High School - Grades 9-12

Our Theme This Year: Encountering the Living Christ

The mission of our Life Teen program at St. Rose is to bring middle-school teens and their families to an encounter with the living Christ. At St. Rose, our Life Teen program offers a diverse blend of Adoration, catechetical nights, group-building, service projects, mission trips, community building, and prayer nights. We also offer a weekend parish youth retreat during the fall and spring semesters, a winter diocesan retreat in Williams, and a summer Steubenville Conference retreat trip.

What Does Life Teen Look Like for Teens?

Our Life Teen program is designed to form teens in the faith. We seek to meet every teen in the program exactly where they are in their understanding of their faith, in their spiritual walk with the Lord, in their maturity as individuals, and in their leadership and service in our community.

We want every teen to know, appreciate, and live the beauty of their faith by forming a personal relationship with the living Christ. Teens are at a transitional stage of life in which they are preparing to enter adulthood, and we want each of our teens to enter adulthood with the best faith formation possible.

Why Do We Have Life Teen?

Our Life Teen program exists to bring teens to a personal relationship with the Lord and to nurture their faith to prepare them for life post-graduation. We strive to form a community of young Catholics who are excited to live out the truth of our faith. Life Teen seeks to bring joy and life into the Church by bringing out the joy and life in our teens as they grow deeper in the faith.

When teens encounter the living Christ through the beauty of the Catholic faith, they will transform our parish, our community, and even our culture. Teens are very transformational and passionate, and we have seen transformational teens “get it” in our youth ministry programs and transform entire families into finding a deeper love and appreciation for the faith and sacraments.

How Can I Help Out?

There are many opportunities to help our teens grow in their faith, their love of the Lord, and their appreciation for the sacraments.  Working with teens brings many blessings and graces. There is nothing like seeing the moment when a teen “gets it” and is transformed forever by an encounter with the Living Christ. Please prayerfully consider helping out with our Core Team, our retreats, and our prayer ministry!

Core Team Members

Our Core Team Members engage, mentor, and build relationships with our teens as they grapple with their faith, their identity, their self-worth, and more. Core Team Members facilitate small group discussions and other activities related to the topic of the evening. Each Core Team Member makes a huge impact on the teens they work with.

Core Team Assistants

Our Core Team Assistants help out by supporting our Core Team Members behind the scenes. Core Team Assistants substitute for Core Team Members when they need breaks, help with setup and cleanup, cover check-in and check-out, or help out in other ways.

Retreat Chaperones

Retreat Chaperones help our teens encounter the Living Christ during retreats. When on retreat, teens bond, form community, come to a better understanding of the faith, experience the sacraments in a deeper way, and grow in their love of the living Christ.

Retreat Assistants

Retreat Assistants help out behind the scenes during retreats so that the Core Team and the Retreat Chaperones can focus on the teens. Retreat Assistants take care of behind-the-scenes responsibilities such as cooking, setup, take-down, check-in, check-out, liturgy, and more.

Food Preparers

Food Preparers feed and nourish our teens’ appetites so that they can focus on encountering the living Christ. All our retreats and most Sunday evenings require feeding hungry teens, and our Food Preparers are invaluable for the way they nourish our teens.

Guest Speakers

Our Guest Speakers give a short testimony of how their lives were transformed by the Living Christ. Our own stories from our own lives mean so much to our teens because of how real, honest, and relatable our own testimonies are!

Prayer Teams

Youth ministry does not happen without prayer support from people in our parish committed to praying for the needs of our teens and volunteers. Our Youth Ministry Prayer Team is committed to bathing everything that we do to reach our teens in prayer.

What Will the Youth Ministry Look Like This Year?

Our Life Teen program will be held each week on Sunday from 5:45-7:30pm, after the 4:00pm Youth Mass. Here is our short but exciting list of what is underway this year in Life Teen program!

The 4:00pm Sunday Youth Mass

Fr. Samuel will be celebrating the 4:00pm Youth Masses beginning on Sunday, August 1, once he gets settled in here at St. Rose. We invite all of our teens and young people to get involved and to consider serving as they feel called in our Youth Masses.

Life Nights

Life Nights will be held each week on Sunday from 5:45-7:30pm for our time of discipleship and growth in the faith.

Meals

Because our youth ministry evenings typically happen on Sundays after the 4:00pm Mass, dinner for our high school teens is an integral part of our youth ministry. In the past, our youth ministry has ordered pizza every week for our high schoolers.

This year, to keep our program costs down, we are looking for donations and cooking assistance for fixing up our own meals for the high schoolers.  If you would be willing to bring a meal or help us cook a meal for the teens, please let us know!

Retreats

This year, we plan to host summer, fall, and spring retreats. While we have held retreats for our teens before, we want to offer more retreats for all of our youth with more consistency, since all of our teens consistently tell us that their retreats draw them ever closer to the living Christ in the Eucharist in a deep and profound way.

Mission Trips

For the first time ever, the St. Rose youth ministry is looking at organizing mission trips to serve those in need. Our teens will experience the importance of serving the community while also being drawn into a deeper relationship with the living Christ. Stay tuned for details!

Sacraments

When Fr. Samuel arrives, he will be committing much of his time to serving in our religious education and youth ministries. Fr. Samuel will be celebrating the Youth Masses and will be making the Sacrament of Reconciliation available to all of our teens at each meeting.

Student Leadership

We are looking for teens to step for leadership opportunities here in our parish and throughout our community. As we restart our 4:00pm Youth Masses, we will be looking for teens to take on leadership roles in the celebration of the sacred liturgy. We also look forward to working with teens excited to help work with bringing in new teens to our youth ministry program, in organizing mission trips, and in community engagement.

Questions?

Please contact Chris Bosn in the parish office at chrisbosn@stroseanthem.com.