Celebrating the Season of Hope
KATE RISTOW
Waiting, especially at this time of the year, is a concept children understand. From our youngest students to even the most blasé junior...
Living the Liturgical Year: Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12
What do you need? Tell Our Lady of Guadalupe!
CONNIE CLARK
What if someone told you to go to city hall and tell the mayor to...
Celebrating Saint Joseph of Cupertino
People in Cupertino, Italy, just shook their heads when Joseph was around because he had difficulty completing tasks. Much of the time he forgot what he was supposed do. He often stared off into space. Other children made fun of him. Everyone thought he was clumsy and forgetful.
Celebrating Saint Robert Bellarmine, Patron Saint of Catechists
by Patricia Mathson
Feast Day: September 17
for a Saint Page about St. Robert Bellarmine that your learners can take home to share...
Celebrating Sunday of the Word of God
A roundup of resources for studying and teaching about Scripture.
by Barb Szyszkiewicz
New on the liturgical calendar: Sunday of the Word of God, which takes...
Seeing, Hearing, Experiencing: Sharing the Mysteries of the Triduum
Although the Triduum takes place over three days—counting from sundown to sundown, according to Jewish tradition, from Holy Thursday night to Easter Sunday evening—help your students begin to grasp that the Triduum is one three-day, continuous celebration. Unless we see these days as an organic whole, we miss their interconnectedness.
Beyond Service Projects: Cultivating the Call to Care
We are born selfish. Psychologists call it "egocentricity," and it's a good thing. It enables infants to get their needs met—for hunger to be satisfied, for thirst to be slaked.
Living the Liturgical Year—Happy Birthday, Mary! (free downloadable activity)
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 8
CONNIE CLARK
You know when Jesus’ birthday is, but what about Mary’s? Does Mary get a birthday celebration?...
Celebrating Saint Brigid of Kildare: Person of Compassion
Feast Day: February 1
Fasting and Feasting – a prayer service for Lent
Marc Cardaronella
Lent is a time of fasting. But it can also be more: Lent can be a time of feasting — on positive spiritual...
