Praying amidst violence and strife — downloadable prayers to share
Recent news accounts have inspired members of our Bayard team to compose prayers to be shared. When events like the killings at the Tree of...
It’s Okay Not to Know Everything
Top apologetics resources online
SR. BRITTANY HARRISON, FMA
My first day on the job as a novice catechist, I looked over my classroom of wiggly fifth-graders...
Yes, You CAN Be a Catechist!
BY SARAH REINHARD
Answering Common Excuses and Fears
If you think that being a catechist takes a big investment of time, you're right. But that time...
Reaching Teens: It's Harder and Easier Than You Think
What Are You Working On?
8 Ways to let Advent, Christmas Memories Heal us and Others
By John J. Boucher
The Advent-Christmas season is a time of joy, peace, and celebration, but it can also be a time of sadness, loneliness,...
PRIEST, PROPHET, & KING as a Way of Life
The threefold office of baptized persons
JASON GALE
In Baptism, the person receives an anointing in which he or she is “incorporated into Christ who is...
Create a Children’s Journey to the Cross
A meaningful way to involve children and their families in a special Good Friday tradition is to host a Children’s Journey to the Cross. This is a specially adapted Stations of the Cross in which children and their families participate together.
Assessing Needs
Planning adult faith formation
SR. JANET SCHAEFFLER, OP
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time...
Setting Up Council
Not everyone supports committee work!
It’s OK to Put Down the Phone — honoring silence
Breaking the Addiction to Technology Within Catechesis
MICHAEL ST. PIERRE
I can still remember the Confirmation class I taught years ago. There I was, with 15...
