Totus Tuus 2022

Will be postponed until next year throughout the Diocese of Rockford.

We hope to host Totus Tuus Summer 2023.  Information will be available in the Spring.

Totus Tuus parish summer catechetical youth program is a week-long “parish mission” for Catholic youth entering grades 1st through 12th. It is dedicated to the proclamation of the Gospel and promoting the Catholic faith through evangelization, catechesis, apologetics, Christian witness, the sacraments, Marian devotion, and Eucharistic worship.

Totus Tuus aims to assist parents and parishes in the evangelizing and catechizing of their youth by supplementing the work they are already 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 young people. The result has been the formation of youth and young adults who continue to dedicate themselves to the Church’s mission of evangelization.

The mission of Totus Tuus is to inspire in young people a true longing for holiness, a deep desire for daily conversion, and openness to their vocation by constantly challenging them to give themselves entirely to Christ through Mary and by continually strengthening their prayer lives in imitation of Her. Totally Yours Totus Tuus, a Latin phrase meaning “totally yours,” was the motto of Venerable Pope John Paul II. Taken from St. Louis de Montfort’s True Devotion to Mary, it signifies our desire to give ourselves entirely to Jesus Christ through the hands of our Blessed Mother Mary. It also expresses our effort to give all that we have to every young person we encounter.

Totus Tuus calls upon college students and seminarians from the Catholic Diocese of Rockford and across the United States to carry this mission to every young person they encounter. Totus Tuus teachers are hired for their energy, enthusiasm, love for the faith, commitment to spiritual growth, ability to work with a team, and desire to work with youth. Teachers are trained, grouped into teams of four, and sent out to a different parish every week for six weeks, where they conduct a week-long "parish mission,” teaching and inspiring the parish’s youth. It is through the teams’ example of authentic Christian living, centered on prayer and the sacraments, that they are able to be witnesses."Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses” (Evangelii Nuntiandi, 41). The youth see that these teachers who are joyful and on fire with the Catholic faith and long for the same thing in their lives. Additionally, the daily schedule of Totus Tuus revolves around the Mass, the Sacraments, and prayer. A summer given entirely to God and the young people of the Catholic Diocese of Rockford would not be possible otherwise.

For more information about the Totus Tuus program from the Diocese of Rockford, please visit Diocese of Rockford | Office of Vocations | Totus Tuus (rockforddiocese.org)

For any questions about the week long camp at our parish, please contact Lisa Johnson in our RE office at 815-385-2959 or at reoffice@stpatrickmchenry.org.