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National Youth Advisory Council Being Created!
The National Youth Advisory Council is a diverse group of young people that will integrate their voices and gifts into all work and ministry of the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry (NFCYM). The council will be comprised of up to 12 young people and 4 adults, including Project Chair, plus 2 ex-officio (Strategy Leader and NFCYM staff liaison). For more information and to nominate a young person, click the button below.
New Resources on the Human Person & Gender Ideology
Empowering Young People to Respond to World Events
Excellent Training Opportunity from Lifelong Faith
Active Learning Kits Now Available in Our Lending Library!!
Catechist Formation Videos for Your Training Use!
We Need Your Photo Skills
- Postures, Gestures, & Actions
- Tour of the Church
- What we use for Mass & Eucharistic Adoration
- Parts of the Mass
- Unheard Prayers at Mass
- Liturgical Seasons, Feasts, & Holy Days
All said, we need a TON of photos to accomplish this. The full list of posts/photos we need can be found at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O1DKTxgwLyJ3o0SmoJQ8Hy7ytUcwKVMYmbP9Ve2DF8Y/edit?usp=sharing
If you can provide photos of any of these, our goal is to have images from across the Diocese. They will be formatted to all be the same (looking like the one below) and accompanied by text explaining. Photo credit will be given in the post. Just email them to Don (donald.smith@dor.org). He will update the spreadsheet so everyone can see what posts have images.
The TABERNACLE is a locked box which holds the Eucharist. Each Catholic Church has a tabernacle and personal prayer is encouraged. The Eucharist is kept for visits to the sick and homebound and well as personal prayer before our Lord. #EucharistRevival #Catholic #DOR
Photo Credit: St. Louis, Pittsford | KNEELING has historical roots as a posture of subservience. When we kneel, we acknowledge that we are in the presence of someone much greater than ourselves. It is no wonder, then, that we kneel during the consecration, when Christ is made manifest in our midst, and after receiving Jesus body, blood, soul, and divinity, into ourselves in the Eucharist. We also kneel in adoration before the exposed Blessed Sacrament, and in private prayer with God. Kneeling is our way of acknowledging that God is god and we are not. #EucharistRevival #Catholic #DOR Photo credit: Ben White on unsplash.com | The PRESENTATION OF THE GIFTS is when the bread and wine are brought forward for the Eucharist. It is not purely a handing over of the "stuff" for Mass, it is a giving or offering from the People of God to God. #EucharistRevival #Catholic #DOR Photo credit: Jeff Witherow |
The TABERNACLE is a locked box which holds the Eucharist. Each Catholic Church has a tabernacle and personal prayer is encouraged. The Eucharist is kept for visits to the sick and homebound and well as personal prayer before our Lord.
#EucharistRevival #Catholic #DOR
Photo Credit: St. Louis, Pittsford
KNEELING has historical roots as a posture of subservience. When we kneel, we acknowledge that we are in the presence of someone much greater than ourselves. It is no wonder, then, that we kneel during the consecration, when Christ is made manifest in our midst, and after receiving Jesus body, blood, soul, and divinity, into ourselves in the Eucharist. We also kneel in adoration before the exposed Blessed Sacrament, and in private prayer with God. Kneeling is our way of acknowledging that God is god and we are not. #EucharistRevival #Catholic #DOR
Photo credit: Ben White on unsplash.com