Student Council President Jeff Klein presents a check to Fr. Paul Key for over $800, donations collected during Lent for Catholic Relief Services.

Blast is a youth group open to 6, 7 and 8th graders from any school and any faith. Check it out at www.blasticc.com . If you have any questions, please email Karen Goforth at kgofo@yahoo.com.

Tyler, Texas Volunteer Opportunities:

The Mission of Nazareth Farm is to provide volunteers a communal experience of Church, as a center of reflection and prayer while working to promote social justice through the empowerment of the local community and volunteers.

Teens normally follow typical human grief patterns following death of family or friends. Those stages may include denial, anger, hurt, guilt, fear and blame. These emotions vary, overlap and recur as humans move through the grief process. Adolescents need time and support in times of difficulty. Death of a close friend or family member by suicide compounds the grief issues since individuals must work through not only the loss but the tenuous notion of human self-destruction. Suicide continues to be second only to automobile accidents as the leading cause of teen deaths in the United States.