YOUTH MINISTRY NEWS for August 29, 2021

We are better with you than we are without you, and so are you.
Any school … All Saints, St. Vincent Ferrer, and any other parish, and your friends!
7^th & 8^th grade for Junior High Youth Group; 9^th -12^th grade for High School Youth Group and Highschoolers of the Well (HOW).

Jesus summoned the crowd and said to them “Hear Me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that enters one from outside can defile (make unclean) that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.” Jesus’ words in today’s Gospel (Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-23) give us enormous energy to strive for purity, holiness, goodness. A beautiful prayer for a clean heart is found in Psalm 51:12, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me”. Let’s heed Jesus’ call to holiness. Let’s strive to be of a clean heart. Let’s be vigilant. Let’s consistently ask the Holy Spirit to help us be of a clean heart. Let us pray for us and those we love.

Junior High Youth Group
Another big group of Junior High folks joined us last Sunday for lots of fun, food, and faith. It is so very good to see so many come together.

We will gather the Junior High Youth Group on Sunday September 26 from 6:30 – 8:30PM at All Saints. Our “Pizza, Pray & Play” is for all students in the 7^th or 8^th grade at any school. We’re better with you; we think U R 2. We plan to be outside for much of the time, and we will make a prayerful visit in Church. Please bring your Archdiocese Release Form if you have not yet returned one. Find the form at www.allsaints.cc
We very much look forward to seeing you! Come on, give it a try.

HOW (Highschoolers of the Well … it’s a kinda cool story)
If you are an incoming Freshman, Sophomore, Junior or Senior, at any high school, we look forward to welcoming you to HOW! For the past couple of HOW gatherings we’ve welcomed kids from 6 or 7 high schools … “We are many parts; we are all one body”.
We’ll gather HOW on Monday August 30 and Monday September 20 from 7:00 – 8:30PM at All Saints. Come spend 90 minutes with HOW. You’ll like the refresh, reset, relax, rekindle, rejuvenate, refocus, and renew you will find with HOW.

Welcome Back
Receiving Jesus in the Eucharist is the greatest thing we ever do, ever. Please come back to Mass so you can receive Jesus fully, completely, selflessly, enthusiastically, reverently, joyfully, gratefully, humbly, lovingly.