St.BensNJYouthGroup

****Attention Middle Schoolers, High Schoolers and Parents!!!!
📣It’s not too late to get involved with our Living Stations of the Cross project!
📣We need Actors, Readers, Musicians, Singers, to make our production bigger and better each year.
📣If you’re interested, please contact Mr. Ciro.
📣Earn Service hours.
📣Next Rehearsal is tomorrow!!!!
Thanks so much!
😊🙏🏼💙

Some of our St. Bens Crew at the Annual Blue Claws Faith and Family Night

Attention Parents & Young People***
Why should you consider coming to youth group this month?
“Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” Proverbs 27:17

Young people and parents are welcome to come explore this months topic “Culture: the good, the bad, and the ugly, and what Jesus has to tell us about it.”

As always, we’ll have time to socialize, and be community to each other.
Feel free to invite friends, bring snacks/drinks of your choice.
Any questions please let me know.
Sincerely,
Ciro

Give your best advice for middle school, high school, college, family, life, being a Disciple, Catholic, GO!

Dear Parent & Young People!
Get Spiritually Ripped this Summer with the Ascension App!
HIGHLY RECOMMEND the Bible in the Year Podcast, and the Catechism in the Year Podcast!

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Attention Families, & HIGH SCHOOLERS!
Awesome opportunity for a day of service, and community.
Contact me ASAP to reserve your spot!
Thurs Aug 3,9:00-5:00pm meet in Freehold.

I found Jesus! 💪🏽 😊💙🙌🏼
Took me a few attempts, and I was admittedly a little frustrated, but when I finally got it, I was truly elated.
I thought this was silly kids game, and then it hit me, like a ton of bricks, how Jesus waits to talk and listen to us every day.
Have a great day, fam. 🙏🏼💙

Dear Families, Parents, and Young People, Our Monthly Gathering is just a few days away. I hope you can join us 4:00-5:00 in the Church for Faith, Friends, Food and Games! Please let me know if you (& a friend) can join us! -Mr. Ciro

ATTENTION ALL MEN, YOUNG MEN, HUSBANDS AND FATHERS*****In the weeks leading up to fathers day please check out this podcast by Chris Stefanick “Blood Sweat and Tears” about Real Masculinity… available on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Please share or tag a guy you know to check this out today…Also, feel free to chat with me at Mass about it in the Gathering space to let me know your thoughts!

Dear young people & families!
You’re Invited tonight to the Pentecost Vigil! Come Holy Spirit🔥🔥🕊️🕊️
Please come say hello in the gathering space. Come check out the new Youth Bulletin Board.
DM me for with any questions!
Sincerely,
Ciro

ATTENTION St. Bens family and friends! One of our own needs your help! St. Bens alum Grace Huegel aspires to join the Salesian Sisters and she needs our help and support! Please be generous! Please share this important cause! 💙🙏🏼😊

Attention high schoolers, college students (& parents), Bob Cognat is seeking Part Time Custodial Assistance this Summer. Please let us know if you’re interested or if you have any questions!- Ciro

An interesting word, “Behold”. It means “to see” “to observe” “to notice.”
In this Sunday’s Gospel passage Jesus tells us “Behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
Although Jesus Ascends and returns to heaven, he promises to not make us orphans… he promises us to send us the Advocate, the Spirit, at Pentecost…
And if we “Behold” the world around us, how will this change things?
What will we see?
What will we notice?
What will we observe?
Will we see the Spirit working in and through others? Will we see that we are temples of the Holy Spirit?

An interesting word, “Behold”. It means “to see” “to observe” “to notice.”
In this Sunday’s Gospel passage Jesus tells us “Behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
If we “Behold” the world around us, how will this change things?
What will we see?
What will we notice?
What will we observe?
Will we see the Spirit working?

Uniting our hearts and minds with all the moms, grandmoms, and even our “spiritual mothers”, all the special women in our lives that play this most important role of “mother” to us. God Bless and thank you for your dedication and selfless love. May we learn to love and live like you always. 🙏🏼💙😊

Dear Parents and Young People,
We live in a noisy world. I’d like to personally invite your son(s) and daughter(s) to an hour away from our routines to gather at the Church to be fed socially, and spiritually…
I hope you can join us this month any of the 3rd Wednesdays of the month. 4-5pm.
Any questions please let me know. Also, please feel free to bring a friend!
To rsvp just send me a message or send me an email [email protected]

Happy Easter to everyone!
Lord, you are our hope and our joy.
“Melt the clouds of sin and sadness,
Drive the dark of doubt away.
Giver of immortal gladness.
Lead us to the light of day.”
😊🙌🏼🙌🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

“Jesus, remember me, when you come into your kingdom. Jesus, remember me, when you come into your kingdom.”

Great job to the youth last night leading the Stations of the Cross at 7:00PM.

If you missed us, we will lead again on Wednesday, March 29th, @5:00pm, hope you can come pray with us! 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Attention High Schoolers!
Please join us at St Bens this Saturday @2:00 for a social, followed by a service project afterwards!
We’ll be sorting food donations and then getting ready to run game tables for families who come to the “We Give Thanks” Family Day from 3:30-5:00, and we need your help to run the 30 tables of families!
Please let me know if you can come!
Feel free to invite a friend!
🙏🏼😊

“May your grace, O Lord, we pray, at all times go before us and follow after and make us always determined to carry out good works. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.”

It was a great start to our 8th Grade Confirmation Prep sessions last night talking What the Sacrament is; what God does to us through the Sacrament, how our Identity is affected, how it is not optional, we’re all called to a spiritual maturity that is not tied to a number of age.
We also studied and prayed St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians 6, considering how to “equip ourself with the Belt of Truth, the Breastplate of Righteousness, the Sandals of peace, the Helmet of Salvation, the Shield of Faith, and the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God!”

Looking forward to our Retreat next week!
Peace and Blessings!

Read below to find out who the author was!
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All four quotes are from The Diary of Anne Frank. She was 13 years ago when she began her diary.

Hope you enjoyed these great quotes by this young person!

Attention High Schoolers!
Join us on Zoom for CYO meeting @8:00pm tonight Wednesday 8/31 to go over upcoming Calendar events! Meeting ID: 978 9503 6367
See email or DM us for passcode!
🙏🏼😊

Grateful for a restful summer, and looking forward to a new school year ahead, we invite all middle schoolers grades (6-8) to come to our CYO Kick Off event for the year.
We'll be playing Slip-n-Slide
Kickball Saturday, Sept 17 @3:00-4:00pm. Location: Baseball field
Rain Date: Wed. Sept 21, 4:00pm
What to wear: t shirt & bathing suit/clothes you don't mind getting wet and dirty
We're looking to start the year off with a really great, fun event.
First, we'll have some snacks & drinks while enjoying some music and fresh air. Then, we'll pick teams by randomly drawing different colored bubble gum sticks.
Next, we'll play Slip-N-Slide Kick Ball (Parents are invited to stay and join in the fun!)
Finally, we'll leave the young people with Sending Forth message & prayers for the school year.
Sending Forth Message & Scriptural Focus:
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, [then] I will enter his house and dine with him, and he with me” (Revelation 3:20)

Dear Middle Schoolers,

Grateful for a restful summer, and looking forward to a new school year ahead, we invite all middle schoolers grades (6-8) to come to our CYO Kick Off event for the year.
We'll be playing Slip-n-Slide
Kickball Saturday, Sept 17 @3:00-4:00pm. Location: Baseball field
Rain Date: Wed. Sept 21, 4:00pm
What to wear: t shirt & bathing suit/clothes you don't mind getting wet and dirty
We're looking to start the year off with a really great, fun event.
First, we'll have some snacks & drinks while enjoying some music and fresh air. Then, we'll pick teams by randomly drawing different colored bubble gum sticks.
Next, we'll play Slip-N-Slide Kick Ball (Parents are invited to stay and join in the fun!)
Finally, we'll leave the young people with Sending Forth message & prayers for the school year.
Sending Forth Message & Scriptural Focus:
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, [then] I will enter his house and dine with him, and he with me” (Revelation 3:20)

See email to RSVP OR DM us here!

Next Tuesday, Service Opportunity at St. Barnabas Church in Bayville, NJ. Drop Off 9:30 Pick up 5:00, register your child on Diocese of Trenton website. Also, I’ll send email with link to webpage! It will be a great day!

Happy Father’s Day!
Celebrating all fathers, or father figures, grandfathers, uncles, and positive role models in our lives! In a special way we celebrate our priests who lead, care for, and nourish our spiritual families throughout our lives. Happy Father’s Day!

What fills your cup?
-the news?
-work?

This is something we discussed at St Bens Young Adults Theology on Tap at The Court Jester this past Friday night.

We also looked for inspiration from the life of St. John Paul The Great.

Looking forward to gathering again in July!

John 10:10 “I came that they might have life, and have it more abundantly.”

Yesterday, at our Middle School CYO Social we considered that God didn’t come just to give us rules…. He came to give us LIFE! And JOY! We enjoyed a Hawaiian Beach Bash.

Thanks to all who came out, and to our Core team for their ongoing service to our young people.

We hope you can join us next month for our Issue Night on Social Media.
We’ll explore the good, the bad, and the ugly. & (We’re gonna play Jeopardy: Social Media Special Edition). Parents and friends are invited to join in on the game and discussion!