The Australian Catholic Youth Festival is an event which gathers young people from year 9 to those aged 25 years. It seeks to celebrate the life of young people in the Catholic Church in Australia, providing them with an encounter with the Catholic Church in Australia. A key element of the Festival will be a listening process allowing young people to dialogue with Church leaders and each other about their joys and challenges.

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The ROPE (Rites Of Passage Experience) online resource from parentministry.net is an excellent tool for youth ministers, teachers, parents - or for anyone ministering to adolescents and their families. Watch this video for a review of this resource by Xt3.com!

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What's the big deal with Catholics and the Virgin Mary? Do they worship her or just pray to her? What's the Annunciation? What's the Immaculate Conception? What's the Assumption? All these questions and more answered in this short video by BustedHalo.com.

The topic of homosexuality and the issues around same sex marriage are very charged in our culture right now. The goal of this video is to communicate what the Church teaches about this topic. However, as the title would suggest, the underlying sentiment throughout the whole presentation is that the Church is a refuge of love for all of humanity. Those that would say that the Church is "anti-gay" are either misinformed or deliberately distorting the truth to push their own agenda.

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Do you feel like you don't belong at Church on Sunday? Are you worried about what people think? Take a look at this great video from the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston!

Ignite is a dynamic contemporary Catholic youth conference held in Brisbane for adults, teens and kids. It's about gathering young people from across this corner - encountering Jesus Christ and the Church, experiencing dynamic faith, being equipped for ministry and living the Christian life, and empowered to impact the Church and the world.

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We are broken from sin, but luckily that's not the end of the story. We have been given the opportunity to be completely restored, the way we are intended.

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Here are two Youth Group Games -

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Mark Hart helps high school teens understand HOW and WHY the words of the Mass are changing. Mark compares the “dynamic equivalent” and the “formal equivalent” of how we translate words from Latin to English, and then explains the elaborate process used to create the new Roman Missal. Finally, Mark challenges teenagers to rediscover the meaning behind the words we pray at Mass each week.

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The 6th YLFC is running 27 November to 22 December 2012 in Sydney!

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