Imagine . . . A classroom of kids actively engaged in learning about their faith. They work diligently on assignments. They listen to your presentations. They ask questions and are able to go home and articulate what they learned in class to their parents and friends. Now imagine the opposite . . . Students are bored and not interested in anything ...
Members: Access and print the graphic organizer for this video and download your own copy of the video to play in class here. (Login or join.) Scripture and the Catholic Church make clear distinctions between two different kinds of sin based on the gravity of sin: mortal sin and venial sin. First, let’s define “sin.” Sin is an offense against God. ...
How do we teach after a tragedy? What is the best way to pray for the victims of a tragedy? People respond in so many different ways. Our students may not know how to respond especially if the tragedy affected them personally or affected their community. Our goal in the wake of a tragedy is to cultivate compassion. Compassion means literally to ...
How do we teach both the head AND the heart? That’s the balance we have to achieve as religious educators. Teaching just the head won’t do. We want our students to enter into a relationship with Jesus Christ and learn accept his love while attempting to love him back. As St. John Paul II wrote about catechesis: “The definitive aim of catechesis ...
"God created mankind in his image; in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." Genesis 1:27 We read in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis that God created human beings in his image and likeness. If we know who God is and what God is like, then we can know what we are called to become and be like as well. This ...
How do we teach both the head AND the heart? That’s the balance we have to achieve as religious educators. Teaching just the head won’t do. We want our students to enter into a relationship with Jesus Christ and learn accept his love while attempting to love him back. As St. John Paul II wrote about catechesis: “The definitive aim of catechesis ...
Imagine . . . A classroom of kids actively engaged in learning about their faith. They work diligently on assignments. They listen to your presentations. They ask questions and are able to go home and articulate what they learned in class to their parents and friends. Now imagine the opposite . . . Students are…
If we were to evaluate the impact of our religious education programs in the Catholic Church today based solely on the number of students whose lives were transformed, do you think we would score well? What if our religious education programs and children’s ministries were measured by the number of disciples that we made in…
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