If your teen is asking hard questions about the Catholic Faith - we feel ya.

One of the hardest parts of being the parent of a Catholic teen is learning to field all the questions about 
 

• Being Catholic
• Religion versus Spirituality
• Science and Faith
• The meaning of LOVE
• Love and Responsibility
• What life is about
• Why is assisted suicide wrong
• Why you shouldn't live together before marriage...
• NAME IT///

 
For most moms and dads, it's hard to relate to all the day to day probs kids are facing: let alone the religious and philosophical questions weighing down their hearts...

But that's what we do...

Teen Faith Formation at STL is focused on providing the real world REAL JESUS answers your teen is looking for - in the fellowship of mentorship and friendship they need over a home-cooked meal.  Our Teen Faith Formation program is about allowing your child to grow into real encounter with Christ, a loving, profoundly beautiful love of the Sacraments, and an opportunity to embrace the Holy Mass by being able to understand the Scripture AND THE EUCHARIST in a way that leaves a lasting, powerful mark on your young adult's life - 

AND SUPPORTING YOUR FAITH and YOUR FAMILY THROUGH IT ALL.

We welcome you and your family to the life of the Church at St. Luke and look forward to celebrating with you all the joys and gifts that the Holy Spirit will work in your life in the days to come!
 

WHY IS ST. LUKE'S TEEN CCD SO DIFFERENT?

It's absolutely normal for teens to wonder about what their lives, their hopes, their love, their dreams, and their futures are for.  But in a world where there's so much confusion about what life is all about, it's easy to get sidetracked from the real TRUTH, LOVE, and BEAUTY for which we were created.  Those conversations can't happen in a classroom environment.  They need to be discussed over a meal, over time, with friends and mentors who not only get your questions - but know WHO THE ANSWER IS. 

What makes STL's TEEN Faith Formation so different?

Our parishioners do.

The beauty of our Teen Faith Formation lies in the fact that our parishioners volunteer in three ways:
 

• MENTORING COUPLES:

  Our Mentoring Couples are kind men and women whose whole role in our program is to cheer, support, encourage, and WITNESS to how a real life is better if it has a real FAITH.  They LISTEN to our teens' achievements, sorrows, concerns, hopes, happy moments, and sad life struggles - and they cheer, commiserate, encourage, cry, and pray with our teens.  Think of them as Catholic Life Coaches who don't have perfect lives - Father Pat calls it perfect imperfeection: but who are people who know that this difficult human life can't be lived well without a strong love for Christ in the Sacraments, in deeply rooted relationship with God, prayer. and family and community.  They offer our teens a look at what ADULT CATHOLIC FAITH looks like and support the virtues, goals, and hope our teens' parents are trying to share with them.

• CATECHISTS:

  Our Catechists are wonderful men and women who have the ability to explain the Sacraments, the Holy Mass, our Faith, and our Traditions with the help of our Pastor, Parochial Vicar, Seminarians from the Archdiocese of New Orleans, and Sisters from our Religious communities.  They share the Holy Faith with the same energy, compassion, humor, and love that the leaders of the Early Church had.  Their joy is contagious - and their faith is bolstered by a deep love for Christ in the life of the Catholic Church.

• TEEN MEAL PREPARERS

  If you have a teen in your life, you know there is never enough food.  It's hard to be thinking about the major questions of your life if your stomach is grumbling!  Our parishioners volunteer to cook (buy) a meal for about 15 teens and their mentors every so often.  The food is terrific! but the love is even more important.  The meals are a sign of our parishioners affection for these young men and women who are the future of the Catholic Church.  The teens get to correspond with the families via thank you cards and prayers - these families pray for them and they pray for the families who provide the meals!  It builds a real relationship of belonging.