Breakup Reality
Young adults post-breakup often face sadness, sleep issues, and flashbacks. What is this?
PTSD/Trauma
Catholic Social Teaching says your worth stays after heartbreak. What is this principle that you should carry?
What is human dignity?
Live pure, no dating hookups, the Church calls this?
Chastity
Usual 3 vocations of the Church: Marriage, Priesthood, ____, however being single can be a 4th!
Religious life
Women bishops consecrate as Christ's brides, living single in world.
What are consecrated virgins?
Breakups raise suicide risk in collgee students, espcially with prior ____.
What is depression/anxiety?
Grieve openly, lean on friends. The Church teaches us to have a strong ________ surrounding us.
Community
Serve the poor with your freedom, the holy single life through
Service/ministry
Single life isn't "leftover" -- it's holy if lived for Kingdom with _____.
Celibacy/Chastity.
Lay singles like missionaries model holy life through _______.
Service
1 in 5 young people report severe trauma from breakups, per recent studies. What is this statistic as a percent?
20%
Help the person who is going through a breakup as you'd want help. Name this teaching.
Option for the vulnerable.
Privately vow celibacy for God while working in world -- this is
Consecrated single life.
Catechism urges inclusion of singles through prayer, service -- not just marriage. What is this called.
Universal Call.
Pray Liturgy of the Hours dails -- single saints did ____.
Prayer.
Risky behaviors like substance use spike after breakups, per recent studies. What's a key warning sign this is happening?
Withdrawals and mood swings.
Prayer and sacraments heal wounds, prepping for God's ___ call.
Universal holiness
All singles called to daily prayer + mercy works. This makes single life a ________
Vocation
Post-breakup, offer singleness to God like a _____!
From breakup to bishop's helper: Single life can be a ____ ________.
A 2024 study found that romantic breakups trigger PTSD symptoms in up to __ of young adults, worse than most would expect.
20-30%
Church urges "preferential option" for singles who are in pain. This ties to caring for society's
Poor/Vulnerable
Chastity, Consecrated virginity, and lay consecration.
The Vatican II calls all baptized to holiness -- singles respond through ___ three ways. Name this category.
Holy Single Life.
Modern example: Single lay Catholics in _________ live vowed chastity as vocation.