Newsletter – 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year A.

REFLECTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE – by Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart

The world is full of peer pressure. It doesn’t go away when you grow out of your teenage years.

How are TV commercials and ad campaigns forms of peer pressure? What do they try to persuade us to do? How successful are they?

How are movies that contain a lot of violence or sexual activity forms of peer pressure? What do they persuade us to do? How successful are they?

How are the church and the Gospel message forms of peer pressure? How does the faith community try to persuade us to live? How successful is that effort? Why?

Being a disciple of Jesus’ is not easy, because the world is filled with all kinds of temptations and negative messages, right alongside the support and the positive messages.

What are some negative messages in the real world that are hard to avoid? What’s the secret to ignoring negative messages?

What are some positive messages in the real world? How can you support the positive messages? What would make them even more effective?

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