REGISTER FOR YOUTH MINISTRY and get a free t-shirt at our Fall Kickoff Meeting — Welcome ALL middle and high school teens! Please join us and take a moment to register using the button below. This form is available for all junior and senior high teens, including current 6th graders and new families and parishioners. We look forward to seeing you soon!

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ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA YOUTH MINISTRY

St. Catherine of Siena Youth Ministry Mission Statement

"Foster a group of compassionately engaged teenagers who are energized for service, open to spiritual growth, willing to build a community in the context of faith, frienship and fun."

Who: Any middle school or high school student is welcome

Why: A place to make new friends and connect with old friends that share your faith and have similar values. 

What: Our youth ministry program provides a safe and fun environment in which teens can spend time with their friends, make new ones, and build relationships. At our events, we offer games, service projects and events (Confirmation hours can be earned), small groups, Teen Weekend Away (TWA) (senior high) retreat, and a chance to foster spiritual growth and deepen your relationship with Christ.

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Updated October 1st,  2023

Senior High

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7th—ONCE UPON A BOOK at 5:45 p.m. in Russell Hall-Join us tonight as YM pilots a new program—our storytime hour for children. Teens will read to our younger parishioners during this teen-led storytime. Storytime will last 30-40 minutes, then we will head to pizza dinner in Canton. We will leave St. Catherine no later than 7 p.m. and return approximately 8:45-9 p.m. To sign up to read, distribute a snack, or to sit with the children (3-8 years old), please use this link: https://bit.ly/3RCPMav

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8th—COOK FOR LOCAL FAMILIES IN NEED—5:30-8 p.m. in Russell Hall. All teens are invited to join us for an evening out cooking with us. NO EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY BUT YOU MUST SIGN UP EARLY. PARENT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TOO. Please use the same link to sign up: https://bit.ly/3PQJAu1

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14th—Sean Forrest in Concert for Haiti—We will carpool and leave St. Catherine at 6:15 p.m. for a 7 p.m. concert start time. Concert ends at 9 p.m., so we will return to St. Catherine of Siena at 9:30 p.m.. Sean Forrest founded Haiti180 to help serve the poorest of the poor in Haiti through its orphanage, school, nursing home and elderly care and more. Join us tonight for this fantastic concert. Tickets are free to Youth Ministry teens and there are only a limited number of tickets, so sign up early! Please use this link to register: https://bit.ly/3LAS2ei

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15th—’WE’RE IN-IT-TO-WIN-IT”: PARENTS V TEENS! from 5:30-8 pm in Russell Hall. Let the competition begin with some hilarious challenges between teens and parents. A “trophy” to be awarded to the group that best steps up to the challenge! ALL PARENTS ARE INVITED! WE NEED YOU TONIGHT TO MAKE IT WORK!!! AND BRING YOUR PHONES too. Pizza dinner will be served. Please use this link to register: https://bit.ly/48wqvVs

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Junior High

THIS MONDAY, OCTOBER 2nd , we will be CARVING OUT SOME FUN in Russell Hall from 6-8 p.m. Light refreshments will be served, and PARENT VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED. “Howl-o-ween” is just around the corner, and we will enjoy a “ghostly get-together” as we are just “dying” to see you! We will work on our Candy Corn service project (earn Confirmation Service Hours) and will have a “fang-tastic” snack feast too. Be sure to sign up early as supplies are limited. Parents can sign up using the same link: https://bit.ly/3rje9iF

Follow us on Instagram at stcatherine_youthministry Fall calendars are available in the Atrium and Vestibule

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2023 Youth Ministry Boston Mission Trip

Please enjoy this brief video from the Youth Ministry Boston Mission Trip this year. You will see our teens hard at work at Rosie's Place (the first women's shelter in the US created in 1974), the Friday Cafe (a community gathering place in Cambridge, MA for the homeless and underserved, where all volunteers or the homeless are treated as "guests", can receive a hot homemade meal and clothing donations), Woods Mullen Shelter - where we distributed more than 40 prayer shawls to the women and we played bingo, and The Outdoor Mass, the homeless attend Mass at a T-stop because they do not feel welcome in a regular church, where the remaining prayer shawls were distributed.

 

Please follow us on Instagram at stcatherine_youthministry and on Facebook at St. Catherine of Siena Youth Ministry – our picture is a blue anchor within an orange circle