This comprehensive resource helps catechetical and pastoral leaders prepare for, engage in, and live out the gospel challenges of central feasts, seasons, and milestones of the liturgical year. It also helps them prepare participants (age specific and intergenerational), to participate fully in the seasonal prayer services included here. This is a wonderful resource, filled with invaluable information and guidelines for parish faith formation.
Cambridge Checkpoints study guides provide the most up-to-date exam preparation and revision available for VCE students. Updated annually, Cambridge Checkpoints give students the best chance of VCE success.
Preparing the Way offers the opportunity and challenge to journey toward Bethlehem and the manger by exploring the Revised Common Lectionary readings designated for this Advent season. As she guides us through the lectionary texts of Advent 2012 in Preparing the Way, Sue Mink inspires us to claim for ourselves the call to prepare our hearts, our minds, and our lives for the coming of Jesus Christ in his birth and in his second coming. First time! The Leader Guide, written by Nan Duerling, is combined with the Student Book allowing more flexibility for leading the study. The Leader Guide gives help to leaders for Sunday School Classes or other small groups by providing the same great materials you've come to know and depend on when preparing to lead your class or group.
Celebrating the Lectionary® is a supplementary catechetical resource that helps you bring the richness of the Lectionary and the liturgical year into your catechetical program. It can be used in Catholic school programs, during the process of preparing children for Christian initiation, or as a supplement to a traditional basal text for Catholic school or parish religious education programs. It has been changed from a school year annual to now follow the pattern of the Lectionary. It includes sessions for every Sunday of the liturgical year (Advent, Christmas Time, Lent, Easter Time, and Ordinary Time), sessions for each day of the Sacred Paschal Triduum, and sessions for holydays, solemnities, and feasts so that you can use it in a variety of catechetical settings. Each session is easily adapted to your specific needs and time constraints, with sessions designed so that you can lead class discussions and activities with minimal preparation and make use of the resources you have on hand. Each session includes: - Background information for the catechists - Ways to connect the children’s lives with the liturgical year - Full text of the day’s Gospel reading and an age-appropriate guided reflection - Gospel-related activities - A take-home page for the families to do during the week
