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10 Videos to Start Conversation

Youth Groups and Young Adult Meetings can sometimes start slow.  Maybe you have exhausted your ideas or opening skits?  Here are some Catholic videos that deal with Mary, the Pope, Catholic Music, Pro-life and more.

After your opening ice breakers, follow with a short movie.  If you don’t have the internet in your room, download the video to your laptop first.  These are also great to send along in your emails to members.  An easy way to evangelize.

10 Catholic Videos To Open Youth Group and Young Adult Ministry

Bob Rice and the Adulterous Women

Who I thought Jesus Was

Tony Melendez plays “Let It Be”

Fr. Stan Fortuna – EVERYBODY GOT TO SUFFER

Franciscan Unversity Napoleaon Dynamite Dance

Margaret Sanger, Planned Parents Founder

Padre Pio Celebrates Mass

The Miracle of Fatima Movie

John Paul II Pictures

Marian Apparitions in Garabandal, Spain

Let me know how you use them!

God Bless,
Jason Buck

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Bring People Back to Mass

IMG_2524CatholicsComeHome.org,  run by Tom Peterson, produces fantastic Catholic commercials.  I have worked with Tom on projects in the past.  He is a practicing Catholic who takes his faith seriously.

If you are interested in bringing more Catholics back to Mass, have seen a rapid decrease in mass participation, or want to engage in an evangelization effort in your area contact Tom.

While I was teaching in a Catholic school I would use these commercials as openers to talks; however, their best use would be across a diocese.

Inspired by the Holy Father’s call to a new evangelization, Catholics Come Home reaches out to inactive Catholics with inspiring TV commercials and an interactive Web site.

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“Six months after the CatholicsComeHome.org media campaign ended, a comprehensive analysis was conducted, which revealed the average increase in Mass attendance (returned Catholics, new converts) was 12 percent, even though population growth in the Diocese of Phoenix was flat during that period. This equates to an increase of as many as 92,000 souls who came home!”

Ryan Hanning
Director of Adult Evangelization, Diocese of Phoenix

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If you are interested in donating to the project: click here.

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Pro-life Videos for Youth and Young Adults

There are a myriad of resources to educate youth and young adults on the pro-life topics; however, some are better than others.  While at Franciscan University, I saw a number of young people take part in grass root movements using media to spread the Gospel of Life…ie. The Culture of Life that John Paul II proclaimed.

Our young people in the Catholic Church are accomstumed to audio/video education.  Here are some professional examples from CatholicVote.org on proclaiming the Culture of Life.

I have put their work up before and will continue because I am so impressed with what they produce.

Open a youth night with these videos or begin a young adult meetings to help facilitate discussion.

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Abortion is sadly the most common surgical procedure in America today. For CatholicVote.org and tens of millions of Americans, the right to life is the greatest civil rights issue of our day. Pope John Paul the Great put it succinctly when he said: “the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights — for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture — is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition of all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination.”

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Catholic Vote Action – Young Adult Ministry

Grassroots initiatives are often highly successful, cost little, and make a huge impact.  CatholicVoteAction.org has launched an impressive campaign against the dangers of the current Health Care Reform.  Using logic, ‘humor,’ and facts they mount a convincing argument using modern day media…ie. youtube

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As our name suggests, CatholicVoteAction.org is proudly Roman Catholic, but we also are proud to count thousands of members of other faith traditions, and even a few agnostics and atheists as fellow members. What we believe is not exclusive to any religious faith. America´s founding principles that uphold the dignity of life, the centrality of the family, and the importance of religion and morality are not Catholic things – they belong to anyone who is human because they are true! These are the truths that bind all Americans beginning with our Declaration of Independence.

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This video would make for a great opener at a young adult event.  This ‘hot’ topic demands education for our young catholic executives and families.  In addition the topic will intrigue people to come.  Just make sure you have a qualified speaker to lead discussion.

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Divine Mercy Lesson

Here are a list of videos from youtube to help with a Divine Mercy Lesson Plan.  If you are hosting a youth event, young adult group, or parish event these will be very useful.

Make sure you have a projector, speakers, and computer.

The message of The Divine Mercy is simple. It is that God loves us — all of us. And, he wants us to recognize that His mercy is greater than our sins, so that we will call upon Him with trust, receive His mercy, and let it flow through us to others. Thus, all will come to share His joy.

For more information http://thedivinemercy.org/message/

Here is a series of videos on Divine Mercy by EWTN

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More Divine Mercy Videos

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This next video is ok.  Maybe take part of it and edit it with your own background music.

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Father Don Calloway – Short conversion story about an amazing priest.  Divine Mercy had a large impact on his conversion.

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Second part of Father Don Calloway

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This message of Divine Mercy is powerful for all.

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