Fr. Tim Lyons, LC is the celebrant for the closing Mass with the parents & participants.
In this final session Joel shares the greatest love is willing to risk it all. Joel's story includes taking a risk and plays a song he wrote for a relationship he pursued.
Joel shares about making a choice to miss his favorite NFL team in the playoffs to be present for the weekend. Every choice we make has consequences and as men, God gives us the ability to choose to Create, Cultivate, and Protect.
Martin guides us in worship and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament as the teens are encouraged to lay their lives, desires, blessings and burdens down before the Lord in the Eucharist. Joel gives a brief teaching on the Sacred Communion and Martin shares a testimony about the father's love in his life.
Joel goes straight for the jugular in this talk speaking about the redemption that Jesus Christ brings after the Fall of Mankind. Jesus restores us to be made in God's image & likeness. We have to shatter the false lie that the world offers and look at ourselves as God does, through the blood of His Son. We hear the story of a woman who was caught up in the sex industry and how she has found healing in Jesus.
The young Church joins Martin in worship to the song, "Good good Father" recalling our creation as children, sons and daughters of God. Joel breaks open Genesis 2 and the creation of Adam and Eve as equal yet different in their design. God places a responsibility of Free, Total, Faithful, Fruitful love within their design and love for one another and creation.
Worship leader, Jon Martin, leads us in opening worship & 2016 host, Joel Stepanek, breaks open the first session of this weekend as we look back to the beginning of God's original plan at the creation of humankind.
Jackie & Bobby help decipher what is pleasing to the eyes and ears vs. to the heart, by guiding the teens to look at modern music through the lens of Theology of the Body.
In this final session, Jackie & Bobby invite the teens to grow in sainthood and that the path to sainthood is one of triumph and not travesty. They offer some practical insights into to journey of a chaste Christian.
Sunday Mass celebrated by Fr. Joshua West, LC, with music provided by Jon Martin and Jackie Angel
In this workshop Jackie & Bobby give insight into the purpose of dating as a high school & college student and if you are called to date how to date with chastity.
Andrew begins with prayer, Jon brings morning praise energy with the song, "Deep Cries Out", and Jackie & Bobby break open the fall of mankind & how the reality of God's love is Free, Total, Faithful, & Fruitful.
Jackie & Bobby give testimony to being a masterpiece of the creator and how they've fallen short of that yet, in God's mercy he restores them. Fr. Josh West, LC gives a short insight into the sacrament of Reconciliation.
Adoration with worship led by Jon Martin
Rev. Joe Kim, priest of the Diocese of San Jose, presides over the opening Liturgy. Rev. Josh West, LC, proclaims the Gospel. Jon Martin leads us in worship for Mass.
In this introductory session Jackie & Bobby share their story of how Theology of the Body impacted their lives & how we are created in God's image & likeness.