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Sunday

Conference Schedule:

  • All general sessions will be held in Finnegan Fieldhouse
  • All participant meals will be served in Antonian Hall
  • Chapel indicates Christ the King Chapel

Track & Workshop Legend

(YA) Young Adults

(CT) Catechist Training (Yr. 1 or Yr. 2)

(CS) Catholic Schools (non-certification)

(PCL) Parish Catechetical Leader (Yr. 1 or Yr. 2)

(RCIA) Rite of Christian Initiation (Yr. 1 or Yr. 2)

(YM) Youth Ministry (Yr. 1 or Yr. 2)

(DO) Diocesan Officials

(RT) Retreat Track (non-certification)

(HFF) Hispanic Faith Formation (non-certification)

(OT) Open Track (non-certification)

2:00 pm-6:30 pm

GDC Debut Study Day

(Finnegan Fieldhouse: Aerobics Room, 2nd Floor)

SCHEDULE

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Catholic School Leaders’ Summit Registration

(Finnegan Fieldhouse: Performance Room, 2nd Floor)

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

GDC Debut Study Day/Catholic School Leaders’ Summit Participant Dinner

(Finnegan Fieldhouse: Aerobics Room, 2nd Floor)

 

 

 

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Fr. Jonathan McElhone, TOR

Father Jonathan McElhone, TOR  is a Franciscan TOR, serving at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Before responding to a call with the Franciscans, Father Jonathan worked as an industrial electrician, programming robots. Ordained in 2012, Father Jonathan ministered as a parochial vicar at a parish in Texas before moving back to his alma mater in 2005. Currently, Father Jonathan serves Franciscan as the director of the Priestly Discernment Program. Father Jonathan loves being a priest and ministering the sacraments. He has a passion for sharing the Gospel and never tires of witnessing miracles!

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Father Agustino Torres

Father Agustino Torres, CFR, is a priest with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal based in the Bronx, New York. He is the founder of Corazon Puro, an organization dedicated to forming youth. He hosts the EWTN television shows Icons and Clic con Corazon Puro in Spanish. Father Agustino was one of the friars who founded Catholic Underground, an apostolate of the Friars of the Renewal, and the Casa Guadalupe (women) and JPII (men) houses of discernment. He is internationally sought to address topics such as the Church’s teachings about human sexuality, vocational discernment, and missionary discipleship.

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Recharge Games & Activities

Chalk Art Drawing

Use these topics to create your own Pictionary game in the parish parking lot or have all your teen work together to create a masterpiece (don’t forget to send us a picture on social media!). If you’re participating from home, go outside and get creative in your driveway!

  • Mary
  • The Resurrection
  • Heaven
  • Six days of creation
  • Your church
  • The Pope
  • The Holy Family
  • The Ten Commandments
  • Eucharist (bread and wine)
  • Easter candle
  • Stations of the Cross
  • Hope Alive logo
  • Scripture scene –  calming the storm at sea
  • Scripture scene- Jesus walking on water

Two Truths & A Lie

This game is ideal for 10-15 people, but if you have a larger gathering, divide people up into teams so it doesn’t take longer than 15-20 minutes to get through everyone. This can be done in person or virtually!

  1. To get started, explain the game to the group. Let them know that each person will introduce themselves by stating two truths and one lie. They don’t have to be intimate, life-revealing things, just simple hobbies, interests, or past experiences that make each person unique. The lie can be outrageous, wacky, or sound like a truth, making it even harder for the other participants who have to guess which statement is a lie.
  2. Each person goes one at a time; the group has to guess which statements are true and which statement is a lie. It’s up to your group whether to keep score or just play for fun to get to know each other.

 

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Praying for & with One Another

Individual Prayer

  • Share your prayer intentions through the Steubenville Live app. We will offer these intentions at Mass during the conference. Pray for the intentions that others have shared! This is an opportunity to be connected through prayer while physically apart.  
  • Ask your parents or siblings to pray with you. You can share your intentions out loud and end with an Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be.  

Family/Group Prayer

  • Invite everyone to share their own prayer intentions.  
  • If everyone is comfortable, one person can open with a prayer, and each person can pray specifically for their intentions in their own words.  
  • Pray the Litany of Trust, Rosary, or the Divine Mercy Chaplet together. (The “Prayers” button on the Steubenville Live app provides these and many other prayers that can be prayed out loud together!)  
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Livestream Technology Requirements

Recommended Technology Requirements

For the best viewing experience, the minimum required bandwidth (download speed) is 7 mbps. In addition, we recommend using the following browsers and versions on Windows 7/later or macOS Sierra (10.12.6)/later:

  • Chrome 30+ (has automatic updates)
  • Firefox 27+ (has automatic updates)*
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Safari 9+

*H.264 video (required for viewing Vimeo videos) is only supported in Firefox for Windows 7 and later. Firefox versions on Windows XP are no longer supported for playback.

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Wild Goose

The Ministry of the Wild Goose is a part of Franciscan Pathways, a nonprofit outreach of Franciscan Friars of the Province of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Third Order Regular. The Ministry of the Wild Goose works in partnership with 4PM Media, a Catholic media company, to produce resources that will enhance your journey.

The mission of The Ministry of the Wild Goose is to invite men and women to an encounter, or a renewed encounter, with Christ who perfectly reveals the love of the Father by the grace of the Holy Spirit.

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Renewal Ministries

Since 1980, Renewal Ministries has existed to proclaim the message: “God Is.” We foster renewal and evangelization in the Catholic Church by helping people both know the personal love of God in Jesus and grow in holiness.

Our aim is to strengthen and equip Catholics for evangelization and ministry in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Divine Renovation

Divine Renovation is the answer to a question that parishes across the world have grappled with for decades. From declining numbers to passive experiences of church, the obstacles for parishes are real. We exist to help parishes make transformative steps forward in the journey from maintenance to mission.

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Rebuilt Parish

Rebuilt Parish is a movement aimed at impacting the minds and hearts of parish leaders so they can refocus on reaching the unchurched, creating a clear discipleship path, and rebuilding their parish culture.

Our personal Rebuilt journey, from our own home parish, developed field-tested tools to establish an irresistible Catholic parish that makes disciples in our community.

This growth continues in real-time as we develop new resources and tools to fulfill the mission God gave us: go make disciples.

Rebuilt Parish equips and empowers leaders to create a movement of discipleship.

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Real Life Catholic

Real Life Catholic offers Catholic tools and coaching, empowering you to live your very best life.

We are excited to partner with Chris Stefanick and Real Life Catholic and provide everyone who registers for Steubenville Live with free access to the I AM coaching program.

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Catholic Homeschool Connections

In the spirit of the new evangelization and in the light of St. John Paul II’s teaching on the domestic church, Homeschool Connections seeks to use technology to enhance a homeschool family’s educational efforts by providing them the needed resources to achieve this endeavor.

We aspire to help parents with the education of their children in two respects: (1) to provide free, informative webinars for parents; and (2) to provide affordable and engaging courses from university-level professors and practitioners for students.

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Ascension

The mission of Ascension is to present the truth and beauty of the Catholic faith as the path to a fulfilled life and authentic happiness by sharing valuable resources, creating powerful media, and building communities to answer the longings of the human heart with the transformative power of the Gospel.

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St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology

The St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology is a nonprofit research and educational institute that promotes life-transforming Scripture study in the Catholic tradition. The Center serves clergy and laity, students and scholars, with research and study tools — from books and publications to multimedia and online programming.

Their goal is to be a teacher of teachers and to raise up a new generation of priests who are fluent in the Bible and lay people who are biblically literate. This means more than helping people to know their way around the Bible. It means equipping them to enter into the heart of the living Word of God and to be transformed and renewed by this encounter.

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NET Ministries

NET Ministries challenges young Catholics to love Christ and embrace the life of the Church through Catholic youth retreats, parish and school discipleship, and youth ministry resources.

NET Ministries fulfills its mission by proclaiming the Gospel of Christ through a personal witness of faith, inviting young people to live for Christ, forming young people in Christian character through the study and practice of their faith, and equipping youth workers and young adults with the ministry skills needed for evangelization.

Every August, teams of young Catholics aged 18-28 leave behind their jobs, school, family, and friends to devote nine months to serving with the National Evangelization Teams (NET).

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Fr. Jose Robles-Sanchez

Father José Robles-Sánchez is the pastor of St. Juliana Church in Alexandria and he also serves as the Coordinator of Steubenville South for the Diocese of Alexandria. For over 20 years with the Steubenville Conferences and over ten years with Lifeteen Camps, he has devoted himself to providing young people with opportunities to find a true and endless life embedded in the Eucharist, which is the center of life for the Church, and absolutely must be the center of life for the youth. He loves challenging young people to have a better commitment with Christ and the Church, as this will help them live their call to holiness in their own culture and their own lives.

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Derya Little

Derya Little  Born and raised in Muslim Turkey, Derya Little rejected her family’s Islamic faith and became an atheist after her parents’ divorce. During her stormy adolescence, she tried to convince a Christian missionary that there is no God but was converted to Christ instead.

While attending a Turkish university and serving as a Christian youth minister, Derya began to compare the teachings of Protestantism and Catholicism, and during her doctoral studies in England, she entered the Catholic Church.

Little has an MA in History and a PhD in Politics. She has written articles for academic journals, Catholic World Report, Crisis Magazine, and other Catholic publications. Her conversion story, From Islam to Christ, is published by Ignatius Press. Her other books include The Beginner’s Guide to the Traditional Latin Mass and YA fiction Two Fallen Worlds.

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More Than Sunday

More Than Sunday features Lonnie Lapeyrouse, Kayla LeBlanc, Matt Bourgeois, Mark Duplantis, and Doug Hamilton. The group first came together to lead worship at Mass in January 2001 and have been playing Christian music together since. Their strong spirituality and combined musical talent create an atmosphere conducive to praying to God through music. All of the members have been involved in various music ministry projects and ministry events across South Louisiana for the last 15-plus years. In 2016, the band invited Alec Hebert to join them on stage.

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Ike Ndolo

Ike Ndolo grew up in Missouri, the son of Nigerian immigrants, and his life is a woven tapestry of experiences: hymns and Bob Marley, injustice and mercy, discrimination and acceptance. As a result, Ike has become a well-tested navigator of the human experience. He aims to share and guide you through stories that inform and even reorient your perspective. With deep and soulful gospel roots, Ike draws from new wave R&B and powerful, vocal-driven performances, calling on modern influences such as Anderson .Paak and St. Paul and the Broken Bones.

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Wednesday

6:30 am – 8:30 am      

Breakfast

8:45 am – 9:00 am

Liturgy of the Hours Morning Prayer

9:00 am – 12:00 pm     

MORNING SESSION

Praise and Worship

“Resurrected Hope”
Dr. Bob Rice

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Celebrant: Bishop Scott McCaig

Homilist: Fr.  Joseph Espaillat

Noon – 1:30 pm     

Lunch

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Afternoon Session

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm     

Free Time

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm     

Priests’ Track

Free Time

Deacons’ Track (JCWC: Gentile Gallery)

Deacon’s Gathering
Deacon Ralph Poyo

Seminarians’ Track (JCWC: St. Leo Room)

“Anchored in Hope” 

Mother Olga of the Sacred Heart

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm     

“Life in the Spirit Track, Part 2 of 2”
(Finnegan Fieldhouse)
John Beaulieu

4:30 pm – 7:00 pm     

Dinner

6:45 pm – 7:00 pm     

Gathering Music
Steubenville Worship

7:00 pm – 10:25 pm   

EVENING SESSION

Evening Prayer with Worship

Anniversaries, Conference Attendance Recognition

Praise and Worship

“Adversity: Burden or Bridge?”
Mother Olga of the Sacred Heart

Holy Hour

(Chapel)

Fr.  Joseph Espaillat

10:25 pm – 11:30 pm 

Social

Cake and Punch available to celebrate anniversaries (JCWC)

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Mother Olga of the Sacred Heart

Mother Olga, the founder and mother servant of Daughters of Mary of Nazareth, lived through four wars in Middle East. In 1993, she started a lay movement called Love Your Neighbor, and in 1995, she established the Missionaries of the Virgin Mary. She has a BS in biology and hematology, a MA in theology from the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome, and an MA in pastoral ministry from Boston College. Mother Olga has received many awards, including the Saint Paul the Apostle Evangelization Award, an honorary Scarlet Key Award, the Bowie Kuhn Award, Cheverus Award, the Assyrian American National Federation Humanitarian Award, and Saint Edmund’s Medal of Honor. In April 2011, Cardinal Séan Patrick O’Malley entrusted to her the mission of establishing the Daughters of Mary of Nazareth.

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Fr. Christopher O’Connor

Father Christopher O’Connor  is a poor, wretched sinner who was, only by the grace of God, ordained a priest on June 5, 1999. He is currently the pastor of Blessed Virgin Mary, Help of Christians, in Woodside, Queens, New York, in the Diocese of Brooklyn.

 

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Bishop Scott McCaig

Bishop Scott McCaig, CC, was born in Duncan, British Columbia, Canada, and grew up Kamloops, British Columbia and entered into full communion with the Catholic Church in 1987. After serving with NET Catholic Youth Ministries USA, he joined the Society of Apostolic Life the Companions of the Cross in 1989 and later served two terms as general superior (2006 to 2016). Bishop McCaig holds an undergraduate degree in history from Carleton University, a bachelor’s degree in sacred theology from the University of St. Paul, and a master of divinity degree from the University of Toronto. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1995, serving in numerous capacities. He was appointed by Pope Francis as Military Ordinary of Canada on April 8, 2016, and ordained to the episcopacy on the Feast of the Visitation, May 31, 2016. Bishop McCaig serves on several boards, has participated in many missionary outreaches, and assists in training missionaries with NET Ministries of Canada. In addition, he is episcopal advisor for the Spiritual Motherhood of Priests Apostolate in Ottawa, serves on the Committee for Ecumenical Dialogue for the Canadian Council of Catholic Bishops, and is liaison to the Catholic Charismatic Renewal for the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario.