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Title: RELOADING FAITH


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  • A FAITH MATRIX
  • FOR
  • YOUNG PEOPLE
  • TODAY

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The Disease is Adolescence and the symptoms are
Violence, Suicide, Drugs, Alcohol, Car Wrecks
and Poverty
  • A headline of a recent Rolling Stone article

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Reflected in calling the present younger
generation...
  • ...faithless!

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Young people,I see you as the sentinels of the
dawn of a new hope...
  • ...Pope John Paul II
  • July 4, 2001

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WHY TWO SUCH OPPOSING VIEWS?
  • Society
  • all that
  • is negative

Church all that brings hope
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So who are you?
Messenger of destruction? Or Sentinel of
hope?
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What makes the difference?
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The way I see things...
  • The way I envision life
  • and the choices I make that is what makes the
    difference!

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What should I do?Do I choose life of death?
  • There is much in the world that is good but there
    is also much that is evil.
  • It is a MATRIX
  • Goodness brings life!
  • Evil brings death.

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What is Life?
  • Ultimately the answer
  • to that question
  • is a
  • FAITH
  • response.

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FAITH is where my heart is.
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Faith as MatrIx
. . F A I T H A S .
. . . F A I T H . .
. . . . . G I F T .
, , , V E R B . .
. C H O I C E .
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The Faith Matrix
  • Community

Attitude to life
Spirituality (living consciously)
Identity
Service
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Choosing the Faith Matrix
be happy
belong
Love
believe
be for others
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4 ways to reload the Faith Matrix
  • Belong to church

Find the fun
Spirituality Living in love
Believe in yourself
Reach out to others
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