Welcome Chaplains

Come to the Water!

√ To do list:Planning suggestions with timelines:

• Place retreat dates on school calendar & Website-June for the following year• Establish budget-June • Book venue 6 months in advance (Remember others are doing the same)• Book buses 3-4 months in advance• (Retreat Facilitator if required) 6 months in advance• Priest for Liturgical Celebration 3-4 months in advance• Fill out requisite school field trip forms- 2 months in advance• Make luncheon arrangements- 1-2 months in advance• Permission letter to parents/guardians 3 weeks in advance• Letters to Peer Ministers who may be accompanying you 3 weeks in advance• Establish date for signed permission forms and monies collected-2 weeks in advance• Arrangements made for students who need assistance (Special Needs…financial assistance)

(2 months in advance)• Arrange EA support if needed-One month in advance• Notify office of teacher coverage required- one month in advance

Spending the day…”Working together, praying together, playing

together”

Introduce Retreat Theme-Becoming a Disciple

Opening PrayerThank you Lord for this dayAnoint us with your Spirit Jesus that we might bring good news to the oppressed, bind up the broken hearted, and proclaim release to the captive. Give us a new urgency and a new commitment to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, and visit those who live in isolation.

Help us to reach out to those whom no one else will touch, to accept the unacceptable, and to embrace the enemy. Surround us with your love, fill us with your grace, and strengthen us for your service.Bless us this day as we strive to grow in love and service to one another.

Opening Prayer

• Student led…

• Prayer of Praise & Thanksgiving• Asking God’s blessings for the day

Outlining Expectations

A time for mutual respect

Go over basic rules for the day

On a need to know basis

“If music be the food of love…play on”

• Have music playing as students arriving

“This is gonna be the best day of my life (American Authors)“Happy” (Pharrel)

High School Retreats

Let’s get started!

“Let the games begin”

How about this?

• Finger to palm• In the Pond, On the Bank• Number game• “I love my canoe”• Pirates Treasure• Whose leading the circle• The Hunter and the Hunted

Retreat Theme: The Path of the Disciple

• Call of the twelve• What was required of Jesus’ disciples then• What is required of Jesus disciples now

• Establishing a relationship first

What is Jesus asking of us? – Trust and acceptance of Holy Spirit in our lives

Trust-A pre-requisite of Faith

• What is Faith? (“The image of things hoped for, the conviction of things not yet seen”-St. Paul)

• Faith comes from hearing and hearing through the Word of God

Letting go and letting God

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Short Story, The Rope

Stretch Break

Time for…

• Questions, comments, discussion and application

• Make the connections with the challenges students face in their own lives

• When have we broken a trust? What was the result?

• How do we build up trust?• Who do you trust and why?

Learning to Trust

• Trusts tests – Individual• Group Trust Tests

Trust Test-This could hurt!

Breaking down the exercise

• Where are we called to be shining lights (disciples) in our communities today?

• We need a response when we encounter the seven deadly sins.

"Seven Deadly Sins: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Science without humanity; Knowledge without character; Politics without principle; Commerce without morality; Worship without sacrifice."

Food, Glorious Food

Lunch time

Gathering Game

Arts and Crafts-Friendship Bracelets

Discipleship-What does it look like today?

Lending a hand

“Be still and know that I am God”

Scriptural referencesMatthew 25:31-4631 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, 33 and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left. 34 Then the king will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; 35 for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.’ 37 Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? 38 And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? 39 And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?’ 40 And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family,[a] you did it to me.’ 41 Then he will say to those at his left hand, ‘You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; 42 for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they also will answer, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?’ 45 Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ 46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

The Disciple’s Commandment

John 13:34-3534 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

Sharing experiences

• How are we living out this commandment as Jesus disciples in our schools today?

• What are we doing? • What still needs to be done?

Be the change you want to see in the world!

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You’ve got it…use it!

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Sacramental Component

Closing PrayerDisciple’s Prayer Matthew 6:9-15

Our Father who art in heaven,Hallowed be thy name.10 Thy kingdom come,Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.11 Give us this day our daily bread;[a]

12 And forgive us our debts, As we also have forgiven our debtors;13 And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil.[b]

Closing Game-Evolution