Lessons and Activities

A craft to inspire and encourage your students SARA JONCKHEERE This shield craft is designed to remind, inspire, and encourage the soon-to-be (or recently) confirmed of...

SARA JONCKHEERE Through Baptism we become children of God and are claimed for Christ. While many of our students do not remember their own Baptism,...

An entertaining introductory to prayer. Fine for middle-school age students and up.

+ All-good and generous Lord, watch over our Holy Father, and in your benevolence, keep him in your care. As we go about our daily lives, remind us to share...

Moving from fearful to fearless LYNN WEHNER Boldness. It is perhaps in this quality that we see the most dramatic transformation of the apostles after they received...

Heavenly Father, we lift up the Cardinal-electors as they begin the Conclave today to select a new pope to lead the Church. Send your Holy...

DAVID O’BRIEN Here’s a 20-question quiz on Mary, Our Lady of Fatima. It contains sample questions such as: Mary’s visit to Fatima also held a...

CONNIE CLARK Sometimes the best new ideas are old classics. Like the Summer Weekday Mass Club my sister Ginny remembers from her childhood parish in...

Fun facts about our faith DAVID O’BRIEN Here’s a 20-question quiz about our Family of God. It contains sample questions such as: The lists of all...

The last session of the learning year can reveal a disconnect between what you are ready to offer as a concluding review and what your students seem most interested in doing—daydreaming about their summertime fun. Connecting faith and summertime fun becomes less of a challenge—and can even be fun—when you meet your students where they are by using their summertime dreaming as a backdrop for your final class session.