High School
SIENA
Service Immersion thru Education N’ Action. SIENA is a service-learning program that prepares, guides, and supports High School youth in their outreach to others. SIENA events happen periodically throughout the year. Check back for events.
Workcamp -Young Neighbors in Action
An exciting, integrated service-learning experience for youth and adults. It is a week long program that provides the experiences, skills, and learning needed to make change possible. St. Monica Youth has participated in YNIA for many years and is excited to be part of this program once again. Location and details for this program will be posted when available.
Youth Leadership Team
The Youth Leadership Team is open to all high school students. This program is designed to strengthen the St. Monica Youth program as well as give youth a unique opportunity to develop ministry and leadership skills. Contact Rosa to learn how you can help as a Youth Leader.
Retreat Team
This team will be responsible for planning retreat talks, games, activities, themes, and leading small groups. The positions available in the retreat team are: retreat leaders, games coordinator, speaker, small group leader, gophers, and skit and entertainment planner. Contact Rosa for meetings and for positions that are still available.
Youth Group
The Youth Group gives all high school youth the opportunity to develop a deeper understating of their faith and a stronger connection to the Catholic community. The Youth Group will be meeting most Sunday nights after the 5:30 pm Mass. At the meetings we will have speakers, prayer, discuss topics of interest, and get to know each other. Dinner is always provided.
Confirmation
The Sacrament of Confirmation along with Baptism and the Eucharist are the sacraments of Christian initiation. In the Oakland diocese we offer the Sacrament of Confirmation at the age of 16. Classes begin in the 9th grade and it is a two year program. Confirmation Candidates must also be involved in Parish and Community Service and Youth Group.
High school confirmation for 2009/2010 will begin on Monday, October 5th and Thursday, October 8th.
Bible Study
St. Monica is offering a Bible study program for high school youth who are interested in exploring Scripture in a small group. We will be discussing the Acts of the Apostles which is written by Luke and tells the story of the challenges and struggles of the New Christians. Jesus taught us that all are welcome at the Lord's Table, and Acts tells us how the Apostles invited the Jews and Gentiles to the table as well as how they formed a new faith-based community. We will post when this program becomes available.
Religious Awards for Scouts
This program is offered as part of the catechetical program of the Church. In earning awards, scouts explore faith in relationship to church, family and friends in a scouting context. Awards are earned by completing projects outlined in awards booklets, available for each award. We will post when this program is available.
Middle School and High School
Church of Rock
St. Monica Middle and High School youth gather together to sing and to play musical instruments on Sundays at the 5:30 pm Mass. Church of Rock is led by Hannah Bochenek. We welcome musicians and singers of various levels to join in our weekly rehearsals on Sundays at 3 pm and to lead the congregation in song at special Masses.
5:30 pm Sunday Mass
The Sunday 5:30 pm Mass offers youth the opportunity to be the primary ministers. Youth serve as the altar servers, greeters, Eucharistic ministers, lectors, and musicians. The 5:30 pm Mass is held every Sunday from Labor Day until Memorial Day.
Middle School
Leadership
Middle School Leadership is open to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Leadership prepares youth to be planners, leaders, decision makers, communicators, and facilitators of middle school activities. Leadership meets every Tuesday after school.
Boy Scouts – Ad Altare Dei Program
The purpose of the Ad Altare Dei (to the altar of God) program is to help Catholic Scouts of the Roman Rite develop a fully Christian way of life in the faith community. The program is organized in chapters based on the seven Sacraments. The seven Sacraments are a primary means toward spiritual growth. We will post when this program becomes available.
Girl Scouts – Marian Medal Program
The Marian Medal program is written for young Catholics, ages 12-15, to enable them to “proclaim the greatness of the Lord.” This is accomplished by actively involving the participants in an understanding of Mary as a model of openness and spirituality—a woman of the church. Through various projects, discussions, and liturgical celebrations over a period of months, the participants are provided with a unique opportunity to develop new insights into their personalities, friends, parents, and the world around them. We will post when this program becomes available.
Youth Drama Club
We invite all youth to come and join our new Youth Drama Group. This group will be meeting every Thursday from 2:30-4pm. We will be creating and performing skits for the St. Monica community.
SWeRVe - Serving our World with Respect and Vision
=Swerve: to make a sudden change in direction
We can make a sudden change in our world. Through the SWeRVe Program middle school youth become empowered to serve the local and global community, learn the importance of treating all people with respect and dignity and the tools needed to become visionaries of social change.
We Don’t Just Serve we SWeRVe
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