October Week 3!
Sunday Night YM continues this weekend, October 18th at 7:00pm. We will have a live zoom for all high school students and catechists. Catechists will have time in breakout rooms to follow up with the service project we talked about last week. You can expect the meetings to last between 45mins and an hour. The YM schedule through December is attached below.
To avoid sign-in difficulties we are using a password from now on. The password is: HSYM
A reminder about this meeting: Wear comfy clothes! Our guest speaker will lead us all through some spiritually guided Yoga! We can all take a half hour to unwind and de-stress.
Community & Family Building Activities!
Cooking Time!
Once a month, as part of the virtual programming, I will send home a couple family bonding and community sharing activities. One of these will always be a family cooking event for which I will provide a video and recipe. These recipes are simple and easy to do as a family! So, you high school students, GET IN THE KITCHEN and help out with dinner!
Music Time!
The second activity this month is for you to enjoy on the go, on a run, or anytime you want a quiet moment of joy. Kristyn Russell and I sat down to talk about our love of music. We encourage you to find some time to think about how music has influenced your life! Maybe you'll find a few more songs to add to your playlist.
Journal week 3:
All high school students received a journal in your family packet. These journals are for you to use over the next 3 months. Each week you will receive a thought provoking question that has to do with the themes for the month. This month, the themes are Clothe the Naked and, the Catholic Social Teaching, Dignity of the Human Person.
Use your journal to privately respond to the question. You may also find it beneficial to have your journal handy for the Sunday Night Zoom meetings.
The question for this week is:
- If you died today, do you know for sure you’d go to heaven? If you died and stood before God and He asked you ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?”
Forms for Y2Y and Outreach!
We are wrapping up the Y2Y and Outreach Team signups! If you missed the information meetings, no problem! If you are interested but would like more information, please give me a call or send me a message!
To sign up to participate in Y2Y or Outreach teams, fill out the attachments below and send me the form to justinr@blessed-midland.org
We now have separate Y2Y and Outreach Flocknote groups! Starting in November, the links to those meetings will be included only in those group notes.
Upcoming parish events!
On October 18th the parish is hosting a Tag Tying event! In the past the Middle School group has tied all the Sharing Tree tags for the Salvation Army. Due to COVID restrictions this year, we are unable to complete the entire process on our own, BUT we are still going to help with this amazing program. After Mass on October 18th we would love to have your help tying some of the 2,000 tags we have requested. If we all pitch in, we can knock these out in a matter of minutes. Thank you in advance!
We are also going to host a Trunk-or-Treat on October 31st! Register your car here!
God bless. Stay safe.
Justin Rose
High School Youth Minister
Blessed Sacrament