Making a Good Confession (video + suggested resources)
This video will be helpful for teens and adults.
Note the suggestions at the end for ways to prepare for confession:
1. Examination of Conscience
2. Use...
Stained-Glass Cross, a Lenten craft
BY JESSICA GORDON
The penitential period of Lent and its fulfillment on Easter Sunday serve as an effective reminders to the faithful of the price...
Fr. Mike Schmitz on the Woman Woman movie and a Christian’s call to heroism
Suitable for high school age and older.
Holy Spirit, Strengthen Us Prayer Service
An adaptable prayer service for your community
DEANNA BARTALINI
While the Holy Trinity is prominent in all the Sacraments of Initiation, we tend to associate the...
Celebrating Saint … St. Martin de Porres
by Patricia Mathson
CLICK HERE for a pdf about St. Martin de Porres and some of the other feast days in November and December.
Copyright...
Celebrate Saints: St. Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi
By Patricia Mathson
Feast day: October 4
Francis Bernardone lived in the town of Assisi in Italy. He was the son of a wealthy...
Using the Catechism in the Classroom
BY MARLON DE LA TORRE
Create your own lesson — or lesson supplement — using this important resource
Many years ago someone asked me, “What is...
A Family Together: Meeting New People
September brings the beginning of new classes, activities,
clubs, and so forth. The common element in all these new
things is people. There are always new people to meet. It’s
fun meeting new people, but sometimes meeting new people
brings on a case of the “what ifs”: What if everyone knows
everybody but I don’t know anybody? What if nobody talks
to me? What if others don’t like me?
Nicholas Black Elk, Catechist: cause for canonization opened
At their annual meeting, the USCCB voted to open the cause for canonization for Nicholas Black Elk, a Lakotan medicine-man whose conversion led him...
The Source and the Summit
Sharing the bold, clear teaching of the Eucharist
LYNN WEHNER
In the Catholic faith, few things are more clearly stated than the central teaching...
