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We start on Sunday, Sept. 14th.
Lectio Divina resources
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2025/2026 Curriculum - Road Trip!
Our 2025/2026 academic year will be using 2025 Life Teen resources called “Road Trip!” This dynamic curriculum is designed to help teens navigate their journey of faith. This collection of topics anticipates common questions, issues, or objections to the faith and helps teens understand and embrace the Church’s teaching as the path to ultimate fulfillment.
The Church has long viewed itself and its members as pilgrims on a journey. Our “Road Trip” themed academic year brings the ancient idea of life as a pilgrimage to the 21st century. Road trips entail a sense of adventure and an openness to the journey at hand. At the same time, they remind us that it’s imperative to stay on the right path in order to reach the destination. We hope that teens walk away from this academic year understanding that life is a beautiful journey and that our faith, founded in truth, helps us stay on the right road. Each lesson within our year is titled after a road sign — a common object that we all see almost every day. By associating the truths of our faith with modern road signs, these common objects can serve as instruments of catechesis and daily reminders of the journey on which we’re all embarking.
Are you In high school and looking for other teens to explore your faith with, hang out with, or just accept you for who you are? Welcome to Illuminate! That is what we are all about! Come join us and see what we are about. No matter where you are at in high school, you have an open invite to join us. Start off in the fall or summer as a freshman and stick with us for all four years, or join us for the first time in the winter as a sophomore, or perhaps even join us for the first time a few months before you graduate from high school as a senior. No matter where you are, you are welcome - anytime. At Illuminate we do not watch videos or read text books (well, other than the Good Book) - we learn through discussions with one another. The discussions are fun, challenging, difficult, rewarding and thought-provoking. So come experience it - own your faith!
Why?
“Young people – teens – are under incredible pressure to perform. Intense expectations are placed on them. As a colleague of mine has suggested, social media appears to be all about social performance, creating a personality that isn’t real, and teens are experiencing a deep unhappiness about this. I think churches are in a position to create a social space where people can be accepted for who they are and not be expected to perform. I’ve seen some congregations that do this.”
- Christian Smith
Curriculum
Illuminate Youth Ministry uses Life Teen resources for our core teachings. Life Teen is an organization that provides extensive Catholic teaching resources. It us USCCB approved, and stats show that 35% of seminarians come from parishes implementing Life Teen.
What is Illuminate about?
Our ministry program focuses on:
Catechetical teachings
Leadership development
Community service
Exploring different forms of prayer
Praise and Adoration
Faith building and sharing
Social community building
Other benefits of attending:
Positive peer to peer support – teens will lead other teens
Discussion based learning/exploring (no text books)
Positive influences – mentorship with active Catholic adults
Christ-centered environment
Where and When?
We meet in North Room A (in basement of church) at St. Paul, North Canton 7pm – 8:30pm every Sunday!
Our 2025-2026 year will start Sunday, Sept. 14th and will go through May 3, 2026.
*No meetings on Dec. 28, Jan. 4, Feb. 8, March 22, April 5
Who?
Illuminate Youth Ministry is for high school students currently in grades 9-12.
For our summer 2025 events, we will welcome incoming 9th graders as well as all graduates of 2025.
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