Senior High Youth Rally!!

Hey Everyone!

Be sure to get signed up for the Jefferson City Diocesan Youth Rally on Sunday, October 15th. The Youth Rally, which will feature Andrew Hoyt from Notre Dame, is an exciting day where teens from all over the diocese gather to grow in their faith, meet new friends, worship God, and have fun. If you want to go, call me at 636-7002 or e-mail me at scerneka@stpeterjc.org. The information is listed below:

FUN!!!!!!!!!

Next week, we're doing a couple of things just for fun. The first will be a hayride.



For the hayride, we'll meet at the Binder Park Pavilion (the one that's hard to find) at 5:45pm. The wagons will leave at 6pm. We'll return to the pavilion at 8pm. The night will include games, food, music, and fun. ALL high school students are welcome to attend.

The other event is our trip to Six Flags on Saturday, September 30th.



There isn't much to describe here. It's just Six Flags. You can click here to find a flier and permission slip for the trip.

If you have any questions, let me know. Be sure to bring your friends.

-Shannon

Did you make it to Lifeteen on Sunday?

If not...Noah has something he wants to show you:



The next Lifeteen Mass will be in two weeks on Sunday, October 1st at I.C. Church starting at 5pm. Be there or face the wrath of Noah.

-Shannon

A Christian "How-To"

Here is a simple way to focus on God at various moments of our life. It comes from the end of an reflection written by Rick Warren, author of "The Purpose Driven Life":




Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments,WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.

This Week

Just a reminder that the deadline for signing up for World Youth Day is Tuesday, September 12th, although I will take them up until Friday. For more information about World Youth Day, click here.




Also, the first Lifeteen Mass and Life Night of the 2006-2007 school year will be this Sunday night from 5-8pm at I.C. Lifeteen, which will generally be held on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month, is an excellent opportunity to worship God, meet new friends, and deepen your faith in Christ. For more information about Lifeteen, click here.


-Shannon

Remembering September 11th - 5 years later

Hello,

The events of September 11th, 2001 are already a horrible part of our history as Americans. As tomorrow passes, I encourage you to take time to pray for all of those who have been affected directly by this tragedy. Those people include World Trade Center workers, firefighers, police officers, EMTs, Pentagon employees, airplane crews, and passengers, widowed spouses, and parentless children. From that day on, many political and military events were born. There are many more people who are now wrapped up in a world filled with violence, fear, hatred, religious extremism than ever before. Those people include members of the armed forces, their families, and the citizens of Afghanistan and Iraq.

With so much negative in the world, it's hard to look through and see peace, see God. Therefore, we have to always return to the one place we know we can find God...prayer. Please pray for peace in our world. Please, also, pray for peace in the hearts of peoples of the world. Here is a prayer that can help:

Five years have passed, O Lord,
five years of mourning and of tears,
of struggling to make sense and to go on.
Five years since crashing planes, collapsing building,
rivers of smoke and ash and fear brought death and fear.

Give us the courage to hope again, Father.
To pray even for our enemies, and for ourselves.
Give us the grace to be freed from hate
and unbound from the paralysis of fear.
Give us the freedom of the children of God.

Awaken in our hearts a firm resolve
“to reject the ways of violence,
to combat everything that sows hatred and division
within the human family,
and to work for the dawn of a new era
of solidarity, justice and peace.”

We ask this through the Prince of Peace,
our Way, our Truth, and our Life,
Christ the Lord. Amen.
(Closing Prayer from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops prayer Remembering 9/11)
http://www.usccb.org/vocations/rememberanceprayers.shtml


-Shannon

Open Gym This Sunday

All high school students are welcome to come to the Selinger Centre gym this Sunday from 11:30am-1:00pm for an "Open Gym". What is an "Open Gym"? Basically, we have reserved the gym on several dates for teens to come in and play basketball, volleyball, dodgeball, or whatever they want. It's just a time to come and hang out and be with friends. If we get enough teens who want to order lunch (pizza, subs, etc.), we'll do that too. It's just meant to be fun.

If you have any questions, let me know. You should come and check it out, though.

-Shannon

Respect For Your Parents...Seriously

Click here for a light-hearted reminder about the role our parents play in our lives and what God thinks of them.

-Shannon

P.S. My parents drive me crazy sometimes, but they are my parents and I love them.

Happy Labor Day

Here are a couple of things to help you celebrate Labor Day. The first is more thought-provoking and the second is just fun:

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Homestar Runner






-Shannon

More World Youth Day Info!

Hello All!

If you are looking for information about World Youth Day at the Shrine, you can click here and be taken to the "Upcoming Events" page on our parish youth ministry website. There, you will find links for the World Youth Day fliers and permission slips. Be sure to check out the Shrine's Youth Ministry website for information about the day.

-Shannon