Why Your Youth Group Isn’t Growing (According to Pope Francis)

Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today we break down the apostolic exhortation from Pope Francis, Christus Vivit, or “Christ is Alive”. This 9-part document addresses the Pope’s response to the 2018 synod on the topic of youth group and young adults and can be grouped into three parts:

1.) Putting Christ at the Center
2.) Applying a Christocentric Worldview to Youth Group
3.) Discernment and Vocation

We each share our number one practical takeaway from the document, and discuss the need for youth ministers to be mentors, brothers, and teachers—not friends.

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“Satan’s youth group is so much bigger than ours”

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0:00.0	Mature catechesis is an ever deepening of the charygima.
0:04.3	You never leave it behind.
0:26.9	Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Knees Shall Bow, your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization.
0:29.5	My name is Mike Gomer Gormley, and I am.
0:32.0	I am indeed joined by my co-host.
0:35.2	Dave, where in the world is Dave Am Vickle?
0:35.7	How you doing, Dave?
0:36.8	Oh, man, I'm okay.
0:38.4	I'm happy to see your face, Gomer. I'm happy to see your face right now. Yeah, I know. It's been too long. Most,
0:42.8	most people are. Yeah, most people are. Uh, yeah, it's, it's been too long. I've had a whirlwind
0:50.3	summer. Actually, today was my son Sam's first day of seventh grade. So it was first day of
0:56.1	school at our house. Really? For just Sam and then next week the rest of the kids will go. But I'm
1:01.6	sad. I hate when they go back to school. I want my family to all be in one room for the rest of my
1:06.9	life. I saw a weird The Learning Channel TLC documentary of a family that sleeps together.
1:16.5	Oh yeah.
1:16.8	And the guy basically, I know it's a thing, but this guy and I, okay, but that could not be
1:23.4	more the opposite of my family.
1:24.7	Oh yeah.
1:25.2	Me too.
1:25.6	But he built a custom bed that is his,
1:29.6	the master bedroom is a giant bed. Yeah. So they got like eight mattresses,
1:34.3	I just remember being like, oh no, that's not my life. I can't wait for my kids to go to bed.
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