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If your parish is looking for a guest speaker for Confirmation students, teens, and young adults, I highly recommend Daniel Oberreuter. To describe him simply as a Catholic singer, songwriter, and speaker would be an understatement. He is also an excellent evangelist, catechist, and at times even a preacher.
He has a band, but he also performs solo (as I saw him). Here are links to information about Daniel’s solo concerts and one of his songs.
My parish brought Daniel Oberreuter in for a Lenten presentation for our teens and Confirmation students. My expectations before the event were based on other young musicians I had seen. What does one typically expect? Feel-good praise music, nervous remarks about chastity, social teachings? Instead what I heard was a powerful and courageous proclamation of the Gospel and of the teachings of the Church. In between songs, he discussed (among other things):
He has a band, but he also performs solo (as I saw him). Here are links to information about Daniel’s solo concerts and one of his songs.
My parish brought Daniel Oberreuter in for a Lenten presentation for our teens and Confirmation students. My expectations before the event were based on other young musicians I had seen. What does one typically expect? Feel-good praise music, nervous remarks about chastity, social teachings? Instead what I heard was a powerful and courageous proclamation of the Gospel and of the teachings of the Church. In between songs, he discussed (among other things):
- The real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, and how we should receive him
- Eucharistic Adoration when the Blessed Sacrament is shown, or when it is kept in the Tabernacle
- Confession, how Christ instituted it as a sacrament, and how he (Dan) experiences its spiritual healing
- The Rosary, his daily praying of the Rosary, the importance of praying, and praying regularly
- He guided us through the Sorrowful Mysteries (agony in the garden, scourging at the pillar, crowning with thorns, carrying the cross, crucifixion and death), describing each in detail, and concluding each with the question “Is ten Hail Marys enough to think about that?”
- Mary’s apparition at Fatima
- Mary’s concern and care for humanity and for each of us
- Hell, that it truly exists, that souls go there, and St. Faustina’s vision of Hell
- Sexual sin, how Jesus suffered because of our sins, and how we are called to chastity and given the grace we need to be chaste
- Marriage as a sacrament, and the error/falsehood of “gay marriage”
- How to pray to Jesus, whether your faith is strong, weak, or skeptical. Calling out for his help, praying for faith, inviting him to come into your heart (I thought this was the most significant part of Dan’s presentation.)
- St. Mother Teresa, and the power of one person to change the world
- How each of us can be that one person, like Mother Teresa. How each of us is called by God to bring goodness to our world, our circle of friends, our school, our town.
