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What is LIFE TEEN?
LIFE TEEN is an international Catholic movement that serves the Church by providing resources and faith experiences that help lead teens closer to Christ. This is accomplished through a vibrant Eucharistic spirituality and by creating widespread opportunities for teens to grow in their faith.
The LIFE TEEN Mass
At the weekly LIFE TEEN Mass, teens and their families experience the depths of God’s love through the Word, the community, and the Eucharist. Relevant preaching and quality music bring the Catholic Mass to life.
LIFE Night
Following the LIFE TEEN Mass, we move to the Parish Hall where our Youth Minister and CORE Members lead the teens deeper into the faith through a mini “retreat-like” experience. As a faith community, the teens grow in understanding of what it means to be young and Catholic in the new millennium. The teens are affirmed, educated, and challenged to live the Gospel.
LIFE TEEN at St. Peter’s
Here at St. Peter’s, we take our faith very seriously. That is why we implemented the LIFE TEEN Program five years ago. We noticed that after our teens made their Confirmation, we rarely saw them anymore. So we decided that we would make their faith experience more transformational.
We implemented LIFE TEEN as an all inclusive youth ministry program, ecompassing everything from High School Youth Group to High School Catechesis. We found that it has been very effective in giving our teens a sense of who they are, who their church is and how much they are loved by their God and their church.
This is accomplished by centering their spirituality around the Jesus in the Eucharist (the Source, Center and Summit of our faith). We provide experiences for them at liturgies with contemporary music, eucharistic adoration, LIFE Nights, Retreats, Service Projects, and fun social events.
As LIFE TEEN leaders, we not only tell our teens how to get to Heaven and how much their God loves them, but we journey with them – teaching them and learning from them. Our job in four years is not to make them saints, but to show them where home is so that hopefully one day they will become saints.