So, My journey with lifeteen has been awesome. Not only did i meet some spectacular friends, i have done things that i never thought i would like going to Paris and drinking Doug’s spit!!!! It has been a great ride. I know that i wouldn’t be where i am in life not only in my relationship but in my life in general. I have learned things about myself through lifeteen that i will use forever. Like one thing to do instead of have sex is to lick someone’s face. Or that im a real bad dancer. The most important thing and most valuable thing i have learned is to be myself and love myself. I am getting better at thanks to the love and respect i am shown at Lifeteen. Thanks so much to everyone. Especially the seniors and core cuz they’ve been with me all four years. Don’t think that you youngins’ didn’t help cuz thanks to you also cuz i have made great friends in all of you. Thanks everyone I will miss you!

-Catie

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As in years past I will be posting reflections for this year graduating class about their experience with St. Cletus Lifeteen. Below is the first submission.

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Rose-Scented Beads

Things have been so hard on me the last couple of months and being under so much stress with school and work. My prayer life and my relationship with God has been so bad, it had really began to affect what I was doing with my life. Many things came and went but it didn’t seem like God was there. I came home from a weekend at Melanie’s house and saw a rose-scented bracelet rosary sitting on my bathroom counter and I wondered who put it there. I came to find out that my mom got it for me after she saw how I was drifting away from that relationship that I so longed and desired to have with God. I ended up putting on my keychain to my car keys and it reminds me everyday and everytime that I get in or out of my car to say a prayer. A prayer of thanks for getting me to my destination safely. Just any prayer, everyday I pray because of it constantly reminding me what I’m grateful for and what I live and strive for. I am beginning to bridge that gap in that relationship now with God and it feels great. Many times, it seems like it was Mary the Mother of God who put it my mom’s heart to get that for me. I continue to pray the rosary everyday. It has begun a new way of life that has me motivated and has me striving and longing to be in God’s arms one again.

-Sarah

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Lifeteen has been a HUGE part of my life ever since I was confirmed. I was sooo excited to go to lifenight, untill I got there and realized I didn’t know anyone. The only people I knew were older than me and already knew everyone else. But everyone came and indroduced themselves to me and I had a blast. I loved the people, the activites and the prayer. So after the first night I was hooked. Almost every Sunday from then on I went to St. Cletus for Lifenight. I would hang out with the people from Lifenight, and carry many things we did from lifenights to the other parts of my life. Within the first few months my parents noticed many new changes about how I acted. I was a much better person. I also felt like my faith was changing a lot. When I first started to go to Lifeteen my faith is what you would call a surface faith. Then a lot of events happened most of them directly related to lifeteen that changed my faith from being surface to a much stronger and deeper faith.

Lifeteen has changed my life sooo much for the better. I now have a strong faith life (or at least a lot stronget than it was). I also have a large amount of tools to help me to grow deeper in my faith throughout my whole life. I know I have an awesome support group for whenever I am feeling down or not strong in any way. Lifeteen has really helped me to learn who I really am. The main reason I was able to do all of this would be because of the people. I will truly miss all the people I have met throughout the years (all of you better keep talking to me when I am in college.) Everyone has taught me something different, and everyone has helped me to grow to be a better person in some way or another. I hope I have helped some of you in your own faith journey. And know that even though I will be a state away you will always be in my prayers. Of course if you ever want to come and visit me and Catie there will be a nice warm bed too. (and yes I will give up my own bed to anyone of you well except the boys but I will make friends that you can come down and stay with so don’t worry)

-Jackie

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We will be having lector training for anyone who would like to read at the Life Teen Mass. Training will take place on August 5th & 12th around 1:00pm, following the 12:00pm Mass. If you would like to become a lector you must attend both sessions. If you have any questions either post them here or ask me or Bob.

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Okay, so this is a bit belated…but whatever.

First off, I would like to say thank you and goodbye (a bit early…but whatever). You all have become my family and I will miss you quite a lot. My relationship with God has always faultered. It is often weak and so close to just completely diminishing. But Lifeteen has helped me keep that one strand of a relationship alive. Because of all of you I hold dear my Lord and savior and hope to never lose that. I am proud to say that I am a member of Saint Cletus Church.

As some of you may know, I tend to get into quite bad strains of depression. I find it difficult to love life even though I am surrounded by all these amazing things. You guys have kept me afloat. Even when things seem at their worst, I could come to Mass or Lifenite and life would seem all the better. I don’t know what I’ll do without you.

Lifeteen is a family that just keeps on growing. I have met so many interesting people throughout the years. I am glad to be a part of this large family. As a family, we have helped each other out in the bad, and enjoyed the best of life. I hope that all of you younger members find everything in lifeteen that I did. And I hope that all of you older members continue to grow with God and our family.

I am glad to have prayed with you. I am glad to have dined with you. I am glad to have met you.

-Carrie

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