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. ...
Give your students a great spiritual gift this year. Introduce them to the devotion to Divine Mercy with this lesson and activities. The Divine Mercy devotion originated with a polish nun, St. Faustian Kowalski, who had visits from Christ in the 1930s. She wrote down her conversations with Jesus in a diary, which included a number of suggestions for ...
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 ...
What are the towers in your life? That is the question to pose to your students as you teach them about the story of the Tower of Babel in the Book of Genesis. In this story, the people come together to try to build a tower and a city all on their own. They seek to make a name for themselves rather than rely on God. They said: "Come, let us build ...
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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