Saint ann youth miniStry Weekly newsletter August 30th, 2020 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time Vol II, Issue IX Cover Page pg. 1 High School Faith Formation pg. 6 Headlines pg. 2 Girl’s Discipleship Contact the Office of Youth Ministries Youth Ministry Requests pg. 6 Weekly Sunday Reflections Catechists Needed Free Audio Bible in Development Teaching the Blessed Trinity Developing Formation for 2021-2022 Newsletter Translation Faith Formation Registration Quinceañera Team Needed Youth Parent Portal What Did the Popes Say? pg. 7 Sunday Mass Readings pg. 3 John Paul II – Fides et Ratio:13 Jeremiah 20:7-9 Ecumenical Councils pg. 8 Psalm 63:2-6,8-9 First Council of Nicea – Creed & CAN:1-5 Romans 12:1-2 Bite Size Catechesis pg. 9 Matthew 16:21-27 Modern Catholic Dictionary Office of Youth Ministries pg. 4 Catechism of the Catholic Church Office of Youth Ministry Schedule Code of Canon Law Youth Faith Formation Program The Early Church Fathers Youth Fellowship Program Youth Article pg. 10 Youth Ministry Newsletter St. Sebastian Youth Ministry Podcast Pope Saint Gregory I pg. 9 Saint Ann Sunday Reflections Newsletter pg. 10 Quinceañera Program Content Contribution Middle School Faith Formation pg. 5 Contributor The Ten Commandments Following Christ An Introduction to Salvation History The Sacramental Life of the Church An Introduction to the Catholic Church An Introduction to Confirmation 1 time registration will be completed. Both the youth and Headlines one parent must be present for the interview, and must be wearing a face covering and maintain social distancing Contact the Office of Youth Ministries requirements. You may always contact the Youth Minister by The Interview is broken into two parts, family calling (817) 295-5621 (ext. 7) or sending an e-mail to discernment and individual discernment. For the family [email protected] discernment, all members of the family are welcome to be present and participate. However, once individual Weekly Sunday Reflections discernment begins, we will ask that only one parent remain in the room for safe environment purposes, and all Saint Ann Faith Formation is beginning to other members wait outside while individual discernment produce weekly Sunday Reflections about the scripture is completed. readings each Sunday. These videos are between 5 and If you would like to schedule an interview for 10 minutes long and intended to give a few short thoughts your child, please check the Office of Youth Ministry about the passages for the week. schedule at www.stanninburleson.com/youthoffice and send an e-mail to the Youth Minister at Free Audio Bible in Development [email protected] or call the Office of Youth Ministries at (817) 295-5621 (ext. 7) Saint Ann Faith Formation is working on producing a free audio version of the New American Youth Parent Portal Bible. Currently only the first chapter of Genesis is currently available. Due to the scope of the project, the There is now available a Youth Parent Portal on required accuracy, and the fact that this project will be the Saint Ann Webpage in the Faith Formation section of worked on as time permits, additional sections of the bible the webpage. To view the portal, go to may become available slowly. Releases of additional www.stanninburleson.com and click on the Faith sections will be announced in this newsletter. You can Formation tab. At the bottom of the side menu, you will see the future home of this Audio bible on the Saint Ann see an entry labeled “parent portal.” The parent portal Webpage under Faith Formation – Parent Portal. contains information relating to faith formation in general, as well as various resources which are provided Developing Formation for 2021-2022 to assist in forming your children’s faith at home, as well as in the Church. The Saint Ann Youth Ministry podcast and newsletter can be found here, as well as a small, but Due to the COVID-19 Virus, Faith Formation this expanding section on the Saints where your children can year looks drastically different than it has in years past, learn their stories. In addition, a section in the parent necessitating the exclusive use of a homestudy program portal is being developed for registration for CRE, Youth for all youth. While we do need to study the faith from Formation and RCIA. home this year, we are not expecting to indefinitely learn the faith from home. Thus we are already planning for what faith formation will look like when we return from this shutdown, and how we are going to face this “new normal” which already threatens us and the Church. As a result, the Youth Faith Formation section of this newsletter has been divided into two and moved behind our Office of Youth Ministries section. These two sections, Middle School Formation and High School Formation will give an explanation on how we will be approaching faith formation, and what classes will be made available for our youth. See Page 5 for more details. Faith Formation Registration Youth Formation Registration is now open. All youth, grades 6-12 who will be attending Faith Formation this year must attend a discernment interview, at which 2 Sunday Mass Readings Romans 12:1-2 Jeremiah 20:7-9 I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy You seduced me, Lord, and I let myself be seduced; and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. Do not You were too strong for me, and you prevailed. conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by All day long I am an object of laughter; the renewal of your mind, that you ay discern what is Everyone mocks me. the will of God, what is good and pleasing and Whenever I speak, I must cry out, perfect. Violence and outrage I proclaim; The word of the Lord has brought me Matthew 16:21-27 reproach and derision all day long. I say I will not mention him, From that time on, Jesus began to show his I will no longer speak in his name. disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer But then it is as if fire is burning in my heart, greatly from the leaders, the chief priests, and the Imprisoned in my bones; scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised. I grow weary holding back, Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, I cannot! “God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you.” He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Psalm 63:2-6,8-9 me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.” O God, you are my God- Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever It is you I seek! wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up For you my body yearns; his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save For you my soul thirsts, his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my In a land parched, lifeless, sake will find it. What profit would there be for one And without water. to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what I look to you in the sanctuary can one give in exchange for his life? To see your power and glory. For the Son of Man will come with his angels For your love is better than life; in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay everyone My lips shall ever praise you! according to his conduct. I will bless you as long as I live: I will lift up my hands, calling on your name. My soul shall be sated as with choice food, With joyous lips my mouth shall praise you! You indeed are my savior, And in the shadow of your wings I should for joy. My soul clings fast to you; Your right hand upholds me. Jerusalem, the Holy City 3 Office of Youth Ministries Youth Ministry Newsletter The Saint Ann Youth Ministry Newsletter is a Office of Youth Ministry Schedule weekly publication which was started at the direction of The office of youth ministry schedule for the Trisha Vasquez as the Director of Religious Education. week is as follows. The Saint Ann Youth Ministry Newsletter was and is 8/30/2020: 9AM-4PM intended to provide weekly updates on the programs and 8/31/2020: Out of Office events taking place within Saint Ann Youth Ministries, 9/1/2020: 9AM-4PM provide information on other pertinent events throughout 9/2/2020: 9AM-4PM the Church, as well as share articles and information about 9/3/2020: 9AM-4PM the faith and the saints which parents can use to help teach 9/4/2020: 9AM-4PM the faith to their children and young adults. 9/5/2020: Labor Day Weekend Along with our parish patron Saint Ann, the 9/6/2020: Labor Day Weekend patron of the Youth Ministry Newsletter is Saint If you would like to schedule a meeting with the Maximilian Kolbe. Saint Maximilian Kolbe was arrested Youth Minister please contact him using information by the German Third Reich for resuming the publication provided at the top of page 2. of a journal which was critical of the Nazi party. He was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he died Youth Faith Formation Program when he took the place of another man who was to be starved to death in a bunker. Saints Ann and Maximilian The Youth Faith Formation Program is designed Kolbe, pray for us.