Totus Tuus – Summer Catholic Youth Program
Grade School: June 12 – 16 from 9 am – 3 pm in the school
High School: June 11 – 15 from 6:30-8:30 pm in the Social Hall
Click HERE to download a registration form or pick one up in the church atrium.
Space is limited to 100 students for the day program. Please turn forms and payment to the parish office. The deadline to register is May 26. Cost is $20 per student or $40 for a family with 2 or more students.
Participants in the day program should bring a lunch and change of clothes for Mass if needed.
For High School, we are doing something different… the team will eat their evening meal with the high school students. We are asking the parents of the evening program to volunteer to help out with these meals. A signup genius will be going out after the registration has closed.
Totus Tuus – “Totally Yours”
Totus Tuus is a summer Catholic youth program dedicated to sharing the Gospel and promoting the Catholic Faith through evangelization, catechesis, Christian witness and Eucharistic worship. Our week-long Parish Summer Catechetical Program assists parents and parishes in the evangelizing and catechizing of their youth by supplementing the work they are currently doing.
The methodology, structure, content, and enthusiasm of Totus Tuus is concerned not only with teaching the Faith, but also igniting the hearts of the team members and the young people they encounter. The result has been the formation of young adults who continue to dedicate themselves to the Church’s mission of evangelization along with many vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
Our Mission
The mission of Totus Tuus is to inspire in young people a true longing for holiness, a deep desire for daily conversion and an openness to their vocation by the constant challenge to give themselves entirely to Christ through Mary and by continually strengthening their prayer lives in imitation of Her.
Our Motivation
Totus Tuus, a Latin phrase meaning “Totally Yours,” was the motto of Blessed John Paul II. Taken from St. Louis de Montfort’s True Devotion to Mary, phrase it signifies our desire to give ourselves entirely to Jesus Christ through Mary. It also expresses our effort to give our all to every young person we encounter. Through the teams’ example of joy and service, the youth see that these men and women are on fire with the Catholic Faith and long for the same thing in their lives.
Our Method
Totus Tuus calls upon college students and seminarians from across the United States to carry this mission to every young person they encounter. These young men and women are hired for their energy, enthusiasm, love of the Faith, commitment to spiritual growth, ability to work with a team and a desire to work with youth.
Parish teachers are grouped into teams of four, each consisting of two men and two women, and are invited to a different parish every week for six weeks, where they conduct a week-long “parish mission,” teaching and inspiring the parish’s first through twelfth grade youth.