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Life in the Spirit Guide

for Teens

What is a Life in the Spirit?

The retreat consists of talks, skits, small group

discussions, and prayer for the baptism of the Holy
Spirit.

When did the Life in the Spirit Seminar

Begin?
The seminar began in February 1967 when a group
of students from Duquesne University met regularly to study scripture and pray. After two years, the
group created a weekend retreat. At the beginning
of the retreat, they surrendered themselves to what
God wanted to do in their lives. One student explained, Jesus was asking us to let him reign, not
simply to acknowledge him as an important person,
but to allow him into the very center of our lives.
This was the foundation for the retreat now known
as the Life in the Spirit Seminar. The same retreat
was created for teens in 1984.

...I ask each and all of you that as part

of the current of grace of Charismatic
Renewal you organize seminars of life in
the Spirit in your parishes and seminaries, schools, in neighborhoods, to share
Baptism in the Spirit; it is catechesisit is
catechesis so that it produces, by the work
of the Holy Spirit, the personal encounter
with Jesus who changes our life. -Pope
Francis

Life in the Spirit Guide for Teens

Life in the Spirit Guide for Teens

The Life in the Spirit seminar (LITS) is a retreat to

bring teens to a personal relationship with Jesus
Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit, based
on the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit found in 1 Cor.
12:8-10.

Retreat Goals

Life in the Spirit Guide for Teens

What we learn in the New Testament

on charisms, which appeared as visible
signs of the coming of the Holy Spirit, is
not a historical event of the past, but a
reality ever alive. It is the same divine
Spirits of the Church, that acts in every
age and those mysterious and effective
interventions of the Spirit are manifest
in our time in a providential way. -Pope
Emeritus Benedict XVI

Teach about the Holy Spirits role in your life

through talks and teachings
Perform skits
Lead small groups to facilitate thoughtful dis
cussion
Pray for participants during special prayer
times

Life in the Spirit Guide for Teens

The mission of the LITS team is to

Gods Love

New Life

Growth

John 3:16
For God so loved the world that
he gave* his only Son, so that
everyone who believes in him
might not perish but might have
eternal life.

John 10:10

John 15:5

Salvation

Baptism of the Holy

Spirit

Colssians 1:13
He delivered us from the
power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of
his beloved Son

I came so that they might

have life and have it more
abundantly.

Acts 19:6
And when Paul laid [his]
hands on them, the holy
Spirit came upon them, and
they spoke in tongues and
prophesied

I am the vine, you are the

branches. Whoever remains in
me and I in him will bear much
fruit, because without me you
can do nothing.

Transformation
Philippians 3:12
It is not that I have already
taken hold of it or have already
attained perfect maturity,* but
I continue my pursuit in hope
that I may possess it, since I
have indeed been taken possession of by Christ [Jesus].

Receiving Gods
Gift
John 7:37-38
Let anyone who thirsts
come to me and drink.

Life in the Spirit Guide for Teens

Life in the Spirit Guide for Teens

Topics of the Life in

n the Spirit Retreat