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Notes from Your Youth Minister:
(Karri's Blog)
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9/29/2008
This Sunday Fr. Roberto and Mike spoke about our call to stewardship,
our duty as Catholics to give back.
First I would like to share how proud I was to see so many of you
filling out your brochure wanting more information on the ministries in
the parish. If you haven't filled yours out yet, don't worry I'm proud
of you also. I'm proud that you are pondering the idea of giving back.
You've got to figure an entire homily on the subject and time during
mass to fill out the brochures must mean this is pretty important. Don't
you think? Well grab your bible and check out Matthew 25:35-45 Jesus
spells it out quite clearly how important it is:
It begins with: "For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was
thirsty you gave me drink ............." It ends with: "Amen
I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did
not do for me." Remember that Jesus is alive in all of us,
including the dirty homeless man down by the railroad tracks, the
children who's parents cannot afford to buy them new cloths or shoes,
the elderly woman who never has a visitor in the home, the man in prison
who everyday has to live with him crime and of course the people we meet
in school, at work and at mass.
I know that some people are easy to help, probably the school work
and mass people. Right? I challenge you to look at the hard ones, think
of what we can do for them and please: Don't turn your back on Jesus. Have a wonderful and blessed week,
Karri
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Meet the Core:
- Karri Reiser: Youth
Minister
- Years on Core:
1 year
- Why on Core: I always
believe that when God closes a door he always opens another. I had
reached a cross road when the position of Youth Minister opened up
and with prayer and encouragement from my friends and family I
applied for the best job I have ever had. I love sharing my love for
Christ with the world. God has put me in this place and I will be
forever thankful.
- Interests: Faith, Spending
time with my family, Scrapbooking, Card making, Reading, listening
to Podcasts, Harry Potter, The Twilight Saga and Baseball
- Favorite Scripture:
Jeremiah 1:5
- Favorite Saints: Our
Blessed Mother, St Rita, St Dominic, soon to be Saint - Pope John
Paul
- "To the true servant of God
every place is the right place and every time is the right time."
- -
St. Catherine of Siena
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- Natalie Freitas
- Years on Core:
1.5 years
Why on Core: I was in Life Teen from 1999-2003 and knew from
my freshman year that one day I would join the core. I wanted to
always be a part of the Life Teen family and be there for our teens
the way my core members were there for me. I knew who God was before
Life Teen, but it was through the friends I made, the core members
and parents who made it happen, and the experiences we shared that I
really started to KNOW Him. Life is
so much more beautiful and so amazing when you've found that
relationship. I want our teens to discover it too.
Job: High School French Teacher
Interests: Art, Music, Books, French, Family, Travel,
Exercise, Fashion, Crocheting
Favorite Scripture: John 14:6 "I am the way, the truth, and
the life."
Favorite Saint: St. Francis of Assisi, St. Joseph, St.
Thomas Aquinas
- Jose Carranza
Years on Core: um this is my first year
Why on Core: cuz I love this program duh
Job: I just started at Natures Bounty
Interests: I like break dancing lol jk I just like doing fun
stuff
Favorite Scripture: Joshua 1, 9
Favorite Saint: Sebastian duh
- Glenda Aragon
- Years on Core: 6
years(10 since joining the Life Teen Choir)
Why on Core: To answer God's call to serve him. To give HIM
thanks and praise for all HE has done in my life!
Job: Real Estate Agent for Keller Williams & Administrative
Assistant at IHM Church.
Interests: God, Jesus, Mary & the Holy Spirit, Music, Dancing
&
Singing, World Travel.
- Favorite Scripture:
Proverbs 3:5
Favorite Saint: Mary
- "God has transformed my life
through my ministry in Life Teen. I hope that by sharing my life's
experiences with the teens, I can share the love and mercy that God
has for everyone of us! I hope that my every day actions fulfill the
mission of Life Teen...........
- leading teens closer to
Christ!"
Mila Valdivia - bio to come
Karen Sterling - bio to come
Fr. Dismas Sayre - bio to come
- Deano Edward Mata
Cervantes
Years on Core: just a couple (don't want to look like a
lifer, lol)
Why on Core: help the teens, duh (and the free food, I'm fat)
Job: Financial adviser at World Financial Group (WFG)
Interests: God, wrestling, UFC, and long walks on the
beach...
Favorite Scripture: Romans 12:2
Favorite Saint: St. Stephen
"I am young, and a great leader. My faith and life can speak for it self,
and I've learned through my faith and life that, what ever you focus
most on, its only going to get bigger. If you focus only on the
negative in life, its
only going to get bigger, now focus on the positive of your life,
and the bigger that gets... I think Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., put
it best. "We die at the age of 25, we just don't get around to
barring anyone until the age of 65", and so on.... Don't give up on
your dreams. A small quote from one of my favorite well second
favorite
book, next to the bible; " Dreamers are
the saviors of this world"...
So dream big and don't stop.."
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- Marines Novoa
- Years on Core: 1 year
as PT Junior Core
- Why on Core: Giving
back to my family and hoping to make a difference in the lives of
many teens.
- Job: PT
Nanny/Therapist for a child with Autism and FT Student at St. Mary's
College
- Interests: Faith,
Music, biking and community service
- Favorite Scripture:
Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
- Favorite Saint: St.
Cecilia
- "Life Teen is a family.
Although I am not there every Sunday, or at every event, Life Teen
will always remain in my heart and prayers. Once I am dine with
school, hopefully I can become at FT Core member"
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- Katherine Kain (a.k.a
Kat)
Years on Core: 1 year as part-time junior core
Why on Core: Hope to touch the lives of future life teeners
just like Life Teen changed my life for the better in high school.
Job: Full-time Student at UC Berkeley; Other
job yet to be found =(
Interests: I'm a nerd. My friends are nerds. I like video
games, art, and film!
Favorite Scripture: Psalm 23 (King James version)
Favorite Saints: Saint Christopher (protects me in my journey
of life), Saint Catherine of Siena (patron saint), and I
occasionally pray frantically to Saint Don Bosco when I need time or
get somewhere on time.
"Life Teen is a family that once entered, can't lose. I have made
best friends, second mums/dads, brothers, and sisters. Life Teen is
a diversity of teenagers and adults who are some of the most
welcoming, caring, and faithful people you can/will ever meet.
Without Life Teen, God only knows where I would be, but thanks to
them, I am where I feel I ought to be in life."
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The core group has decided to put our ministry in the
hands of one of our greatest advocates for youth, Pope John Paul II.
Please join us in prayer for the success of our ministry
Prayer for the intersession of
Pope John Paul II
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- O Blessed Trinity,
- We thank you for having graced the Church with
Pope John Paul II
- and for allowing the tenderness of your Fatherly
care,
- the glory of the cross of Christ,
- and the splendor of the Holy Spirit,
- to shine through him.
- Trusting fully in Your infinite mercy and in the
maternal intercession of Mary,
- he has given us a living image of Jesus
the Good Shepherd,
- and has shown us that holiness is the necessary
measure of ordinary Christian life and is the way of
achieving eternal communion with you.
- Grant us, by his intercession, and according to
Your will, the graces we implore, hoping that he
will soon be numbered among your saints. Amen.
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