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2/16/2018 Session 3 Helping Youth Pray Check this out Robert Feduccia Making a Change It seems that the dots are quite clear to connect: 1) the greatest guarantor of ongoing religious affiliation is daily prayer 2) Catholic teens are the

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Session 3 Helping Youth Pray

Robert Feduccia

  • It seems that the dots are quite clear to connect: 1)

the greatest guarantor of ongoing religious affiliation is daily prayer 2) Catholic teens are the least likely to pray daily 3) the Catholic Church has the highest rate

  • f attrition among Christian Churches and ecclesial

communities.

  • Therefore, the greatest thing we can do as youth

ministers and as parents is to foster a daily prayer life among our teens.

Making a Change

Think about a time, you needed to make a change.

  • What made change hard?
  • What helped ?

Three Surprises about Change

  • First, people problems are often situation

problems.

  • Second, laziness is often rider exhaustion.
  • Third, resistance to change is often a lack
  • f clarity.

Understanding Change

  • Directing the rider.
  • Motivating the elephant.
  • Shaping the path.
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Shape the Path Direct the Rider and Motivate the Elephant

Youth and Prayer

  • How can we give crystal clear direction to youth about prayer?
  • How can we motivate, inspire, and provide examples of how to

pray?

  • How can we clear the path of obstacles to prayer?

Obstacles for Youth and Prayer

Understanding Prayer Distractions Insecurity / Frustration Feeling Self- conscious

Starting Points

  • Praying with Nature
  • Adoration
  • Praying with Scripture
  • Patterns of Prayer
  • Praying with Music
  • Praying with Journaling
  • Praying with Technology
  • Meditation

Helping Youth Pray

  • Help youth to identify styles of prayer
  • Connect communal prayer to personal prayer
  • Provide peer witnesses about prayer
  • Pray with and for young people
  • Use social media and technology to encourage youth to

pray

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Praying 10 Words a Day

  • Setting our hearts on Jesus
  • Acknowledging our gratitude and

dependence on God, our Father

  • Bringing the Holy Spirit into our

greatest challenges I love you Jesus. Thank you God. Come Holy Spiri irit.

Online Prayer Resources / Apps

  • HonorYourInnerMonk (St. Meinrad)
  • Laudete
  • ClickToPray
  • Creighton University
  • Daily Reflections
  • Online Retreat
  • Stickers for Phone Cover:
  • Diocesan.com

Youth and Prayer

  • How can we give crystal clear direction to youth about prayer?
  • How can we motivate, inspire, and provide examples of how to

pray?

  • How can we clear the path of obstacles to prayer?

Worksheet: Helping Youth Pray

  • What is the Current Reality?
  • What is the Desired Reality?
  • What are some ways we can crystal clear direction to Direct the

Rider?

  • What are some ways we can inspire, tap into emotions, and break

a big task into small pieces to Motivate the Elephant?

  • What are some ways we can make change more likely to Shape

the Path?

Session 4 Becoming a Community that Accompanies

Help Youth Find a Way to Participate Fully

  • Identify the ways that youth can be involved
  • Open up participation and shared leadership
  • Help youth access resources and choose involvements in your

community.

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6 Essential Strategies

  • 1. Unlock leadership.
  • 2. Empathize (don’t

judge).

  • 3. Take Jesus’ message

seriously.

  • 4. Fuel a warm

community.

  • 5. Prioritize young

people (and families) everywhere.

  • 6. Be the best

neighbors (locally and globally).

Process for Becoming a Community that Accompanies

A safe place to walk

  • “Public / Private Space”
  • Walking in Pairs

Becoming a Community that Accompanies

  • How can we give crystal clear direction to the parish about

accompanying youth?

  • How can we motivate, inspire, and provide examples of how to

accompany youth?

  • How can we clear the path of obstacles to accompaniment?

Acknowledge Youth Accompaniment – Paradigm for Ministry

  • Begins with the young

person.

  • Surrounds children and

youth with love and care.

  • Empowers lots of faith

companions.

  • Calls youth to prayer and

discernment.

  • Supports young disciples

in witness and service.

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Starting Points on the Pathway to Accompaniment

  • Accompaniment
  • Faith Companions
  • Parents / Families
  • Transforming Ministry

Programs

  • Building the

Community

A Faith Companion

Prays Connects Listens Empathizes Cares Witnesses Calls

Reflection for Faith Companions

Take a moment to think about a young person with whom you are a faith companion, (Or with whom you could be a faith companion.)

  • What does she or he need at this moment?
  • What is your next step as a faith companion?
  • What is something you would pray for this

young person?

Prayer

Prayer to Unleash the Gospel

Transform us into a band of joyful missionary disciples embracing the fruits of Synod 16 so as to share the good news

  • f Jesus Christ in Southeastern Michigan

through joyful evangelization and service. Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of your love. Amen. Saint Anne, pray for us. God our Father , you have called us to be witnesses to Jesus and have commissioned us to lead all people to encounter him. Send your Holy Spirit to enlighten our minds so that your will may be clear to us and that we may accept it. Dwell within our souls and make our hearts your own.

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Thank you