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- For her class, 16-year-old Cristina is assigned 40 hours of service at a charitable organization. She selects a soup kitchen, André Center, thinking she can butter some bread, chop some vegetables, hide in the kitchen and get this over with. Rose, the veteran coordinator of André Center, insists that if Cristina is going to serve there, she must interact with the guests. Cristina begins her assignment awkwardly but eventually befriends other volunteers and guests, including another teenager, Kat, a charismatic volunteer. Kat and Cristina become quick friends ... even as Kat relapses into dangerous habits.
- Family Dinner is the story of 15-year-old Cristina who gets caught planning to sneak out to a party with Lukas, a popular senior she has been secretly seeing. Her parents are angry but Cristina begs them to reconsider. They are willing to relent but only after they all meet Lukas ... but who has time for that? Cristina promises to help each family member with their projects to free up their schedules for a family dinner. Lukas is not enthused about having dinner with the family. Will Lukas even come? This modern and entertaining drama is about learning the nature of true love and the selfless service Christ's love calls us to share in The Institution of the Eucharist.
- Franciscan Friars discuss topics of the day. Moving, uplifting music is also played.
- Down from the Mountaintop is a powerful drama for teens and families that relates to scripture and the fourth Luminous Mystery of the Rosary, The Transfiguration, when Christ's disciples wished that they too could stay on the mountaintop. This is the story of shy, music-loving Adam McGlinn, the new kid in town, who gets talked into going on a youth group retreat. "Go, meet people," his parents say. He reluctantly agrees and arrives at the mountain retreat center, guitar in hand. He is welcomed enthusiastically by the teens in the music group. Adam not only grows close to this new community of friends but feels a spiritual connection to God and the Church. Then the weekend retreat ends. In his new fervor, Adam resolves to start a Christian band at his public high school, only to discover that his new "friends" have returned to their routines, his parents don't get it and his sister Emily makes fun of him. Discouraged, Adam wonders if his encounter with God was just an illusion.
- Finding Mary: Based on the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, this inspiring film follows teenager Jess as she discovers that she is adopted. She goes in search of her birth parents and learns how each of us is connected to the entire Body of Christ, and how our good works will always live on.
- "I see Christ in you." This one simple statement of faith moves Robert from worrying more about what his friends think to seeing Christ in himself and others. The inspiring story of a rebellious teen belligerently performing community service and how he is challenged by a nursing home resident to be Christ to others. A modern drama, depicting "The Presentation in the Temple" from the life of Jesus.
- Context with Lorna Dueck explores "life beyond the headlines," featuring news and current affairs stories from a Christian world view.