Theme - Franciscan University High School Youth Conferences

"Greetings in Christ! It is with great excitement that I share about the theme for the 2006 Franciscan University of Steubenville Summer Youth Conferences. Each year we go before the Lord with a blank page and ask, “What do you want us to focus on this summer?” This year it is the UNCHANGING nature of God – His love for us, the truth as revealed through Scripture and Tradition, and the indelible mark He put on our souls through Baptism and Confirmation. The scriptural focus of the 2006 summer conferences is:

“Trust in the Lord forever! For the Lord is an eternal Rock.”
- Isaiah 26:4

UNCHANGING! It can rub us the wrong way. After all, we live in world where if something can’t be upgraded, if it can’t be modified, if it doesn’t adapt, it is seen as obsolete and outdated. Yet Hebrews 13:8 clearly states, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” He is UNCHANGING! Thank God that He is the fixed point, the foundation, the beginning and the end.

We find God most unchanging in His love for us. The Catechism states in paragraph 221, “God's very being is love… God has revealed his innermost secret: God himself is an eternal exchange of love, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and he has destined us to share in that exchange.” That’s a major “Wow!” statement. We were created to be a part of an everlasting and unchanging love relationship.

The access points for this eternal love are the Sacraments. “By the Eucharistic celebration we already unite ourselves with the heavenly liturgy and anticipate eternal life, when God will be all in all.” (CCC 1326) Through our participation in the Eucharist, we experience a foreshadowing of the joy that will be ours forever. This is true of all the Sacraments! Once again, “Wow!”

As you prepare your hearts for the blessings God wants to pour out on you, it is important to pray and meditate on how God is not like our culture or us. Fashion, me"

This years song is - Unchanging
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I think it's pretty good. It's not the greatest song ever, but still good.

The lyrics to Unchanging