This presentation is given to youth and young adults groups. The focus is on maintaining your faith through the critical transitional stages of life (e.g. going to college, entering high school). Highlights core elements essential for a foundation in faith. This presentation is offered for viewing by Roger Jay Schroeder of Comprise | Enrichment & Consulting. More information on keynote, presentation, topical research, and staff development services offered by Comprise are located on the web at http://comprise.rohair.com/ Peace be with you.

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6. • What to do with our time???
• Do some theology (thinking/discussing God)
• When Faith and *WORLD* collide
• “Just Keep Swimming”
• 3D approach to living Faith
• Intermission
• Q&A
• Help from the Trinity
Our Journeys Converge at “Red Night”

7. A 3-D approach to
keeping Faith.

9. Presentation Pathway
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10. Our Journeys Converge at “Red Night”
Why are here?

11. Why are we having this discussion?
• parents are 1st
teachers of the faith
• some parents are not able/do not desire to FULLY
accept this role
• “the faith community welcomes you with great joy”
• other people care about you
• Catechism of the Catholic Church; 1253
• Responsibility – Universal Call to Holiness
• Lumen Gentium 39
• MT 28:19-20
• Sharing insight/wisdom is a responsible activity
• Someday your life of faith will all fall on you.
• Prepare you for the *WORLD* that awaits you Universal Call to Holiness,
sculpted by George Carr.
Basilica of the National
Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception

12. Why are we having this discussion?
• parents are 1st
teachers of the faith
• some parents are not able/do not desire to FULLY
accept this role
• “the faith community welcomes you with great joy”
• other people care about you
• Catechism of the Catholic Church; 1253
• Responsibility – Universal Call to Holiness
• Lumen Gentium 39
• MT 28:19-20
• Sharing insight/wisdom is a responsible activity
• Someday your life of faith will all fall on you.
• Prepare you for the *WORLD* that awaits you Universal Call to Holiness,
sculpted by George Carr.
Basilica of the National
Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception

13. Why are we having this discussion?
• parents are 1st
teachers of the faith
• some parents are not able/do not desire to FULLY
accept this role
• “the faith community welcomes you with great joy”
• other people care about you
• Catechism of the Catholic Church; 1253
• Responsibility – Universal Call to Holiness
• Lumen Gentium 39
• MT 28:19-20
• Sharing insight/wisdom is a responsible activity
• Someday your life of faith will all fall on you.
• Prepare you for the *WORLD* that awaits you Universal Call to Holiness,
sculpted by George Carr.
Basilica of the National
Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception

14. “…its still going to hit you right in the face.”
“Pay it Forward”

15. “Hitting You in the Face”

16. “Hitting You in the Face - subtly”

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God Impact Timeline – Roger Schroeder
- Your primary relationship

18. John Cavadini - “Ignorant Catholics” (Commonweal 2004)
 1 / 2 Number of natures in the Trinity
 1 / 3 guess at the number of Gospels
 1 / 4 Immaculate Conception ?
 1 / 5 knew what the Exodus referred to
Religious Illiteracy

19. Religious Illiteracy
John Cavadini - “Ignorant Catholics” (Commonweal 2004)
 1 / 2 Number of natures in the Trinity
 1 / 3 guess at the number of Gospels
 1 / 4 Immaculate Conception ?
 1 / 5 knew what the Exodus referred to

20. Religious Illiteracy
John Cavadini - “Ignorant Catholics” (Commonweal 2004)
 1 / 2 Number of natures in the Trinity
 1 / 3 guess at the number of Gospels
 1 / 4 Immaculate Conception ?
 1 / 5 knew what the Exodus referred to

21. Religious Illiteracy
John Cavadini - “Ignorant Catholics” (Commonweal 2004)
 1 / 2 Number of natures in the Trinity
 1 / 3 guess at the number of Gospels
 1 / 4 Immaculate Conception ?
 1 / 5 knew what the Exodus referred to

22. Religious Illiteracy
John Cavadini - “Ignorant Catholics” (Commonweal 2004)
 1 / 2 Number of natures in the Trinity
 1 / 3 guess at the number of Gospels
 1 / 4 Immaculate Conception ?
 1 / 5 knew what the Exodus referred to

23. I’m Ignorant – So What?
• Your Ignorance affects others
• Parents
• Friends
• Community [anywhere]
• Issues of importance
• YOU!
• making “the right” decision
• confusion
• apathy

24. “The Emperor’s New Groove”
“Uh... You guys are just confusing me”

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26. Rachel’sVineyardMinistries

27. I’m Ignorant – So What?
• The Old Man from Scene 24

28. “… you have to know these things when you’re King.”
“Search for the Holy Grail”

29. I’m Ignorant – So What?
• The Old Man from Scene 24
• Your SALVATION!
• MT 3:12
• Jesus give many descriptions of salvation and damnation
• He also gives us invitation to choose one from the other

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31. “…all that I have written seems like straw” | Aquinas
Before we do Theology
• Theologizing ground rules from St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-
1274)
1. Our words cannot come close to fully describing God
2. It is useful to discuss God (theology) so let’s do the best
we can
3. All our description have to be grounded in truth

32. “That’s US, Dude!”
“Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure”

33. “…your faith has made you well” | MT 12:4
“What is Faith?”
162 Faith is an entirely free gift that God makes to man. We can lose this
priceless gift, as St. Paul indicated to St. Timothy: "Wage the good warfare,
holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting conscience, certain
persons have made shipwreck of their faith."44
To live, grow and persevere in the faith until the end we must nourish it
with the word of God; we must beg the Lord to increase our faith;45
it must
be "working through charity," abounding in hope, and rooted in the faith of
the Church.46
• 44 | 1 Tim 1:18-19.
• 45 | Mk 9:24; Lk 17:5; 22:32.
• 46 | Gal 5:6; Rom 15:13; cf. Jas 2:14-26.

34. “…all life… all holiness comes from you” | Eucharistic Prayer
“Universal Call to Holiness”
Lumen Gentium - Dogmatic Constitution on the Church
CHAPTER V: THE UNIVERSAL CALL TO HOLINESS IN THE CHURCH
39. The Church… is believed to be indefectibly holy. Indeed Christ…
who is praised as "uniquely holy," loved the Church … that He might
sanctify her.(214). Therefore in the Church, everyone … is called to
holiness…
In other words…
We owe it to Jesus to try to be Holy.

35. “It’s love that holds it all together… I just had to let you know.”
Faith vs. Religion

36. Presentation Pathway
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37. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time we are given.”
“Fellowship of the Ring”

38. “The Faith of Your Fathers”
• This IS your Grandma’s faith
• This is NOT your Grandma’s faith
• You own it
• Make it your own
• What will you decide

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“My prayer for you is that it does not come to such an end.”

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41. “The wonder of it all is we’re still standing.”
“The Wonder of it All”
- Monday Morning
Video footage including:
Lou Brock Marta Vieira de Silva
Michael Jordan Wayne Gretzky
Kobe Bryant Sydney Crosby
Mia Hamm Julie Foudy
Diana Turasi Lindsay Whalen

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44. “The Wonder of it All (Next Year)”

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46. But its not always so simple

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Prayer
Teach Your Faith
Community
Word of God
Discipline
Ways to just keep swimming
More Prayer

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49. 1 Prayer
Discipline
Ways to just keep swimming
“All things are possible through Christ who strengthens me.”
• Memorized
• Spontaneous
• Adoration
• Simply in the Presence
• Locust Tree
• Devoting Your Day
• an action
• Prayers of Thought

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51. 2 Source & Summit
Discipline
Ways to just keep swimming
• CHRIST IS PRESENT
• Eucharist
• Word of God
• Priest Presider
• Community Gathered
• Unifying actions
• Amen
• Song
• Gestures
• Focal Points of the Mass

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53. 3 Word of God
Discipline
Ways to just keep swimming
• Catholics get a bad rap
• We hear much of the Word of God
through Liturgy
• Cycle A, B, C
• Our teaching is based on God’s Word
• Faith Formation
• Mass readings
• If you want to start reading the Bible…

54. “Reading the Bible”
• “How do I fit into this story?”

55. “Reading the Bible”
• Focus on a few Books
• Genesis
• Isaiah
• Gospels
• Paul’s Letters
• Hebrews

56. “Reading the Bible”
• Focus on the Stories of our Faith

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58. 4 Community
Discipline
Ways to just keep swimming
• Faith in Action
• Service to those less able/willing/fortunate
• Become a part of your faith Community Worship
• Don’t have to be perfect
• Just be involved
• Youth Group
• Got an idea?
• Share it!

59. “…its Possible.”
“Pay it Forward”

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61. 5 Teach Your Faith
Discipline
Ways to just keep swimming
• “The best way to learn something is to
teach it.”
• Siblings
• Parents
• Friends
• Through your Creativity
• Designs, Art, Music, Writing,
Building

62. “…we are all just dust in the wind, Dude.”
“Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure”

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More Prayer
Prayer is a Conversation with God

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66. “You can’t teach devotion.”
Devotion
Discipline leads to Devotion

67. Help from the Trinity
IS IS
IS
GOD
Father
Spirit Son
is NOT
isNOT
is
NO
T
• The Father, the Almighty;
maker of Heaven and Earth
• For us and for our Salvation
• The Lord, the giver of life

68. Help from the Trinity
“I will place my law within them, and write it upon
their hearts.” Jer 31:33
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or
the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.
MT 5:17
Jesus is written on your heart.

69. “Just keep swimming”
“Finding Nemo”