Memories Are Made of This: Celebrating Advent and Christmas Traditions
During Advent we prepare students to celebrate the birth of our Savior on Christmas. Use the following ideas to keep the spotlight on celebrating the coming of the Lord.
Children’s Liturgy of the WORD for PALM SUNDAY
Thanks to Debbie Frey from Mary Mother of God Parish, Oakville, Ontario, for sharing Children’s Liturgy of the Word with us this week. Feel...
We Gather To Pray: An Advent Prayer Service
Pray with the four themes of the season
MARC CARDARONELLA
The catechetical challenge for Advent is that it’s not Christmas, but everyone around us acts like...
Keeping Advent in a Digital Age: Apps, websites, and activities
JONATHAN F. SULLIVAN
Keeping an Advent season of attentive and joyful anticipation — amidst the secular celebration of Christmas all around us — is an...
Celebrating Saint Catherine Laboure
Miraculous Medal
Feast day: November 28
To Celebrate Confession
Lent is called a "penitential" season. During these weeks, we become prayerfully aware of our weaknesses and sins and do penance.
Catholic IQ — ‘Tis the Season
DAVID O’BRIEN
Here’s a 20-question quiz to test your knowledge about Advent and Christmas. It contains sample questions such as:
“O Come, O Come Emmanuel, and...
Our Earthly Home, Our Heavenly Home
by Jeanne Heiberg
Serenity, peace, security, relaxation, comfort, loving parents, siblings, love, joy: These are some of the words people responded with when I...
Celebrating Saint Anne Marie Eugenie of Jesus
Anne Marie was born in 1817. She was sad when her parents separated. She moved with her mother to Paris. When she was 15 years old, her mother died, and she went to live with relatives. It wasn't until a Catholic cousin invited her to church that she learned about living the gospel.
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.
