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YOUCAT! our all enriching and captivating youth fellowship resumes with full vigour next Wednesday, June 01 2016 with discussions centered around LOVE, DATING AND COURTSHIP.

What an excellent opportunity to unravel mysteries and resolve issue bothering on these topics among our youths.

Do not be left out and please endeavor to come  with a friend.

HAVE YOU HEARD OF DOCAT - POPE FRANCIS

 I dream of a new generation of Christians - one million young people - who will be the ’Social Teaching on two legs’.“
– Pope Francis

DOCAT - The Official Social Teaching of The Catholic Church for Young People.

At WYD Krakow, Pope Francis will give the pilgrims a present,
similar to what POPE BENEDICT XVI did during WYD in Madrid.
This time the present is not the YOUCAT, but the DOCAT.

The content of the DOCAT tells you how young Christians can change the world through social and political action.
Pope Francis says: „A Christian, who is not a revolutionary in our times, is not really a Christian.“

The DOCAT is a program for revolution.
You will find this manual for change in an APP.
You will be one of the 200 volunteers who will present the DOCAT
on the stage and strike out, to convince as many people as possible of
the "DREAM OF THE POPE": "One click on your smartphone and you are on board."

The "200" will be young people from all around the world.
During the WYD you will live with them at an international camp.
Famous Cardinals and Bishops will visit the camp to motivate you in the dream of the Pope.

Then you will be on the move for a half a day each day as a special volunteer of the Pope in a blue DOCAT T-shirt during World Youth Day.

We will engage in discussions, share our knowledge, give of ourselves to serve and hopefully light a fire in the hearts of other young people. This will allow us to make the world a better place.

“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” (Helen Keller) Join us and accept the challenge!!!
July 21-30 2016.


For more info and registration please contact:
Johann Rhee on +49 821 410108-01 or johann.rhee@youcat.org.

Nigeria :
+2348025693293. ADC Youth Chaplain
+2348184848005.
Or cyonogba@gmail.com

WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN JULY

Sermon/Homily. Morning Mass, April 14. Message: WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN JULY.
A very good morning to y"all. Hope you dreamt well? We bless God for a new morning. Let us make this quick so workers make it to work early enough.

I will like to zero in on the events that took place in Acts 8: 26-40, our first bible passage this morning. The Punch line of that passage is  the Ethiopians reply to Phillip when asked "Do you really

ARE THEY READY?

Sermon/Homily, Morning Mass 7 April 2016. Message:  ARE THEY READY?                
A very good morning to you all. (Clears throat). Its the Memorial of John Baptist De La Salle, Priest. He Devoted himself mainly to educating young people in Christian Faith and introduced new teaching methods in other to enable them to learn and be formed as good

BRING BACK MY RIBS

Do you have a date for 30th of march? Do you have an appointment? Cancel it......All route should lead you to OLHR..oke Ira ogba...

NETGOLD BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL Powered by CBN

+A licensed aggregator company by CBN, NETGOLD BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL will be at our YOUCAT forum/fellowship. 

+The mandate of the company is to recruit and train agents all over the country for financial success, & how to utilize their phones as an asset for wealth generation and not a liability.

+YouCat (Youth Catechism) is exclusive  to youth & young adults only. 

+Wednesday 2nd March 2016. 7-9PM.

Why should we adore God?

Every person who understands that he is God’s creature will humbly recognize the Almighty and adore him. Christian adoration, however, sees not only the greatness, omnipotence, and →HOLINESS of God. It also kneels before the divine Love that became man in Jesus Christ.

Someone who really adores God kneels down before him or prostrates himself on the ground. This gives expression to the truth about the relation between man and God: He is great and we are little. At the same time, man is never greater than when he freely and devoutly kneels down before God. The unbeliever who is seeking God and is beginning to pray can find God in this way.

Every day, at sunrise and sunset, believers renew their “adoration” or acknowledgment of the presence of God, Creator and Lord of the Universe. This recognition is full of gratitude that wells up from the depths of their heart and floods their entire being, for it is only by adoring and loving God above all things that human beings can totally fulfill themselves.

POPE BENEDICT XVI,

August 7, 2005

Why should we petition God?

What role did prayer play among the first Christians?

The first Christians prayed intensively. The early Church was moved by the Holy Spirit, who had come down upon the disciples and to whom they owed all their influence. “They held steadfastly to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers” (Acts 2:42).

What are the names of the five main types of prayer?

The five main types of prayer are → BLESSING and adoration, prayer of petition, prayer of intercession, prayer of thanksgiving, and prayer of praise. [2626-2643]

What is a prayer of blessing?

MARY AND THE ROSARY

What are the words of the “Hail Mary”?

Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.

Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

In Latin:

Ave Maria, gratia plena. Dominus tecum.

Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus.

Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.

How do you pray the Rosary?

1. In the name of the Father. . .

2. Apostles’ Creed 

3. Our Father

4. Three Hail Marys

5. “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.”

6. Five decades, each with one Our Father, ten Hail Marys, and a Glory Be to the Father.

What can we learn from the way in which Mary prayed?

To learn from Mary how to pray means to join in her prayer: “Let it be to me according to your word” (Lk 1:38). 

Prayer is ultimately self-giving in response to God’s love. If we say Yes as Mary did, God has the opportunity to lead his life in our life. [2617-2618, 2622, 2674] 84-85, 117

Where faith in the Mother of God declines, so does faith in the Son of God and in the Father.

LUDWIG FEUERBACH,

(1804-1872), atheist philosopher

Call on Mary with devotion, and she will not leave your needs unattended, since she is merciful, indeed, the Mother of Mercy.

ST. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

(1090-1153)

Why can we be confident that our prayer is heard by God?

Many people called on Jesus during his earthly life for healing, and their prayers were answered. Jesus, who rose from the dead, listens to our petitions and brings them to the Father.

[2615-2616, 2621]

Even today we know the name of the synagogue official: Jairus was the name of the man who begged Jesus for help, and his prayer was answered. 

His little daughter was deathly ill. No one could help her. Jesus not only healed his little girl, he even raised her from the dead (Mk 5:21-43). 

Jesus worked a whole series of well-attested cures. He performed signs and miracles. The lame, the lepers, and the blind did not ask Jesus in vain. There are testimonies also of prayers answered by all the saints of the Church. 

Many Christians can tell stories of how they called to God and God heard their prayer. 

God, however, is not an automat. We must leave it up to him how he will answer our petitions. 40, 51

He [Jesus] prays for us as our priest; he prays in us as our Head; we pray to him as our God. Let us therefore hear our voice in him and his voice in us.

ST. AUGUSTINE

(354-430)

If you would really pray to him for conversion, it would be granted to you.

ST. JOHN VIANNEY

(1786-1859)

What does it mean to learn from Jesus how to pray?

Learning from Jesus how to pray means entering into his boundless trust, joining in his prayer, and being led by him, step by step, to the Father. [2607-2614, 2621]

The disciples, who lived in community with Jesus, learned to pray by listening to and imitating Jesus, whose whole life was prayer. 

Like him, they had to be watchful and strive for purity of heart, to given up everything for the coming of God’s kingdom, to forgive their enemies, to trust boldly in God, and to love him above all things. 

By this example of devotion, Jesus invited his disciples to say to God Almighty, “Abba, dear Father”. 

How did Jesus pray?

Jesus’ life was one single prayer. At decisive moments (his temptation in the desert, his selection of the apostles, his death on the Cross) his prayer was especially intense. Often he withdrew into solitude to pray, especially at night. Being one with the Father in the Holy Spirit

—that was the guiding principle of his earthly life. [2600-2605]

How did Jesus learn to pray?

Jesus learned to pray in his family and in the synagogue. Yet Jesus broke through the boundaries of traditional prayer. His prayer demonstrates a union with his Father in heaven that is possible only to someone who is the Son of God. [2598-2599]

Jesus, who was God and man at the same time, grew up like other Jewish children of his time amid the rituals and prayer formulas of his people, Israel. Nevertheless, as the story of the twelve-year-old Jesus in the Temple demonstrated (Lk 2:41ff.), there was something in him that could not be learned: an original, profound, and unique union with God, his Father in heaven. 

How are the Psalms important for our prayer?

The Psalms, along with the Our Father, are part of the Church’s great treasury of prayers. In them the praise of God is sung in an ageless way.

There are 150 Psalms in the →OLD TESTAMENT. They are a collection of songs and prayers, some of them several thousand years old, which are still prayed today in the Church community—in the so called Liturgy of the Hours. 

How did Moses pray?

From Moses we learn that “praying” means “speaking with God”. At the burning bush God entered into a real conversation with Moses and gave him an assignment. Moses raised objections and asked questions. Finally God revealed to him his holy name. Just as Moses then came to trust God and enlisted wholeheartedly in his service, so we too should pray and thus go to God’s school. [2574-2577]

The →BIBLE mentions Moses’ name 767 times—so central is he as the liberator and lawgiver of the people of Israel. At the same time Moses was also a great intercessor for his people. In prayer he received his commission; from prayer he drew his strength. Moses had an intimate, personal relationship with God: “The Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend” (Ex 33:11a).

OSCAR ONYEMA'S ADVICE FOR CAREER YOUTHS.

By Youcat Exponent ( Fr ozohjoseph)

I would share this with you without hesitation.

Recently named as one of the 10 most powerful men in Africa by Forbes Magazine, Oscar onyema came to prominence when held the positions of senior Vice President and Chief Administrative officer of the American Stock Exchange (AMEX).

Then he came to Nigeria to take on the role of Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. He has gone on to transform the face of the Nigerian Stock Exchange in this role.

The right attitude coupled with his solid team are some of the secrets to his success. Assistant editor of THIS DAY STYLE magazine speaks with Oscar Onyema on the affairs of the Nigerian Stock Exchange and his plans for the future. This one caught my attention.

Any word of advice for entry- level career youths?

Why is Abraham a model of prayer?

 Abraham listened to God. He was willing to set out for wherever God commanded and to do what God willed. By his listening and his readiness to make a new start, he is a model for our prayer.

Not many prayers of Abraham have been handed down. But wherever he went, he set up altars, places of prayer, to God. And so, along the journey of his life he had many sorts of experiences with God, including some that tried and unsettled him. 

EASY TO SLIP INTO, DIFFICULT TO DROP - BY YOUTH YOUCAT COACH

In the Youcat (Youth Catechism) Book no. 292 margin, the words of Soren Kierkegaard stands as a perfect introductory note to this short write up.
" If a man is truly to will what is good, he must be willing to do everything for that good or be willing to suffer anything for that good."

There is something about habits; it is easy to slip into but very difficult to drop.  Apart from the "Grace" of God  that will definitely see you through this year, *You need to be self motivated to get out of habits, habits that have become very dangerous for your system.
One of the keys to achieving defeat to your "bad habits" would be to

* Write them down, when you wake up each morning speak words of victory over them. Words are powerful.

In fact say to those habits; Pull a "francis otega" on them

"Now let me tell you som', Cos you don know norh, You know what you are: EP, Enemy of progress; Gerara hia, mahn, for real,

HOW TO PRAY: The Gift of God’s Presence

What prompts a person to pray?

We pray because we are full of an infinite longing and God has created us men for himself: “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you” (St. Augustine). But we pray also because we need to; Mother Teresa says, “Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on him, twenty-four hours a day.” [2566-2567, 2591]

Often we forget God, run away from him and hide. Whether we avoid thinking about God or deny him —he is always there for us. He seeks us before we seek him; he yearns for us, he calls us. You speak with your conscience and suddenly notice that you are speaking with God. You feel lonely, have no one to talk with, and then sense that God is always available to talk. 

DANGERS OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE

Youth Should Avoid Political Violence – Nwokeforo

by Clinton Inene

• News 

Ozoh Joseph Nwokeforo, Priest of Our Lady of The Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Ogba, Lagos has called on youths to be wise and not indulge in political violence as the 2015 election draws near.

He said they should be very careful and not to be manipulated by any politician.

“First of all I pray that we experience a peaceful election in Nigeria come 2015. We pray that it’s peaceful. The youth,

YOUTH MASS HOMILY EXCERPTS BY YOUTH YOUCAT COACH

Youth mass homily excerpts. 17 January 2016. OLHR, MCCC, OGBA.
1. Young People, Invite Jesus and Mary wherever you go they are the only ones you will ever need. 
(Wedding @Cana).

2. Jesus is all sufficient, Mary by the virtue of her position as mother of God, her intercession for us has GREAT power.

3. When youths listen to and do whatever God tells them the ordinariness of their lives becomes extraordinary.

4. Youths should be self developing, taking all opportunities

PRAYER IN CHRISTIAN LIFE

What is prayer?

Prayer is turning the heart toward God. When a person prays, he enters into a living relationship with God. [2558-2565]

Prayer is the great gate leading into faith. Someone who prays no longer lives on his own, for himself, and by his own strength. He knows there is a God to whom he can talk. People who pray entrust themselves more and more to God. Even now they seek union with the one whom they will encounter one day face to face. Therefore, the effort to pray daily is part of Christian life. Of course, one cannot learn to pray in the same way one learns a technique. As strange as it sounds, prayer is a gift one obtains through prayer.

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.

ST. THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX

(1873-1897)

The desire to pray is already a prayer.

GEORGES BERNANOS

(1888-1948, French writer)

Do what you can, and pray for what you cannot, and so God will grant you the ability to do it.

ST. AUGUSTINE

(354-430)

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