St. Leo’s Coffee House

St. Leo’s Coffee House Open to all incoming HIGH SCHOOL teens This Wednesday July 7th 7 – 9 pm Join us for a great night of: Live Music with our very own TOM YOUNG + OPEN MIC NIGHT (bring an instrument or your voice and show off your talents) Ping Pong, foosball and air hockey, plus board games and more. Plus we’ll have door prizes (including SILLY BANDS of COURSE!) AND OF COURSE– Frozen coffee and non-coffee drinks and desserts Cost is FREE YOU ARE WELCOME TO BRING FRIENDS. Call 724-9596 or email stleoyouth@gmail.com with questions. You can RSVP at www.facebook.com/stleoyouth and click on the “Coffee House” event page.

Steubenville Youth Conference 20.10

A few spaces still available... Hurry and sign up TODAY! The Steubenville Conference is the highlight of our summer at St. Leo's. We load up a nice bus and head out to Atlanta, GA. We stay in a very nice hotel, and have a great time plus we got to the Steubenville Youth Conference which is absolutely incredible. We hear great speakers who will entertain and inspire you. We hear some great music and have a blast in a concert style setting. We meet teenagers from all over the country. We eat a lot of food. We get to make lots of new ...

Middle School Day Camp and Service Week

St. Leo's Youth Ministry is excited to host EDGE WEEK - a week of service and inspiration hosted right here at St. Leo's. Incoming 6th - 8th graders are invited to join us for this incredible week. We spend our mornings doing service projects both here at the Parish, offsite at great organizations like - Second Harvest Food Bank, The Senior Day Care, Catholic Social Services, and more. Then - we spend each afternoon doing community building fun, plus some great retreat sessions with live music, skits, and games + plus some inspiring talks by great speakers. We finish out our ...

HIGH SCHOOL MOVE UP PARTY -COFFEE HOUSE STYLE

St. Leo's Youth Ministry is excited to host our annual Move Up party as we welcome in our incoming Freshmen and bid farewell to our graduating Seniors. DOWNLOAD THE FLYER HERE AND SPREAD THE WORD Join us for a great night of: Live Music with our very own TOM YOUNG Costume Karaoke featuring YOU and YOUR FRIENDS A Wii little ROCK BAND Tournament PLUS - Great FOOD and FROZEN DRINKS ALL NIGHT We'll also be giving away great prizes all night and there will be plenty of fun stuff to do. Don't miss out on this great night to celebrate! All incoming 9th - 12th ...

2009 Fall Retreat: Alive Again

We had the pleasure of having our 2009 Fall Retreat at the Vineyard Camp in Westfield, NC from September 6th-8th. We had an amazing time and each one of our teens really had a deep experience. The retreat was entitled "Alive Again" - and based on a poem written by St. Augustine entitled "Ever Ancient, Ever New". Here is the quote: Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things ...

God uses the Weak

by Lucy D'Agostino   Over this past weekend I have been struggling with many different issues, all centered around the same theme: I am not smart enough, old enough, influential enough, good enough, holy enough etc…to do [insert task here].  After praying about these various tasks, I heard something that made me rethink these fears.  A nun was standing on stage, nervously shaking in her little habit, telling us her story.  She explained that she was always under the impression that in order to become a nun you had to be strong.  She then explained that God chooses the weak and makes ...

Why is There Evil in the World?

by Lucy D'Agostino As Saint Augustine puts is, “If there is not God, why is there good? If there is a God, why is there evil?”               Over a cup of coffee in Italy with my professor the question “How can you believe in God and simultaneously see all this evil in the world” comes up.  This is not the only time I have heard this question.   In fact, I am usually on the asking rather than the answering side.  I put down my cup and ponder the answer. First, we must decide what kind of evil we are talking about. I ...

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