ALIVE - A LIFE NIGHT ON OUR CALL TOWARD LOVE

LifeNight's are a mixture of faith and fun, and are open to everyone who is in high school! Each LifeNight has a fun game, a testimony or teaching about a different topic of our faith, discussion, and closing prayer.

At LifeNights you will be able to talk about a variety of issues and experiences with friends and young adult leaders so that together you can grow in faith and discover how a relationship with God will help you have the best life possible! This is an incredible time to connect with friends and God in the midst of our busy lives. Check out our calendar for the 2019/2020 School Year! 

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The goal of Alive is to explore why we were created. It discusses how we were created from love and for love, and that we are created to love. The Life Night challenges teenagers to be satisfied in God’s love and live extraordinary lives.

OLG High School Youth Ministry: October 2020 Events And Information

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October 2020 View this email in your browser Here at OLG our  High School Youth Ministry (anyone who has been confirmed in 8th-12th grade) is meant to engage young people where they are at in their journey to respond to the ultimate call of all of our lives: the call to be an intentional disciple of God.  In all of our ministires we bring the Gospel to young people by the art of living well - and it begins and ends with Christ. There are so many places here at OLG for everyone to get involved in order to share their gifts.  Contact us today to see where God is calling you! Our mission to Make Jesus Known and Loved hasn’t changed during these unprecedented and critical times.  Certainly it looks different, but our mission remains the same.  Please continue to live our mission with your prayers, service to others, and financial support.  Donate now.  THANK YOU!  Join our LifeNight on October 7, 2020 at 7:30PM!  LifeNight's are a mixture of faith and fun, and are open to everyone who is in high school! Each LifeNight has a fun game, a testimony or teaching about a different topic of our faith, discussion, and closing prayer.  Check out our calendar for the 2019/2020 School Year!  We are still taking registrations HERE!  Last week we had our FIRST LIFENIGHT! It was a great evening of faith, fellowship, and snacks! Our challenge for the week was to take these two questions to prayer this week. "What do you want your year to be? Just living or being fully alive in Christ?"  This week our LifeNight is themed ALIVE The goal of Alive is to explore why we were created. It discusses how we were created from love and for love, and that we are created to love. The Life Night challenges us all to be satisfied in God’s love and live extraordinary lives. We hope to see you there!  Can’t make our LifeNights on Wednesday night? Don’t worry! We have another option! On our Wednesday night LifeNights we will record our teaching and prayer of the night. Then on the following Thursday evening we will watch the video together over zoom, and have our SG online! Our Online LifeNights has resources, activities, and links to help our youth take that next step in faith right now, at home, or on the go! See more here... As with all OLG events we follow CDC, State, and Archdiocesan guidelines for health and safety. This event will be outside. In the case of bad weather we will reschedule.  Priest Residence Open House Open House - Sunday, October 18 We excited for the long anticipated completion of our Priest Residence, the first project to reach completion in our AOM Campaign. You are invited to come and see the new house, joining us in celebrating this big moment for our church and school community! You will have an opportunity to write a submission for the Time Capsule project and see firsthand the beautiful chapel that will house it. Social distancing protocols will be observed as guests tour the space. We hope to see you there! Please contact Jon Cassady at joncassady@olgparish.org or in the Parish Office (x9054) with any questions. OLG AV Production Ministry Do you have experience with audio / visual production? Or you are willing to learn? Our Lady of Grace is seeking to grow our audio visual volunteer production team. Learn from industry experts while helping to bring live and online events to life. Ages 13+. A great ministry for families to serve together in. Contact Kory LaCroix at korylacroix@olgparish.org for more information and to volunteer. Mass Volunteers Needed Due to our Mass attendance numbers continuing to grow, we have a greater need for ushers, lectors, greeters, eucharistic ministers and sacristans at our weekend and weekday liturgies. Currently we need 4-5 team members at every weekend liturgy to welcome parishioners, sanitize pews and guide parishioners in and out of the Church. See more....  Do you have a bounty of produce? Are your neighbors tired of the extra zucchini? Then bring your bountiful produce to Our Lady of Grace in a bag or box by Tuesday morning and put it on the “Produce Cart” in the Commons. We will take your fresh produce to a local food shelf to add homegrown nutrition to the items VEAP or STEP can purchase. Your produce need not be picture perfect, it only needs to be fresh and good to eat. We will continue collecting produce through at least the end of August. For an added bonus, bring your favorite recipe with your produce. Your hungry brothers and sisters will bless you and your green thumb! The parish of St. Albert the Great and Rebuilding Hope in Minneapolis is honored that our parish community has chosen them as the conduit for helping the underserved people of South Minneapolis. The destruction that happened at the end of May and into the early summer has deprived many of easy access to stores and pharmacies that provided food and household essentials. Special thanks to OLG volunteers Susanne Hoy and Alison James who have worked with St. Albert’s to help make this partnership possible. St. Albert’s volunteers have also taken food donations to a number of the tent encampments in northeast Minneapolis. We thank you for your continuing support. Many lives are made better because of you. 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Fully Alive

LifeNight's are a mixture of faith and fun, and are open to everyone who is in high school! Each LifeNight has a fun game, a testimony or teaching about a different topic of our faith, discussion, and closing prayer.

At LifeNights you will be able to talk about a variety of issues and experiences with friends and young adult leaders so that together you can grow in faith and discover how a relationship with God will help you have the best life possible! This is an incredible time to connect with friends and God in the midst of our busy lives. Check out our calendar for the 2019/2020 School Year! 

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What do you want your year to be? Just living or being fully alive in Christ?

LifeNights 2020/2021

LifeNight's are a mixture of faith and fun, and are open to everyone who is in high school! Each LifeNight has a fun game, a testimony or teaching about a different topic of our faith, discussion, and closing prayer.

At LifeNights you will be able to talk about a variety of issues and experiences with friends and young adult leaders so that together you can grow in faith and discover how a relationship with God will help you have the best life possible! This is an incredible time to connect with friends and God in the midst of our busy lives. Check out our calendar for the 2019/2020 School Year! 

Register HERE! 

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September 2020 View this email in your browser Here at OLG our  High School Youth Ministry (anyone who has been confirmed in 8th-12th grade) is meant to engage young people where they are at in their journey to respond to the ultimate call of all of our lives: the call to be an intentional disciple of God.  In all of our ministires we bring the Gospel to young people by the art of living well - and it begins and ends with Christ. There are so many places here at OLG for everyone to get involved in order to share their gifts.  Contact us today to see where God is calling you! Our mission to Make Jesus Known and Loved hasn’t changed during these unprecedented and critical times.  Certainly it looks different, but our mission remains the same.  Please continue to live our mission with your prayers, service to others, and financial support.  Donate now.  THANK YOU!  LifeNight's are a mixture of faith and fun, and are open to everyone who is in high school! Each LifeNight has a fun game, a testimony or teaching about a different topic of our faith, discussion, and closing prayer. At LifeNights you will be able to talk about a variety of issues and experiences with friends and young adult leaders so that together you can grow in faith and discover how a relationship with God will help you have the best life possible! This is an incredible time to connect with friends and God in the midst of our busy lives. Check out our calendar for the 2019/2020 School Year!  Register HERE!  Can’t make our LifeNights on Wednesday night? Don’t worry! We have another option! On our Wednesday night LifeNights we will record our teaching and prayer of the night. Then on the following Thursday evening we will watch the video together over zoom, and have our SG online! Our Online LifeNights has resources, activities, and links to help our youth take that next step in faith right now, at home, or on the go! See more here... Making Jesus Christ Known & Loved: A Parish Update Greetings! I have some updates regarding the life and mission of our parish community. As we begin a new year of ministry in our church and school, I have chosen the theme Just Offer Yourself (JOY). This is the joy that comes when we’re where God wants us to be. It is knowing that I am present to God, and that God is present to me and at my side. It is knowing that God died for me, and desires that I might dwell with him for all eternity. It is knowing God. Joy—a fruit of the Holy Spirit. So ask God for this gift. Not the joy that comes from drinking too much coffee; rather, seek the joy that comes from being with God. Experiencing this joy comes from living like Christ, who offered himself on the cross. When Jesus shared with his disciples his desire for their “complete joy,” he did so hours before his own Passion and Crucifixion. Who wants to have that joy that no one can take away from us, not even COVID-19? “I've told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete.” (John 15:11) Our mission remains the same: making Jesus Christ known and loved. It is why we are here. OLG exists to help others to know the love and kindness of God. This is the reason OLG has all the ministries that we have. This is the reason we celebrate Sunday Mass. It is also the reason we continue to improve our ministries, grounds and facilities. It drives our continued existence as a parish. Our mission can sometimes seem hindered. And, certainly, during these last months as our world lives under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic and social unrest, we as a parish community have had to pause, pivot, adjust and rethink our ministries many times. Our methods have adapted, but our mission remains steadfast. Amidst all the obstacles of life, there's a temptation to simply stop, to put our head in the sand and pretend the world doesn't exist. Yet that isn’t how Christ lived, nor how he would want us to live. Rather, like Christ, let us continue to engage our mission at this time with generosity, prudence, humility, creativity, kindness, trust in God’s providence, deep faith, hope, love and, above all, joy. In Christ, Father Kevin Finnegan Pastor P.S. A few weeks ago the full staff of Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church & School gathered for a Mass and Prayer Service commissioning us to the mission of making Jesus Christ known and loved in the year ahead. What follows is taken from the “State of the Parish” presentation that I shared with them. See more here!  Do you have a bounty of produce? Are your neighbors tired of the extra zucchini? Then bring your bountiful produce to Our Lady of Grace in a bag or box by Tuesday morning and put it on the “Produce Cart” in the Commons. We will take your fresh produce to a local food shelf to add homegrown nutrition to the items VEAP or STEP can purchase. Your produce need not be picture perfect, it only needs to be fresh and good to eat. We will continue collecting produce through at least the end of August. For an added bonus, bring your favorite recipe with your produce. Your hungry brothers and sisters will bless you and your green thumb! Copyright © *|CURRENT_YEAR|* *|LIST:COMPANY|*, All rights reserved. *|IFNOT:ARCHIVE_PAGE|* *|LIST:DESCRIPTION|* Our mailing address is: *|HTML:LIST_ADDRESS_HTML|* *|END:IF|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list *|IF:REWARDS|* *|HTML:REWARDS|* *|END:IF|*

Service Opportunity!

Many of our neighbors are experiencing food insecurity (hunger) as a result of the pandemic and civil unrest that has plagued the Twin Cities in recent months. To help keep them from going hungry, Our Lady of Grace has begun asking for sandwiches.  Please bring individually wrapped simple sandwiches to the OLG kitchen by 10:30 on any Tuesday or Thursday.  The sandwiches can be meat and cheese, meat, or peanut butter and jelly.   If you don’t want to make sandwiches, but still want to help, you can    bottled water to the kitchen by 10:30 on any Tuesday or Thursday. Thank you for participating in this important ministry of feeding your neighbors!

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August 2020 View this email in your browser Here at OLG our  High School Youth Ministry (anyone who has been confirmed in 8th-12th grade) is meant to engage young people where they are at in their journey to respond to the ultimate call of all of our lives: the call to be an intentional disciple of God.  In all of our ministires we bring the Gospel to young people by the art of living well - and it begins and ends with Christ. There are so many places here at OLG for everyone to get involved in order to share their gifts.  Contact us today to see where God is calling you!   Welcome to Our Lady of Grace Youth Ministry!  If you are getting this email either you have entered 9th grade OR you have a youth who has entered 9th grade! We are so excited to welcome you into our parish youth ministry team during the 2020-2021 school year. We are so incredibly excited to meet all of the youth and your entire family this year and celebrate our Catholic faith together.With COVID-19 we have been revamping what Youth Ministry looks like at the parish taking in Archdiocesan and State guidelines, we ask for your patience and support as we walk this road together and get to know each other better. I also ask that you be ready to jump in and be involved in the many opportunities that we will be offering throughout the year. If there is something we are not offering or ways you would like to be involved, please talk with us and lets work together to get you involved or make it happen. ANNNND Check out some great opportunities that we are offering below!  God Bless, Veronica and Kory LifeNight's are a mixture of faith and fun, and are open to everyone who is in high school! Each LifeNight has a fun game, a testimony or teaching about a different topic of our faith, discussion, and closing prayer. At LifeNights you will be able to talk about a variety of issues and experiences with friends and young adult leaders so that together you can grow in faith and discover how a relationship with God will help you have the best life possible! This is an incredible time to connect with friends and God in the midst of our busy lives. Check out our calendar for the 2019/2020 School Year!  Register HERE!  Join us on October 11th from 6 - 7:30PM in the Dining Room Room for a information meeting about our Peer Ministry Program. This meeting is for those who want to be Peer Ministers, OR are still deciding. During this meeting we will cover what roles and responsibilities that Peer Ministers have, time commitments, and some time for prayerful discernment. Registration/Interview Packet is HERE - this does not need to be completed before our Information Night, Packets will be available that night. Registration/Interview Packet is due 9/15/2020 Can’t make our LifeNights on Wednesday night? Don’t worry! We have another option! On our Wednesday night LifeNights we will record our teaching and prayer of the night. Then on the following Thursday evening we will watch the video together over zoom, and have our SG online! Our Online LifeNights has resources, activities, and links to help our youth take that next step in faith right now, at home, or on the go! See more here... Copyright © *|CURRENT_YEAR|* *|LIST:COMPANY|*, All rights reserved. *|IFNOT:ARCHIVE_PAGE|* *|LIST:DESCRIPTION|* Our mailing address is: *|HTML:LIST_ADDRESS_HTML|* *|END:IF|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list *|IF:REWARDS|* *|HTML:REWARDS|* *|END:IF|*