Comments on: Youth When the Church Was Young

By: margaret mary

margaret mary — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:26:44 +0000

First met St.Tarcisius when I was 7yrs old, then, as an adult, he was instrumental in my accepting the awsome privilege of becoming a Eucharistic minister!!

By: Skip Burns

Skip Burns — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:01:47 +0000

The orininal posting of this topic has the signiture of Christian pedagogy hidden behind it. The formal Greek term is paideia. Werner Jaeger in his “Early Christianity and Greek Paideia” opens out his life time studies into Greek and Jewish paideia. We are apostilic animals. We teach out children. Or, as St. Paul said: What do you have that you have not recieved? We are all teachers at heart; and the young are the first to learn. But the process continues all our life. Thank God.

By: Jean

Jean — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 04:23:08 +0000

The Council ended when I was in the 3rd Grade. We had Baltimore Catechism Grades 1-3 in Catholic school. In the 4th Grade we had a new Religion book with “hip” pictures of kids having fun. It was all about how religion made us “feel.” It was a psychological approach. Even at age 9, my class was sensing a different type of catechesis and we were BORED! We doodled in our Religion books and called them “dumb.” By High School (I was in CCD) we were crying out for “substance” in our catechetics. Rather, we were analysing the lyrics to “Bridge Over Troubled Waters and discussing the Vietnam War. Not a mention of Jesus Christ in a whole 4 years of CCD! I finally gave up and joined a Protestant Bible study group at my high school. Today I attend the Traditional Mass. A long quest led me to the “fullness of the truth & faith.” Many, sadly, lost the way or gave up the search.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 04:02:42 +0000

Who had a huge influence on Children’s Liturgies? Annibale Bugnini (Freemason). Michael Davies masterfully showed how Bugnini started to erode the Novus Ordo beginning with the children’s liturgies. One of his first innovations was “guitar Masses.” If we know this truth, then why don’t we expose it and clean up the whole mess.

By: Threads from Henry’s Web » Blog Archive » Links to start the week

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:59:49 +0000

[...] After Shane Raynor posted on worship, and I posted about his post, considerable discussion followed. I’d like to add Youth When the Church was Young (hat tip Locusts and Honey post on the topic), which talks about youth taking on real Christianity. I would like to challenge the concept that worship must be either entertaining or filled with content. I think worship can be enjoyable, educational, and really be about God, all at the same time. Perhaps I’ll have to write some more on this topic. In the meantime, reading about youth in the early church may challenge some preconceptions! [...]

By: MikeHalbrook.com Blog

MikeHalbrook.com Blog — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:58:42 +0000

Youth Ministry in the Young Church…

Posted from Starbucks in Granite City. Brought to you by T-Mobile Wi-Fi and a grande mocha. God bless Mike Aquilina. Suzanne and I happily give his book Living the Mysteries to new members of the Church that we know each year at Easter Vigil. And this …

By: kcpriest

kcpriest — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:19:32 +0000

Sorry if I missed it, but is this not the approach to youth ministry employed by the Dead Theologians Society? If you are unfamiliar look up http://www.deadtheologianssociety.com (be sure you don’t omit one of the two consecutive ’s’)

From all reports, parishes where this is used are also producing fruits like one might expect in th early church – vocations, dedication, commitment, desire for holiness and sanctity.

By: the evangelical outpost

the evangelical outpost — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:50:17 +0000

The Patristic-Driven Youth Ministry…

The Way of the Fathers has a great post on the Patristic-era youth ministry: Now, dont jump to conclusions. I havent uncovered any evidence that St. Ambrose led teens on ski trips in the nearby Alps. Nor is there anything……

By: Bob KOch

Bob KOch — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:08:08 +0000

Will, Look no further than the late great Cardinal O’Connor of New York. What a man. Pray for more like that.

By: Pauli

Pauli — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:24:02 +0000

Sounds like the Fathers knew how to live out the scripture of St. Peter’s first healing in Acts when he basically said “Dude, look, I’m flat broke, but rise up in the name of Jesus Christ.” Sometimes you can do your best work when you completely run out of resources and have to fall back on the power you have as a child of God who can call down legions of angels.