More than 600 students and their families participated in The Angel Foundation for Learning’s 12th Annual 5 km Fun Walk on May 6.
The walk raised money to benefit the Foundation’s Social Work Emergency Fund which assists Toronto Catholic District School Board students in need of basic essentials such as warm clothing, hearing aids, eyeglasses and Epi-pens. Here’s a shot from the event, via Rose Cutrara.
On May 3, the York Catholic District School Board held its first Vocations Awareness Day with the support of the Toronto area Serra Clubs and Serra Foundation of Canada.
During the event, about 150 high school students were invited to meet with vocations directors from various religious orders, with special guest Cardinal Thomas Collins in attendance. Here are a couple photos from the event.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus’ first major teaching discourse in the Gospel of Matthew, the Greek term agape is used when Jesus challenges us to extend the practice of love to even enemies. “Love your enemies…” (Matthew 5:43).
Here at The Catholic Register we are assembling our new team of young writers from across Canada for the 2012-13 Youth Speak News season.
Currently in its thirteenth year, Youth Speak News continues to help young people with an interest in media to develop their skills in a faith context. YSN offers its team members regular online workshops in different aspects of journalism and a weekly forum to display their work in the pages of The Catholic Register and this web site. This team has become an important outreach for The Catholic Register and has helped create a greater awareness of youth issues within the church in Canada.
Through the YSN program, youth will:
• Receive hands-on training in Catholic news media
• Monthly newsletters, online discussion groups and internet-based activities will
provide information on news, feature and opinion writing, photography and
newspaper design, as well as the issues of Catholic journalism;
• Gain an understanding of news production for newspapers, television and the web
• YSN stories will be published both in paper and online. And in collaboration
with Salt + Light Television, Canada’s only Catholic television station, YSN
members may even have the opportunity to assist in the broadcast and editing
process;
• Produce high quality articles and opinion pieces suitable for portfolios
• With the help of professional coaching, YSN members provide stories (one per
month) and columns (on a rotational basis) based on events, issues, people and
places that affect and influence their faith;
• Meet in Toronto for fellowship and fun
• A weekend retreat in Toronto offers YSN members a chance to meet fellow
journalists, participate in seminars, pray together and visit the offices of
both The Catholic Register and Salt + Light Television;
• Help people in youth ministry by sharing their own stories or ministry
practices, either through the pages of The Register or online discussion groups.
• If you are in senior high school or university we invite you to apply for our program.
How to apply:
We ask each applicant to submit a nomination letter by a youth minister, pastor,
or teacher who can vouch that the applicant has a demonstrated interest in media
and communications and is a committed Catholic.
Submit a resume indicating journalism experience e.g. school or campus
newspaper, yearbook, photography, relevant courses.
Click here to download our application form.
Mail, e-mail or fax the completed form along with your resume and nomination letter by June 29, 2012 to:
Vanessa Santilli, Youth Editor/Reporter:
1155 Yonge St. Suite 401
Toronto, Ont. M4T 1W2
vanessa@catholicregister.org
tel: (416) 934-3410 ext. 403
fax: (416) 934-3409
Twitter: V_Santilli
Rest-assured my heart is open,
Ready for the new.
My new spirit; everlasting happiness and bravery.
I am no longer sad.
I am no longer lost.
I will be known as His child.
My God.
Your God.
Our God.
I am ready for acceptance as renewal begins.
My heart flutters to the beat of a drum.
Hope is sweeping the room with good intentions.
Praying for the lost.
Fixing the broken.
Forgiving the past.
God will make us anew.
I am His child, one of His many.
All of whom He loves so much,
For He takes care of us.
Many Catholics can be categorized as “cradle Catholics.” They were baptized into the faith by their parents, have participated in the sacraments and have attended mass by their parents’ will–not necessarily their own accord. I am one of these Catholics. When one grows up in a certain tradition, it can easily be taken for granted and not fully appreciated. For instance, when I go to mass I feel that I am familiar with the biblical passages read. However, a Bible study course that I am currently taken has provided me with a fresh perspective.
In the course, the class is performing a close reading of two books in the New Testament: the Gospel of Matthew and Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. This course has made me more humble when it comes to approaching the Bible by making me realize that I cannot take for granted the familiar Scriptural passages heard at mass.
Although the synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) contain similar stories, they are also very unique. The authors paid attention to which stories, which details to include and also where to place the stories in order emphasize certain themes.
