Resources 2nd Sunday of Advent Year B

Articles, Commentaries, Homilies, Clipart, Coloring pages, Puzzles, Children's Stories for the upcoming Sunday Gospel readings: December 4, 2011: 2nd Sunday of Advent (B) - Mark 1:1-8

The Spirit and the Bride - Matt Maher

A new song from Matt Maher's new album "The Love In Between".

Resources for the 1st Sunday of Advent (B)

Articles, Commentaries, Homilies, Clipart, Coloring pages, Puzzles, Children's Stories for the upcoming Sunday Gospel readings: November 27, 2011: 1st Sunday of Advent (B) - Mark 13:33-37

Catholic Faith Education Newsletter - November-December 2011

The Catholic Faith Education Newsletter for November and December is now online at http://www.silk.net/RelEd/ezine1.htm. As usual you will find in this edition a variety of resources for catechists, teachers, and directors of religious education, including links to resources for Advent and Christmas and a large number of commentaries, homilies, clipart images, coloring pages, puzzles on the gospels for each of the upcoming Sundays.

Fr. Jack Collins on Advent

Fr. Jack Collins, CSP, will do almost anything to ask people what they know about Advent, even get on the ice at Bryant Park.

Mass Prayers and Responses Card

Sadlier is offering a free "Mass Prayers and Responses" card with the Roman Missal, Third Edition changes in bold type. You do need to provide some information about yourself before you can download the cards.

Diocese of Sidney: Religious Education Resources

The Catholic Education office of the Archdiocese of Sydney Australia has published online curriculum guides for students at the primary and secondary levels. These guides are rich in content and offer hundreds of teaching activities and handouts that can be used as is or easily adapted for use by catechists and teachers throughout the world.

My Catholic Faith Delivered - Online Tutorials

My Catholic Faith Delivered "provides in-depth learning programs and video tutorials on the web for all levels of knowledge of the Catholic faith. This is accomplished by combining Catholic content with innovative technology. It is the ideal program for a teacher or a catechist looking for resources and courses, and for a Catholic who simply wants a better understanding of the faith."

Courses offered:

Faith Foundations presents the teachings of the faith in an interactive format that presents the information of the lesson through video presentations which draw heavily from scripture.

Faith and Life presents students grades 1-8 with a thorough grounding in Catholic doctrine, Sacraments, morality, social teaching, and Church life and mission, in light of salvation history.

An Introduction to the Theology of the Body: Discovering the Master Plan for Your Life, is an eight-part, four-hour study designed to give you a solid understanding of God's plan for humanity-a plan stamped right into our bodies.

Theology of the Body for Teens presents the two hottest topics on the planet-God and sex-and "marries" them through Pope John Paul II's compelling vision for love and life.

The Didache series presents the life doctrine of the Catholic Church in the context of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the teachings of the Vatican II as witnessed by the pontificates of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.

Celebrating Humanae Vitae is a four-lesson course contains a full study of the encyclical with presentations from Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life.

Understanding the New Translation of the Roman Missal is a four-lesson dynamic presentation of the New Roman Missal in an online format that provides video presentations, links to learning more, opportunities for reflections and the ability to connect with Catholics in your parish.

Catechesis 101 My Catholic Faith Delivered, along with the Diocese of Sacramento, have joined to create a new, online course designed to help catechists develop their teaching, spirituality and methods. 

Mass appreciation lesson

Mass appreciation lesson - A part-by-part look at the Catholic liturgy and why priests and people say and do what they say and do By Emily Stimpson - OSV Newsweekly, 10/30/2011

Resources for Christ The King Sunday (A)

Articles, Commentaries, Homilies, Clipart, Coloring pages, Puzzles, Children's Stories for the upcoming Sunday Gospel readings: November 20, 2011: Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ The King (A) - Matt 25:31-46

Catholic Charities USA Resources

The Web site of Catholic Charities USA offers a wide variety of useful resources related to social justice for catechists and teachers:

Scripture references on the principles of Catholic Social Teaching
Quotes from key church documents on Catholic Social Teaching
An explanation of the seven principles of Catholic social teaching
Prayer Resources : a compilation (fairly extensive) of prayers submitted by agencies across the Catholic Charities network.
Relexions: One for the Advent season and several on the theme of "Mission and Poverty"
Articles on the Catholic Charities USA Code of Ethics

The valley of Dry Bones

This video is based on Ezekiel 37

Dry Bones from danDifelice on Vimeo.

Faith Mag.com

Faith Mag.com is the magazine of the Diocese of Lansing Michigan. It is published monthly except during the summer months where there is a combined July/August issue. Past issues of the magazine are available online in HTML format from the beginning of January 2002 to the end of 2008 and as a digital magazine and in PDF format from the beginning of 2009. In addition to information that is relevant specifically to residents of the diocese of Lansing, there are always articles that are of interest to a much wider audience and some of these can certainly be useful in a faith formation context. Here are some of the features you can find in the last two editions (September and October 2011):


What do I say when someone dies?

My brother’s cancer tested my faith (teen essay winner)

Teens visiting teens who are locked up

What happens inside the confessional?

Theology 101: It is right to give God thanks and praise:  the Eucharistic Prayer
Survivor’s guilt after a fatal accident

Catholic Moral Theology

The Web site Catholic Moral Theology has recently launched a new section that will offer commentaries on "on major topics in Catholic moral theology as a valuable tool for students, teachers, or other interested people seeking to learn about some specific area of moral theology." These commentaries are written by scholars from various universities.  There are as yet only a handful of commentaries but commentaries on all of the topics listed in this section should be completed by the end of 2011. For more information on this project and for a full list of proposed topics see: New Commentary Section on CMT.com!

Intercession of Saints Explained

Explanation of Intercession of Saints on the Web site StPaulTube, a multimedia sharing platform.

Resources 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

Articles, Commentaries, Homilies, Clipart, Coloring pages, Puzzles, Children's Stories for the upcoming Sunday Gospel readings: November 13, 2011: 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) - Matt 25:14-30

Early Church History - Ch101

Early Church History - CH101

This Web site contains historical information on the church of the first four centuries. Articles are published by two contributors: R.A. Baker and and R.A. Baker both of whom hold Ph.Ds in  Ecclesiastical History and teach at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. 

Catholic Liturgies Throughout the School Year!

Catholic Liturgies Throughout the School Year! - This website is a resource for teachers looking for classroom and schoolwide liturgy ideas. It is a collection of liturgies created by the staff and students of St. George School. There are nine liturgies available.

Each Liturgy has Four Sections

1. Introduction - this tells what grade the liturgy was created for and a brief description of the liturgy.
2. Preparation - tells you about the things you need to do with your class prior to the celebration. Art activities, background teaching, and general planning is included.
3. Setup - this section mainly describes the setup of the location in which the liturgy is to be held. Materials may also be included here.
4. Celebration - this is the actual script of the liturgy. It describes in detail the order and events of the liturgy .

Youth Group Resources - CatholicYouthWork.com

CatholicYouthWork.com provides "advent prayers, youth group ideas, youth ministry resources and all sorts of other stuff to make that purpose driven youth ministry really fly..." A few of the many resources featured here are the following:

Three one - A huge, free programme for Catholic parish youth groups
This is something we are quite excited about and it has been a few years in the making. Three one is a 168-page document giving a complete syllabus for a senior youth group. It is divided into five sections with a total of forty sessions.

A Checklist for Organising Large Events

Useful approaches to behaviour
This resources shows you some effective techniques and approaches in dealing with difficult behaviour.

Organising Large Masses - A Checklist

Calendar - November 2011

Print this 8 X 11 calendar page for November 2011.
http://www.4catholiceducators.com/calendar/November2011.pdf

Images on this monthly calendar are from
Joseph and his Brethren
Illustrated by Owen Jones & Henry Warren
From the Book of Genesis

The complete set of monthly calendar through August 2012 is available for download here: http://www.silk.net/RelEd/calendar-joseph.htm