Jump Start: 180 Lessons, Icebreakers, Projects and Weekend Activities for Junior High

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Amodei, Michael

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Questions of Faith; A Workbook Companion to the Catechism of the Catholic Church

The Leader's Manual is closely connected to the material in the Candidate's Handbook. It provides several how-to-use tips for catechists and other adult leaders to share the lessons with either large or small groups and in a variety of time-frames and settings. Each chapter begins with a theological overview and adaptable schedules for one, two, or three sessions of varied duration per month. Suggested activities include role-plays, panel discussions, guest presentations, and film offerings. New references to online handouts are also included.

Send Out Your Spirit: Preparing Teens for Confirmation

Send Out Your Spirit leads teens through the major tenets of their faith--the Trinity, Jesus, scripture, Church, sacraments, morality, and more--specifically structured for the context of preparing for confirmation. This program is rooted in the idea that high school-aged candidates want the necessary information on the Catholic faith in hand as they commit personally to the promises of faith originally made for them at baptism. The Candidate's Handbook was found in conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Send Out Your Spirit: Candidate Handbook

(© 2007) The Subcommittee on the Catechism, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has found that this catechetical high school text is in conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church and fulfills the requirements of Elective Course D of the Doctrinal Elements of a Curriculum Framework for the Development of Catechetical Materials for Young People of High School Age. Marriage and Holy Orders: Your Call to Love and Serve focuses on adult vocations in the two sacraments at the service of communion: marriage and priesthood. The discernment of these vocations involves preparation through living a chaste single life, which is also essential to living the permanent single vocation. For both women and men, lay and ordained, careful deliberation must also be given to the various callings of the consecrated life. Each chapter provides a thorough presentation of these permanent vocations. Each chapter includes several special features: <ul>
<li>Panel activities that help the students foster total learning in hands (service), hearts (prayer), and mind (academic challenges).</li>
<li>Review questions for each main section.</li>
<li>Several Journal Assignments for deeper thought and reflection.</li>
<li>Key vocabulary terms set off in margin panels.</li>
<li>A Learn by Doing project for each chapter that provides a longer-term assignment.</li>
<li>A Called to Prayer feature offering text from a prayer relevant to the chapter theme.</li>
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Marriage And Holy Orders: Your Call to Love And Serve

Ave Maria Press

(© 2010) The Subcommittee on the Catechism, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has found that this catechetical high school text is in conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church and fulfills the requirements of Core Course V of the Doctrinal Elements of a Curriculum Framework for the Development of Catechetical Materials for Young People of High School Age. Meeting Jesus in the Sacraments reveals the sacraments as the definitive way that Jesus remains present to the Church and the world today. The text explores concrete ways for students to understand the sacraments, participate in their rites, and benefit from their graces. The text is organized around the traditional definition of sacrament from the Catechism of the Catholic Church--an efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us by the work of the Holy Spirit. This definition is clarified by organizing the chapters around four dimensions of the sacrament: memorial, celebration, communion, and transformation. Through regular placement of "For Reflection" panels and assignments that focus on deeper research, developing a personal and communal prayer life, and active transformation of self and society, this text allows students to come to know Jesus through participation in the sacraments and the grace of their effects. Selections from Catholic blogs and profiles of saints offer a practical application of the sacrament to teenagers. Each chapter includes several special features: <ul>
<li>Panel activities that help the students foster total learning in hands (service), hearts (prayer), and mind (academic challenges).</li>
<li>Review questions for each main section.</li>
<li>Several Journal Assignments for deeper thought and reflection.</li>
<li>Key vocabulary terms set off in margin panels.</li>
<li>A Learn by Doing project for each chapter that provides a longer-term assignment.</li>
<li>A Called to Prayer feature offering text from a prayer relevant to the chapter theme.</li>
</ul>

Meeting Jesus in the Sacraments

Gustafson, Janie, Ph.D.

(© 2009) This text has been found in conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The FIRST Handbook of Faith written to the U.S. Bishops Curriculum Framework! Catholic Essentials: An Overview of the Faith is a handbook of information, prayer, and practice about Jesus, the Holy Trinity, the Catholic Church, the Sacraments, and ways those who believe in Jesus live out their faith. Organized around the US Bishops' high school curriculum framework, this book is an essential resource to accompany a full study of the Catholic faith. Catholic Essentials provides an overview and synthesis of the six required courses and the elective options of a high school theology curriculum, making it the perfect companion for the students' four years of high school. It also works as a primary text for an introductory or review course. It is well suited for use as the main catechetical resource in a parish youth ministry or religious education program, as it conforms to the new parish adaptation of the framework. Features to enhance students' knowledge of Jesus: <ul>
 <li>Review Questions to help summarize each main section</li>
 <li>Write or Discuss prompts offer ways to reflect on material and apply it to the students' lives</li>
 <li>Vocabulary terms are defined in the Glossary of Selected Terms</li>
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Jesus: Friend and Savior feature includes practical applications for furthering study, including activities, questions and answers apologetic in nature, and a prayer.</li>
 
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 Catholic Essentials comes in three cool and holy colors! Green--the color of creation and the renewal of life, Blue--Mary's color, or Gold--the color of kings, Jesus Christ!

Catholic Essentials

Catholic Essentials: An Overview of the Faith

Send Out Your Spirit: A Confirmation Candidate's Handbook for Faith

Send Out Your Spirit: A Confirmation Handbook for Faith

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