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Understanding Today’s Teen

What does YOUR EXPERIENCE tell you about today’s teen?. Understanding Today’s Teen . Teens are searching The Church is in many ways surging with excitement and participation of youth. The Gen Y/Millenial. -- Are part of the “Me” Generation ( The Narcissistic Millennials by Sara Berman)

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Understanding Today’s Teen

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  1. What doesYOUR EXPERIENCE tell you about today’s teen? UnderstandingToday’s Teen • Teens are searching • The Church is in many ways surging with excitement and participation of youth

  2. The Gen Y/Millenial --Are part of the “Me” Generation (The Narcissistic Millennials by Sara Berman) --Their most important goals: • To be rich - 81% • To be famous - 51% • To help people in need - 30% • To be community leaders - 22% • To become more spiritual - 10%

  3. The Gen Y/Millenial • First cell phone generation; dealing with Internet consequences; • Over-stimulated; busy and distracted; identity marketed to them; • Marked by evil of 9/11 & terrorism; Iraq War and major natural disasters like… • The Indian Ocean Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina; • “Reality” taught to them through TV

  4. The Gen Y/Millenial is: • Rat race like their parents; think they are more mature than they are, thus they drink, smoke, party, etc. • LOST: materialistic; longing for purpose; extreme; often hopeless and depressed • FOUND: spiritually beginning to balance emotion & substance; • A very “bodily” generation -- tattoos, piercings, surgically altered, oversexed, underdressed, etc… • Primed and ready for the Theology of the Body • Princess Bride: Pre-conceived notions

  5. Introduction to John Paul II • Witnessed the smearing of the dignity of the human person: Nazism, the holocaust, communism, totalitarianism, economic utilitarianism, etc. • He not only saw this – he experienced it • Need for Gospel relevancy in the modern world • Male/female relationship: • “substratum of all ethics and culture” • Regain an “adequate anthropology” to reconnect men and women with our dignity and original purpose

  6. Introduction to John Paul II • Connect to the “echo” of original experiences • As well as each human heart and in our own experience • “Subjective turn” of modern philosophy – but points to Christ • Our teens face similar threats in different masks: abortion holocaust, 9/11, Virginia Tech, terrorism, false freedom of relativism, “religious” violence, sexual utilitarianism, etc.

  7. What is the Theology of the Body? • Pope John Paul II -- 129 short talks between September 1979 and November 1984 (135 total) • Building a “theological anthropology” • Who am I? (adequate anthropology) • How am I to live? (ethics & vocation) • Nature of the human person—embodiment, distinction, and dignity of men and women

  8. What is the Theology of the Body? • Theology (study of God) • of the Body (as revealed through the body) • The body entered theology through the “main door” when the Word became flesh • Philosophical, theological, and moral consequences

  9. Called to Love & Communion • “The fundamental and innate vocation of every human being is love” (FC, 11) • Today, “love” is confusing but JPII points us to Christ, the “main door” through which the body entered theology • Christ points us back to the beginning – “in the beginning it was not so” (Mt. 19:8) • “Echo” of Original Experiences

  10. Love is Relevant • "Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible to himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it" (Redemptor hominis, 10). • “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love” (1 Jn 4:8) • Love is man’s origin, his journey, his destination

  11. Theology of the Body: Part 1

  12. Theology of the Body: Part 2

  13. TOB for Teens Breakdown

  14. TOB for Teens Breakdown

  15. TOB for Teens Breakdown

  16. How does the TOB connect with teens? • We all need love and search for it; teens search as hard as anyone • They become frustrated, disillusioned and confused about the meaning of life • Most teens know they were not created “to be alone” but they so desperately want communion that they fall for whatever seems to promise it. Then, disillusion follows. • Seeking answers; but they “ask” in immaturity; the TOB connects their experience to faith and calls them to grow in love

  17. Why did we write this program? • Love, hope and freedom of TOB is meant for everyone; not teen friendly; inaccessible • Gospel in the lens of the TOB offers hope, redemption, love, freedom, communion, joy • The program bridges the lives/experiences of teens to beauty/truth of JPII’s vision for life and love • Teen Workbook Intro: Nick and Kristen’s story • Teens have a desire to understand themselves

  18. How will Teens be formed? • Why did God give us sexual desire? • What’s the difference between love and lust? • What does our sexuality teach us about God? • Can Christ bring healing to me if I’ve already “messed” up? • What is the “language of the body” and how do I “speak” it? • How can I discover my vocation? • How far is “too far”? • How can teens remain pure in our oversexed culture? • Does waiting for sex make marriage stronger? • Is there any hope for overcoming lust and pornography?

  19. Chapter 1: Created for Love • To explain God’s love for us and his desire to have an intimate, personal relationship with us. • To define “Theology of the Body” and show how our bodies teach us profound truths about ourselves and our purpose in life. • To explain that our bodies are “very good” and designed by God for communion with Him and with each other • To explore opportunities for deeper relationships with God and others • To recognize that just as a sacrament makes a spiritual reality visible, the body makes our call to love visible.

  20. Chapter 1: Created for Love • Interact • “How do you communicate this to your teens? (What do they care about?) • Feature #1 • Notes & Nuggets (p. 11L) • Feature #2 • Application - “PLAY-DOH” Activity (p. 13L) • Feature #3 • Application: God is the Magnet (chapter 3) • Sacramentality of the Body • Primordial Sacrament (prism)

  21. Chapter 2: Love Defined • To contrast real love that is “self-donating” with lust that is “self-seeking” • To explain the difference between abstinence and chastity • To recognize and explain why love is the only proper attitude (or response) toward another person • To measure the quality of a relationship based on “giving” versus “using” • To reveal that chastity frees us to love

  22. Chapter 2: Love Defined • Feature #1 • Story Starter: “Searching for Happiness…” (p. 21) • Feature #2 • Notes & Nuggets: Love vs. Lust Showdown (p. 25L) • Feature #3 • To the Core: “Love Test” (p. 28)

  23. Chapter 4: Hope and Redemption in Christ • Explain our destiny (eschatological man) as the experience of full redemption and eternal union—perfect “marriage”—with God in heaven • Demonstrate that Jesus offers us hope and healing from our pain and regret, past and present • Freely encounter God’s mercy and forgiveness for our hurts and sins through the Sacrament of Reconciliation • Explain that God has revealed to us the meaning of our existence through the “nuptial meaning of the body”

  24. Chapter 4: Hope and Redemption in Christ • Feature #1 • Icebreaker #1: “Crumpled Bill Demonstration” (p 52 L) • Feature #2 • Bridging the Gap (p 55) • Feature #3 • In His Own Words (p 66 L) • On The Hope of Every Day: “Here it is a question not of the eschatological hope of the resurrection, but of the hope of victory over sin, which can be called the hope of every day…. Man and woman, bound in marriage, must daily undertake the task of the insoluble union of that covenant which they have made between them. But also a man or a woman who has voluntarily chosen continence for the sake of the kingdom of heaven must daily give a living witness of fidelity to that choice, heeding the directives of Christ in the gospel and those of Paul the Apostle in First Corinthians. In each case it is a question of the hope of every day, which in proportion to the normal duties and difficulties of human life helps to overcome ‘evil with good’(Rom 12:21)”(July 21, 1982).

  25. Chapter 6: Language of the Body • To demonstrate how the body can speak both truths and lies without words • To judge the truthfulness or lies of sexual behavior • To analyze the “language of the body” as the “language of love” spoken within marriage • To explain how pre-marital sex, adultery, pornography and contraception all constitute lies of the body • Contraception disorders the sexual act by saying, “I give you some of me, but not my fertility; I receive some of you, but not your fertility”

  26. Chapter 6: Language of the Body • Feature #1 • Story Starter (p 82) • Feature #2 • Discussion Questions (p 83) • Feature #3 • Movie Clip: “Life is Beautiful” (p 90 L) • Name the different “words” spoken with the language of the body. • Which characters were speaking truths or lies?

  27. Reaching Teens with the Theology of the Body • Balanced, prayerful, holistic approach • Sensory experience, allowing them to learn with their bodies as well as their minds/hearts • Moving from disintegration to integration • From disfiguring sin to transfiguring truth • From despair to hope, brokenness towards healing, meaninglessness to deep purpose, utilitarianism to total self-donation • Giving opportunities to practice/incorporate what they are learning, and encouragement to be witnesses in the New Evangelization

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