CCS: Mind | Body | Soul

Since its inception in the beginning of 2007, Catholic Challenge Sports - Kansas City has served young adults in the Kansas City metropolitan area through our many sports leagues and events.  We operate on a volunteer basis; there are no paid positions, only hard-working, dedicated folks.  Our constant goal is to strengthen and enhance our local Catholic culture by uniting young adults in their common interests.

At CCS, we know that the MIND, BODY and SOUL are intrinsically connected.  The human person best serves the Church when he uses all of his God-given talents and abilities to the fullest.  We joyfully serve the Lord through this ministry by promoting a healthy lifestyle, creating new friendships and leading our members closer to Christ.

SAINT SEBASTIAN -- Patron Saint of Athletes and CCS

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Saint Sebastian (traditionally died January 20, 287) was a Christian Saint and martyr, who is said to have died under the persecution of Christians by the Roman emperor Diocletian in the 3rd century.

This guy was a tough fellow.  A devout Christian and captain of the Praetorian Guard under Diocletian and Maximian, Sebastian practiced his faith daily, although quietly, since it was a time of religious persecution.

Eventually, Diocletian was made aware of Sebastians true Christian identity.  "He commanded him to be led to the field and there to be bounden to a stake for to be shot at.  And the archers shot at him till he was as full of arrows as an urchin is full of pricks," and thus left him there for dead.  Miraculously, the arrows did not kill him.  The widow of St. Castulus went to retrieve his body to bury it, and found he was still alive.  She brought him back to her house and nursed him back to health.  The other residents of the house doubted he was a Christian.  One of those people was a girl who was deaf and blind.  Sebastian asked her "Do you wish to be with God?" he then made the sign of the Cross on her head and she then said "Yes," regaining at the same time her sight.  Sebastian then stood on a step and harangued Diocletian as he passed by; the emperor had him beaten to death and his body thrown in a privy.  But in an apparition Sebastian told a Christian widow where they might find his body undefiled and bury it "at the catacombs by the apostles."

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“The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wrestling them from Satan and giving them back to God."

-- St. Sebastian