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Speaking Out: Getting involved is a group effort

Speaking Out: Getting involved is a group effort

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The Catholic youth are the future leaders of the Catholic community, but how do we get youth involved? At some parishes that may be a problem, but not at St. Timothy’s Catholic Church in north Toronto. 

Participants at Rise Up pray over each other as they prepare for their mission “into the deep.”

Rise Up hits new heights in reaching out to youth

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Rise Up showed no signs of slowing down in its 20th year.

Speaking Out: Sunday Mass more than an obligation

Speaking Out: Sunday Mass more than an obligation

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Once upon a Sunday in Ordinary Time, I happened upon a church in Toronto. It was a pleasant — and all too rare — inconvenience to find the pews so packed that people had to stand outside the front doors just to hear the words of the Mass. At the time, it was a scene so unfamiliar to me that it made me reflect more deeply on how precious the Mass truly is.

Speaking Out: Plenty of time for resolutions

Speaking Out: Plenty of time for resolutions

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January 1 is right around the corner — to some, that means New Year’s Day. A time for clean slates, a fresh start and all the goal-setting. To the Catholic man or woman, it’s all that and the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.

Young Canadians were in abundance at World Youth Day in Panama in January. This group proudly let their nationality be known as they waited for Mass to begin along with half a million other WYD pilgrims.

Speaking Out: Goodbye 2019 ... hello 2020

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The year is about to end and as we begin to sit down and think about our New Year’s resolution we can recall and reflect over the events of the past year to help guide us along. 

Students, from left, Jeffrey Schiller, Maria Monai-Brophy, Katy Offenberger, Tanya Broschinski and Kellie O’Toole are a part of Catholics on Campus at MacEwan University, the first Catholic student group at MacEwan University.

Catholic students break new ground at university

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EDMONTON -- University is a time of major life changes.

Sinterklaas as depicted in the Netherlands.

Speaking Out: Traditions come in many forms

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Going through grade school, Christmas was always my favourite time of the year. 

The Seat of Wisdom College Instrumental Ensemble accompanied the Ecclesiastical Schola choir in an Advent concert at St. Hedwig’s Church in Barry’s Bay, Ont., on Dec. 2.

Music brings a calm note to a busy Advent season

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As the unmistakable lights and noises of Christmas began to fill the streets in early December, there was a sense of the inevitable — busy and stressful lives were about to shift into a gift-searching, crowd-pressing, agenda-filled circus.

Speaking Out: Advent calls for the extraordinary

Speaking Out: Advent calls for the extraordinary

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Advent is such a busy time of the year that what the season is all about can sometimes get lost among all the out-of-the-ordinary things that have become part the countdown toward Christmas.

Members of a youth group from the Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa, perform karaoke at the Thematic Village of the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis.

Teens feel the love at national youth conference

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Megan Davis, Elizabeth Eberhard and Allison Dible were fired up after the opening evening session of the biennial National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis, but it was only a precursor to what was to come.

Speaking Out: Keeping Christ in the season

Speaking Out: Keeping Christ in the season

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Taking time to reflect is one of the hallmarks of the Advent season, which prompted us to dig into The Catholic Register Archives to see how our Youth Speak News writers have tackled this special time of year. From the Dec. 19, 2010 issue, Jason Coelho, then a Grade 12 student at Brebeuf College in Toronto, presented his own timeless view of this special season:

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