Creative Ideas for the Family Eucharist
Creative Ideas for the Family Eucharist

Author: Sarah Lenton

Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich

Published: 2022-03-31

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781848255302

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Find everything you need to lead a Family Eucharist in this comprehensive and versatile all-age resource. Building on the new Eucharistic Prayers for use in services with children, it balances formality and informality to help you create engaging worship for all. Easily adaptable for large and small all-age congregations, it offers ready-to-use worship ideas and service outlines for themed occasions throughout the year. Imaginatively-planned and well-structured Family Eucharists are a key part of growing churches, and this resource will give you both the structure and the confidence to lead all-age worship well. It includes: * advice on recruiting and training leaders * ways of getting children involved * a guide to creating a basic structure * suggestions for using music and props creatively * themed services for different seasons * imaginative service outlines for a variety of occasions, including a baptism in the context of a Eucharist * downloadable scripts and illustrations for use throughout the year

Through the Year with Mary: Ponder and Pray Together with Children
Through the Year with Mary: Ponder and Pray Together with Children

Author: Katherine Bogner

Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing

Published: 2022-01-10

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1645851788

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For two-thousand years, Christians around the world have sought the Blessed Virgin Mary as a guide to growing closer to her Son, Jesus. Through Scripture, Catholic teaching, devotions, and countless works of art, we come to see Mary as our Mother, too. Through the Year with Mary by Katherine Bogner brings together the Church’s traditions in one place and provides a year-long plan for coming to know and love the Mother of God through Weekly passages from Scripture, saints, and scholars Reflections to nurture your understanding of Marian teaching and devotion Sacred art from around the world Marian prayers to teach you to grow closer to Jesus through Mary This comprehensive resource will help adults and children alike to entrust themselves to the most loving Mother of Jesus. Through the Year with Mary has received the nihil obstat and imprimatur. Nihil obstat: Msgr. Philip D. Halfacre, V.G. Censor Librorum Imprimatur: Most Rev. Daniel R. Jenky, C.S.C. Bishop of Peoria September 15, 2021

Through the Year with Jesus: Gospel Readings and Reflections for Children
Through the Year with Jesus: Gospel Readings and Reflections for Children

Author: Katherine Bogner

Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing

Published: 2021-01-29

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1645850862

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The liturgical year invites us to walk with Jesus through the most wonderful story ever told: the Gospel. In Through the Year with Jesus: Gospel Readings and Reflections for Children, catechist and popular blogger Katherine Bogner reveals the rich mystery of the seasons we celebrate in the Church. With Gospel readings for each week of the liturgical year, along with tools for reflection, discussion, and prayer, Through the Year with Jesus offers endless opportunities for discovering who Jesus is and better understanding Catholic teaching about his life and mission. Promote prayer and conversation about the life of Christ with children through Weekly readings from the Gospels Lectio Divina prompts to nurture personal prayer or journaling Sacred art to accompany the Gospel reading Stories of saints and many rich Catholic traditions for the liturgical year The easy-to-use format of Through the Year with Jesus helps adults lead children to an intimate encounter with the heart of Jesus through the rhythm of the liturgical year and the powerful words of Scripture.

Creative Ideas for Catechists
Creative Ideas for Catechists

Author: Ruth Ann Rost

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9781556129872

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Rost takes us into the delightful dimension of creative catechetics, with its powerful impact on childrenAIs faith-learning. She first leads us in an exploration of our own creativity, our sense of prayer, and our own sense of discipleship. She then suggests ways to enliven the gathering space, using the childrenAIs five senses to help open them to these rich faith experiences. She offers approaches to the critical factors in preparation, presentation and procedure that make for successful empowerment of the childAIs faith learning. She also includes scores of practical ideas for involving primary and middle-grade children in making prayer, O helping them express their unity with God through prayer. Finally, she discusses the many resources essential to our own spiritual formation, which must go hand-in-hand with that of unfolding a vibrant faith life in children. An excellent resource to inspire, encourage and sensibly guide catechetical ministry as it is meant to be: joy-filled, revitalizingand life-impacting.

Cries for a Lost Homeland
Cries for a Lost Homeland

Author: Guli Francis-Dehqani

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2021-08-25

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 1786223856

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Guli Francis-Dehqani was born in Isfahan, Iran, to a family who were part of the tiny Anglican Church established by 19th century missionaries. Her father, a Muslim convert, became the first indigenous Persian bishop. As the Islamic Revolution of 1979 swept across the country, church properties were raided, confiscated or closed down. Guli’s father was briefly imprisoned before surviving an attack on his life, which injured his wife. Soon after, whilst he was out of the country for meetings, Guli’s 24 year-old brother, Bahram, a university teacher in Tehran, was murdered. No one was ever brought to justice and the family were advised to leave Iran. Guli was 14. They eventually settled in England with refugee status. Drawing on the riches of Persian culture and her own dramatic experience of loss of a homeland, Guli offers memorable and perceptive reflections on Jesus’ seven final sayings from the cross, opening up for Western readers fresh and arresting insights from a Middle Eastern perspective.

Our One Great Act of Fidelity
Our One Great Act of Fidelity

Author: Ronald Rolheiser

Publisher: Image

Published: 2011-06-14

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0307887057

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From the author of the bestselling, The Holy Longing, comes a book about the central expression of faith for hundreds of millions of Christians, the Eucharist. More so than anything else, the Eucharist is what anchors many peoples' life, prayer, and ultimately the way they live their lives. In this deeply personal book, Father Ronald Rolheiser delves into the history and meaning of this sacred tradition, drawing upon the insights of various scripture scholars, theologians, and church teachings. With personal warmth and great insight, he reflects on his own particular Roman Catholic upbringing and the centrality that the Eucharist has within that tradition. At the same time, he looks at other denominations’ traditions around the Eucharist. Our One Great Act of Fidelity is an investigation into the ways people secure their faith and belief and discover true intimacy with God and each other. Ultimately, however, it is a spiritual and a personal statement of how Ronald Rolheiser understands the Eucharist and why he celebrates it every day. Ronald Rolheiser is a specialist in the field of spirituality and is currently President of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. Father Rolheiser is the author of The Holy Longing, The Restless Heart, Forgotten Among the Lilies, The Shattered Lantern, and Against an Infinite Horizon. He writes a weekly column that appears in more than 90 Catholic publications. More information on his work can be found at RonRolheiser.com.

A Church on the Move
A Church on the Move

Author: Joe Paprocki

Publisher: Loyola Press

Published: 2016-01-28

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 0829444068

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2017 Catholic Press Association Book Awards, Second Place: Pastoral Ministry “IF FORMER CATHOLICS WERE CONSIDERED A DENOMINATION, IT WOULD BE THE SECOND-LARGEST DENOMINATION IN THE U.S.”—from A Church on the Move Many statistics on the Catholic Church today are sobering, and the future of the Church can seem bleak indeed. The average parish often feels helpless to do anything that might help turn the tide and revitalize the Church. But best-selling author Joe Paprocki insists that there is good news: with the right plans in place, the Catholic Church—and the local parish specifically—will not only survive, but thrive. A Church on the Move offers 52 practical strategies for moving parishes forward, principally by focusing on the one thing the Church can offer that the world-at-large cannot: Jesus Christ. Each chapter begins with a quote from Pope Francis, and each helpful strategy falls within one of five key categories: how a Church on the move thinks, functions, worships, forms disciples, and engages the world. Every chapter takes an honest look at a particular problem in the Church before moving to a creative, redemptive, and achievable solution. A Church on the Move brings to the parish level the great themes of Pope Francis’ papacy— mission, mercy, and evangelization—and replaces despair with a profound hope for the future of the Catholic Church.

The Print of the Nails
The Print of the Nails

Author: Paula Gooder

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2022-02-14

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1786224240

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Each year, the Holy Week and Easter double issue of the Church Times offers a wealth of seasonal reading and resources for worship and preaching. This volume, like its companion Christmas collection, draws together outstanding features from the past twenty years. It includes: * Meditations on the Stations of the Cross by the poet David Scott; * A short story set in Gethsemane by David Hart; * Timothy Radcliffe on the alternative to conflict symbolised by the Last Supper; * Sam Wells on Pilate and what he - and we - could do differently; * Richard Harries on the art of Good Friday; * Peter Stanford on Judas; * Michael Perham on why Easter celebrations should start in the dark; * Stephen Cleobury on the carols of Easter; * Mark Oakley on the poetry of the cross; * Paula Gooder on why the resurrection is central to faith; * Reflections on the season's lectionary readings, and much besides.

St. Joseph First Communion Catechism (No. 0)
St. Joseph First Communion Catechism (No. 0)

Author: Confraternity of Christian Doctrine

Publisher: Catholic Book Publishing

Published: 2012-02

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780899422404

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The New St. Joseph First Communion Catechism from, Catholic Book Publishing contains the revised text of, the Official Baltimore Catechism No. 0 in a, user-friendly format and design. Written for Grades 1, and 2, this First Communion Catechism explains Catholic, doctrine with the aid of many exclusive features, including a large number of pictures to help children, understand each lesson. Extensive use of Sacred, Scripture demonstrates the basis of Catholic doctrine, and brings it to life. The New St. Joseph First, Communion Catechism from Catholic Book Publishing, combines a contemporary viewpoint and language with a, solid time-tested exposition of Catholic Church, teachings.

The Good Worship Guide
The Good Worship Guide

Author: Robert Atwell

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2013-06-19

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1848254881

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Sunday worship, baptisms, weddings and funerals are the shop window of the church and there is nothing more important for mission than getting them right. How do we help congregations and occasional visitors encounter God through them? This practical guide draws upon the treasury of the church’s tradition and experience to establish good practice