Do a Holy Hour Together. (#0103)
Eric Gallagher2019-08-10T14:30:17-05:00This can be done as part of a meeting or the group can plan to do a holy hour once a week or once a month. Oftentimes small groups will [...]
Choose a group patron saint. (#0063)
Eric Gallagher2019-04-16T19:18:20-05:00Choose a patron saint for your group and allow that saint to develop the personality, activities, and spirituality of your group. You can do this by invoking the saint often [...]
Close each meeting by allowing individual prayer intentions to be said out loud. (#0018)
Eric Gallagher2019-04-15T16:42:40-05:00Make time at the end of each meeting to close in prayer and invite members to share their intentions. After an intention the person can say “we pray to the [...]
Text Daily Inspirations (#0019)
Eric Gallagher2019-04-15T11:54:36-05:00Set up a group text message (for youth, include the parents) and send a simple inspiration each day to the group. Consider having a member of the group take it [...]
Pick a special place that you meet at only when it is the birthday week of someone in your group. (#0024)
Eric Gallagher2019-04-14T13:24:41-05:00Draw names and have each member be responsible for the “celebration” of a person’s birthday. (#0023)
Eric Gallagher2019-04-14T12:11:32-05:00Establish a Birthday Tradition for Your Group (#0022)
Eric Gallagher2019-04-14T12:12:28-05:00Determine what you will do every time a member of your group has a birthday. See ideas for Birthday Traditions.
Share a blessing and a thorn (#0017)
Eric Gallagher2019-04-14T11:45:08-05:00Begin each meeting by having everyone share something that they’ve recently noticed in their life as a blessing from God as well as something that is more of challenge.