Catholic Educators News - March 2007
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Catechist's Journey is a new and interesting blog maintained by Joe Paprocki who was a religion teacher at a high school seminary, a director of religious education and a pastoral associate at a parish, the consultant for catechist formation on to the Office for Catechesis of the Archdiocese of Chicago, and is now working for Loyola Press. Be sure to visit and bookmark this blog. It is a great new resource for catechists. This page on the Web site of the Archdiocese of Toronto offers a large selection of useful resources. The introduction to this page reads as follows: "We express our faith through public worship in the liturgy of the Word and Eucharist, song, prayer, devotions, sacred rites and the Sacraments. The resources below help tell the story of our sacred traditions." Godzdogz is an internet-based project of the student-brothers
of the English Dominican Province. This
blog was launched at the beginning of this month (december 3, 2006).
I find it to be an exciting and rich new resource. This is certainly
partly because my studies in philosophy and theology at a Dominican
college have given me an awareness and appreciation of the rich
tradition handed down by the Dominicans. It is also because the
blog, even after so short a life span, is already rich in beautiful
images, Gregorian chant sound files, solid commentaries on daily
scriptures, inspiring meditations... I highly recommend you take
time to explore this blog!
BustedHalo.com — There is much to explore in this Web site, but I want to point out the following excellent features that can be found in the Faith Guides section:
Annotated Bibliography The diocesan resource center of the Diocese of Reno has over 4000 books and 500 videos. Their Web site has made available a commented bibliography of all of these resources providing a short description for each of them. This online reference is organized by topics and provides a valuable tool to help you discover useful resources. |
Church History Timeline — The Evangelist, the official publication of the Diocese of Albany, has a section called Countdown to 2000 that offers a brief history of the Catholic Church. The six web pages (approximately 20 printed pages) offer a good brief overview of Church history in simple language. The Center for Ministry Development "The Center for Ministry Development is an independent, non-profit organization whose core purpose is to bring the Good News in new ways to the people of God. Our mission is to empower faith communities and their leaders for effective ministry with adolescents, young adults, and families through ministry education for leaders, ministry development training and resources, programs, and publications. The Center is funded through a combination of fees for services, publication sales, and foundation grants." The Center's Web site offers training programs, publications and resources for various areas of ministry: Youth Ministry Young Adult Ministry Family and Intergenerational Ministry Although most of the resources are for a fee, there are quite a number of free resources that can be downloaded in PDF format. You do need to provide your name and email address to access these free documents, but the Center does have a clear privacy policy. A Day in the Life of a Trappist Monk is a beautifully made Web site offering a glimpse of the daily activities of a monk and the spirit behind it. The introduction to the site reads as follows: The online version of Religion Teacher's Journal from Twenty-Third Publications offers free articles from the current issue as well as a selection of features from past issue, plays for your classroom, stories and teen topics. C.R.M.I. Worksheets is a Web page with over 60 worksheets that can be downloaded for free. |
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Jesus: A Historical Portrait ©2007 American Catholic — Three new articles by renowned scripture scholar were published since December 2006: Sacraments
Have a Language All Their Own by Marlene Sweeney , Catechist,
January 2007 — "In the early church, sacraments were
seen as part of a sacred commitment to live as a disciple of Christ.
Inviting today’s Church to take up this calling is a vital
part of all sacrament preparation. Sacraments call for a response.
How can your candidates say “yes” to God’s invitation?
How can you evoke a response that will prolong the sacrament into
their daily living?"
Ash Wednesday By Rev. Mark Connolly , Spirituality Today, February 2007 - Volume 11, Issue 6 — "Ash Wednesday starts the sacred season of Lent for Catholics all over the world. There will be all sorts of reminders of that first sacred season of Lent when Christ underwent an agony, scourging and a crucifixion. During this time each one of us is reminded that this sacrifice that Christ made during his life was for us. Lent is a reminder whether we give up smoking, give up candy, give up movies that in our own way, we are making a sacrifice for Christ." Cry Freedom!, The modern global slave trade and those who fight it by David Batsone, Sojourners, March 2007 — "Twenty-seven million slaves exist in our world today. Girls and boys, women and men of all ages are forced to toil in the rug loom sheds of Nepal, sell their bodies in the brothels of Rome, break rocks in the quarries of Pakistan, and fight wars in the jungles of Africa." |
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