Spiritual Resources for Kids and Teens

The YMCA has child care programs available for children from early childhood through school age children.  If you are in need of child care, please visit their website to find out how they can help you meet your family's child care need.
https://www.ymcamn.org/choose-your-child-care 

St. Pius X provides all parishioners with access to formed.org for free. It is easy to use and there is content for kids, teens and adults.  Movies, books, talks and studies are easily accessible 24/7.  If your family hasn't already signed up for Formed.org, set up your account today! 

Visit  FORMED.org 

• Click Sign Up 
• Select "I Belong to a Parish or Organization" 
• Enter St. Pius X and select St. Pius X 3878 Highland Ave as your parish
• Enter your email - and you're in!
• When you visit in the future you just click on Sign In on the upper right hand corner of the screen and enter your email.

For children ages 2-6: Check out Jesus Stories the Unforgiving Servant

For children ages 6 and up:  Check out Brother Francis: The Bread of Life Celebrating the Eucharist
This Holy Thursday we celebrate the Jesus instituting the priesthood and giving us the Eucharist. Learn more about this life giving Sacrament!

For teens: Check out Anima for Youth: Kenosis - Kenosis is a Greek word that means "emptying." In this session, we are introduced to the Person of Jesus, who emptied himself to become human in the Incarnation. Bishop Hying explains how the Incarnation is God's answer to our longing for a "God with skin on," a God who is near and intimate with our human experience. Jesus invites us to imitate this gift by allowing our own suffering to open our hearts to greater compassion and mercy for others.

You will need to sign up for your free access to Formed.org to access the above videos. See the sidebar for information on setting up your account. 

Formed.org : Formed provides high quality Catholic content for people of all ages.  Children will enjoy animated cartoons from Brother Francis, Catholic Heros of the Faith, The Adventures of Carlos Catepiller and much more!  Directions to sign up for your free account are below.

Magnifikid : Magnifikid is providing free online subscriptions due to the Covid outbreak. Magnifikid provides the Sunday Mass readings as well as activities to help reinforce the Sunday readings with them. 

Catholic Sprouts : The Catholic Sprouts Podcast has one goal: to plant one little seed of faith each and every day.   The daily five minute episodes are perfect for young listeners. Each episode discusses an important aspect of our Catholic Faith in a way that appeals directly to children and ends with a daily challenge to help them apply what they learned.

Christ Our Life provides learning activities and games to supplement the curriculum used for our Faith Formation Elementary programs.

EWTN Kids is filled with lots of fun online activites for kids to enjoy.

Holy Heroes has online videos and downloadable activities to help prepare your kids for this weekends Mass! 

Bead by Bead Rosary App for kids is a great way to visually engage your childen or grandchildren in this wonderful Catholic prayer! The app is only available for ios (Apple) platforms at this time. 

Formed.org : Formed provides high quality Catholic content for people of all ages.  Teens can explore their faith with the YDisciple, Why Believe and Anima for Youth.  There are full length movies to explore the lives of saints and books. All for free! Formed.org also has many resources available in Spanish.