(Abstract) The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of spirituality and religious orientation of the youth to their resilience. This study evaluate a) the spirituality ? the existential well-being and the religious well-being as lower factors b) the religious orientation ? the intrinsic religious orientation and the extrinsic religious orientation as lower factors c) the resilience ? the internal factors and the external factors to find out a) correlation between the spirituality and the resilience b) correlation between the religious orientation and the resilience c) factor that is the most effective one. This study surveyed middle school students and high school students who attends in Sunday school of Catholic church in Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Gwang-Ju, Gyeongbuk province from Aug. 20 to Sep. 10, 2010. A total of 249 questionaries were collected. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 18.0 for Windows. Descriptive analysis and frequency analysis were performed to find out the characteristic of students. The reliability of all measuring methods are acceptable since the Cronbach of all methods were over .70 The result of this study is summarized as the following; First, as grade get higher and higher rank achievement in school life, resilience was high and the students who started their religious life 3-4 years ago got higher resilience than others. Second, correlation between spirituality and resilience were high and especially existential spirituality had higher correlation with resilience. Third, religious orientation had correlation with resilience but extrinsic religious orientation didn't have correlation with resilience. Fourth, the most effective factor to resilience was existential spirituality,and that means the best way to improve resilience for the youth is togrow existential spirituality. This study shows the importance of spirituality and religious orientation to resilience and especially in progressing to resilience. Compared to previous studies, this study proposed importance of spirituality particularly existential spirituality for resilience since this study focused on two factor, spirituality and religious orientation to resilience based on transactional model.