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.
Celebrating Saint Scholastica
Dedicated to God
Feast Day: February 10
Advice from Master Catechists—February 2012
How can our class fast together during Lent?
How is having students pray at home as part of a lesson on prayer a good idea, a bad idea?
Celebrating Saint Joseph Moscati
Doctor to the Poor, Feast Day: November 16
Celebrating Saint Emilie de Rodat: Loved God and Others
Feast Day: September 19
Double-Espresso Disciples of a Decaf God
Generally, I am a very patient person. Or at least so I thought. I felt I was ready for all that life brings in a big city—until I moved to D.C.
A Lent-Easter Wreath
A Lent-Easter wreath can help students pray through Lent—the same way an Advent wreath helps students pray through Advent—and celebrate Easter.
Celebrating Saint Brigid of Kildare: Person of Compassion
Feast Day: February 1
Lenten Disciplines for Junior High Students
For the past six years, I've looked forward to class with my seventh-grade students the week before Ash Wednesday—because old ideas become new again each year.
Scrapbooking through Lent
If you are willing to use a creative and entertaining teaching tool to present a serious and sacred season, then you are invited to try scrapbooking through Lent.
