the guidance of local priests, he developed Due to the impact and the fiery way in which he a strong devotion to the Virgin Mary. preached, Saint Louis was often opposed and A local benefactor sponsored Louis to even poisoned. While the poison did not kill him, study in Paris, but when he arrived he learned he it did cause his health to suffer. had not been provided enough money, so he lived Despite his suffering health, Louis went in a series of boarding houses and among the very on to open many free schools for the poor. Louis poor while attending the Sorbonne University. In was asked to found a new school at the invite of a few years he became very ill and was the bishop of and enlisted the help of hospitalized. Marie Louise Trichet who had been running a When released, Louis discovered a place hospital in . Shortly thereafter, the school had been reserved for him at Saint-Sulpice where became capable of housing 400 students. he was appointed the librarian, giving him the In 1716, Louis began a mission to opportunity to study many works on spirituality SaintLaurent-sur-Sevre. He had become very and the place of the Virgin Mary in the Christian worn out by his ill health and hard work, and on life. April 28th, he fell ill and died at the age of 43. Louis was ordained a priest in 1700 and Forty three years later, Marie Louise Trichet later that year joined the Dominicans where he would also die in Saint-Laurent-sur Sevre on began to form rosary confraternities. During this April 28th. time he also met Marie Louise Trichet, who after Saint Louis de Montfort was canonized this meeting began a 34 year mission of service on July 20th, 1947 by Pope Pius XII and his feast to the poor. day is April 28th. He is the patron saint of Louis eventually traveled to , preachers. where Pope Clement XI, recognizing his vocation, sent him back to France with the title of Apostolic Missionary. He preached for several years and attracted hundreds of people to build a large memorial of Cavalry. A plot was discovered where Jansenist heretics had influenced the King of France to order its destruction as soon as it was built, and the local bishop forbade its construction.

Saint Louis De Montfort

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The Newsletter

Content Contribution August Klein is available in the We are currently looking for content Formation Office at any of the office hours posted contributors who may want to write on various on his online schedule, or you can reach him at subjects pertaining to the Youth Formation, his e-mail. Youth Fellowship and Youth Ministry programs. All youth from grades 6-12 are also welcome to Schedule: create content for the Newsletter for which they http://www.stanninburleson.com/saooym will receive service hours. Publishable E-mail: submissions will range between 300 and 500 [email protected] words. -You have made us for yourself O’Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you. (Saint Augustine) Contributors

August Klein: August Klein is the Youth Coordinator at Saint Ann and currently writes the entirety of the Saint Ann Youth Ministry Weekly Newsletter. He published the first issue on February 4th, 2020 at the direction of the Director of Religious Education, Trisha Vasquez. August is a revert to Catholicism. After leaving the church around 2001, he returned to the Catholic Church with his family at the end of 2014 the last Sunday of Ordinary Time before the beginning of advent. In 2015 after Lent, he had his children Baptized and his wife Kelly joined the Church the following year through RCIA. During his children’s first year of faith formation, August began to fill in for teachers who could not make it on a given day and was subsequently asked to teach his own Children’s Faith Formation starting in 2016. In 2017 he was asked to help teach Youth Confirmation and with parent formation for Children’s Holy Communion. In 2019 when his children began attending Middle School Faith Formation, August was again asked to teach Middle School Formation, during which time he was hired as the Youth Coordinator for Saint Ann Catholic Church.

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