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Music Camp
The Cathedral Boys' and Cathedral Girls' Music Camp
will
be held
August 9th-12th from 9AM-to 5pm
on the campus of
Centenary College
in the Anderson Choral Building.
This camp is open to boys grades 2-8 who have unchanged voices
and all girls grades 2-12.
These students will be encouraged to
enroll
in the Cathedral Choirs for the year.
To register: Call Justin Ward in the Church Office at 318-221-5296
or
Email
Justin
Summer Youth Programs
Totus Tuus Vacation Bible School
July 11-15
Music Camp
TBA
This is another version of a Vacation Bible School.
HAVE FUN and LEARN about the Church and Christ!
Handout - REGISTRATION
The Mission of TOTUS TUUS is to inspire in young people a true
longing for holiness, a deep desire for conversion, and a personal
renewal within the context of a stronger prayer life. Through
evangelization and catechesis, TOTUS TUUS seeks to foster openness
to sacrifice and the various Christian vocations.
To register: Call Church Office at 318-221-5296
or
Email us
 The
Grade School Program that TOTUS TUUS provides is designed for
children going into first through sixth grades in the 2010-2011
school year. During the week, the children will participate in four
classes each day, attend daily Mass, learn the Mass parts and
liturgical songs, participate in games, icebreakers, skits, songs,
recess, and prayer. The grade school program runs Monday through
Friday from 9:00am to 3:00pm.
July 11-16
7th-12th is
7:30-9:40 Sunday through Thursday
The children are encouraged to be clear and consistent in their
faith. They are shown how to view God as a Father. This personal
relationship gives them the confidence to be Christ’s witnesses in
the world around them. Finally, TOTUS TUUS shows the children that
the humble yet courageous desire to know God must be based upon a
steadfast and disciplined prayer life.
 TOTUS
TUUS offers evening instruction for junior and senior high school
youth (grades 7-12) during the week in the evenings. We have found
that vibrant, faithful, college-aged teachers can effectively impact
the junior and senior high school youth. The TOTUS TUUS High School
Program includes instruction, small group discussions, quiet
meditation, prayer, and fellowship. The team teaches in such a way
as to continually offer a dialogue - in which each person feels
respected in his or her most basic dignity.
The junior high students
will join the senior high students for the evening program. Their
classes will remain separate so as to provide a comfortable
surrounding and appropriate instruction.
TOTUS TUUS is a Catholic catechetical program dedicated to sharing
the Gospel and promoting the Catholic faith through catechesis,
evangelization, Christian witness, and Eucharistic worship. The goal
of TOTUS TUUS is to help young people develop their relationship
with Jesus Christ so that there is an intimate friendship whereby he
may lead them to the Father by the power of the Holy Spirit. To
accomplish this, we emphasize a devotion and love for our Lord in
the Eucharist and for Mary our Mother. We strive to help young
people understand their faith through catechesis so that they may
live it in today's world. We do this in such a way that it is fun
for both teachers and youth alike. A TOTUS TUUS teacher helps to
make the faith real to the youth as a way of life and love and not
simply a set of rules and obligations.
The program calls upon college students and seminarians from across
the United States to carry out this mission. Those hired are trained
and put onto teams of four (two men and two women) to go out into a
parish for a week, putting on a "parish mission" in order to teach
and inspire the young. They do this for seven weeks. In addition to
trying to communicate our faith and translate that into daily life,
we strive to foster Christian vocations. It is our firm belief that
vocations, callings from God, can only be heard and responded to if
one is living a Christian life. We strive to foster this, first and
foremost, in our teachers by providing them with an understanding of
the faith, a strong prayer life, and an opportunity to witness to
their faith. The teachers sign a "covenant" in which they promise to
be open to God's will for them and to actively discern God’s call in
their life. Because the teachers are striving to live an authentic
Christian life and are actively discerning their vocation, they can
better help the youth to do the same.
TOTUS TUUS is Latin for "Totally Yours." By these words, John Paul
II reminds us of Mary's total gift of herself to God the Father. It
represents our desire to give ourselves entirely to Jesus Christ
through the hands of His Immaculate Mother. Mary's "Yes" at the
Annunciation, and her total sacrifice and service to the Body of
Christ exemplify this total commitment. TOTUS TUUS, then, reminds us
of the tremendous and sometimes difficult call to spend ourselves
for Christ while relying on the intercession of His Mother, and to
preach the gospel to all those that we meet.
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