Voices Series

Reaching deep into the hearts of adolescent girls is critical to the development of healthy self-esteem and self-awareness.

The Our Voices series is a set of activities, prayers, retreats, and collective wisdom that helps adults truly listen to the concerns of Catholic young women and encourage them to find their own paths toward a deeper relationship with themselves—and with God.

Voices is designed for single-gender settings; activities are appropriate for Catholic girls from early to late adolescence. Relevant topics, presented creatively in the context of the Scriptures and spirituality, include media awareness, conversion, rites of passage, sexuality, and female role models.

The young women in your parish will be forever grateful for this opportunity to explore their role in being "created in the image of God."

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The Voices series is part of Saint Mary's Press's ongoing commitment to more fully serve the needs of young people by providing gender-specific resources. It consists of six manuals of strategies to use with adolescent girls in schools, parishes, and single-gender settings. The authors and consultants in the series have extensive experience working with girls in both coed and single-gender situations. The manuals in the series are different from one another in content and focus, yet they all share the same purpose: to help girls embrace the true meaning of the phrase "created in the image of God," a profound statement about who they are and who they are becoming.

Also available from Saint Mary's Press, Digging Deep is a manual for fostering the spirituality of young men, which can be used on its own or can be combined with the Voices series to plan concurrent boy-girl sessions. To order any of these titles, go to http://www.smp.org.