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Guided Meditation before the Blessed Sacrament
An outline and script for a guided meditation before the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle. Have you explored Go Seek Find: Discover God’s Treasures yet? This one-of-a-kind sacrament prep program will help children discover how preparing for the sacraments is …
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Family Prayer before First Eucharist
These prayers will help your family focus more deeply on the celebration of First Eucharist that will take place soon. Through these prayers, you, your child, and your family will ask for guidance as you continue to grow as disciples …
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First Reconciliation Meal Prayer
Make this simple prayer card for your family table. The prayer is especially appropriate as preparation for First Reconciliation.
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Family Prayer before First Reconciliation
These prayers are intended to help your family focus more deeply on the celebration of First Reconciliation that will take place soon. You and your child will pray for guidance as you continue to grow as disciples and continue your …
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Chapter K: Let Your Voice Be Heard: Synod on Cyberbullying
Students are challenged to write a speech as if they were a member of Pope Francis’ synod addressing the problem of cyberbullying.
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Encouragement in Persecution
This handout outlines a writing assignment in which students write a letter to an imaginary Roman friend who is enduring persecution in the Empire. Students must use Scripture passages to help them in the writing process.
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Freshman Orientation
This writing assignment asks students to write a description of their freshman orientation to a specific audience.
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Reflecting on Suffering
These journal prompts will help students to reflect on suffering in the world and their personal lives.
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Journal Entry: Inspiration
This is a journal prompt which asks students to reflect on times when they have been given advice.
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God’s Presence in Nature
This assignment helps students to create a poem of praise about an object in nature.
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From Fasting to Feasting
A short prayer that calls us to feast on kindness and compassion towards others.
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I Pray
This prayer for a large group asks for our eyes to be opened to the injustices in the world and our souls to be strengthened by Christ’s presence.
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The Good News Proclaimed to Me!
This handout asks students to reflect and write about the ways that Jesus' healing is needed in their lives.
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Prayer Service: Reflections on Relationships
This prayer service reflects on some of the aspects of relationships.
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Please Help
This is a writing prompt to help students reflect on what it is like to be a virgin in society today.
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The Ending is Yours
This handout provides the beginning of a story about a teen who is about to break up with his girlfriend. Students are to complete the story following teacher instructions.
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My Own Story
Develop a paper that tells your life story. Use any of the following questions, which may help you to develop a greater sense of who you are, where you have come from, and where you want to go.
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The Scriptures and Concern for Justice
A list of justice-centered biblical passages that can be used for preparing class prayers and liturgies, as a resource for assignments, and for your own reflection and prayer.
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Final Performance Task Options for Unit 8
The final performance task options for Unit 8 of Church History: Apostolic Times to Today. The options include writing journal entries from World War I to today, or writing an original graphic novel or comic book about the Church in …
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The Church in the Third Millennium
An excerpt from The Catholic Church: A Brief Popular History, by Cynthia Stewart that discusses background on the Church in the Third Millennium.
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Final Performance Task Options for Unit 6
The final performance task options for Unit 6 of Church History: Apostolic Times to Today. The options include coming up with interview questions for Pope Pius IX, or creating the front page of a newspaper from the day after Vatican …
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Strengthening the Papacy: Vatican I
A book excerpt from The Catholic Church: A Brief Popular History by Cynthia Stewart about strengthening the papacy during Vatican I.
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Assigning Reflective Writing
Here are six tips for making reflective writing assignments more effective.
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Handout: Called to Pray Together
A prayer based off of the Lord’s Prayer with a leader, a reader, and various responses.
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Handout: A Morning Prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours
A Liturgy of the Hours morning prayer with a leader, a reader, and various responses.
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Blessed Are You
This prayer is quoted from Seasons of Your Heart: Prayers and Reflections by Marcina Wiederkehr.
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Inside and Outside
Everyone knows what it feels like to be on the inside and the outside of a group of people. Fill in the statements below, and then write a prayer to Jesus asking for his help when you are an outsider …
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Planning a Marian Prayer Service
This resource, taken from the New Testament Leader Guide for Breakthrough! can be used to help you plan a Marian prayer service for Advent, The Annunciation, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and other celebrations of …
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The Woman
An image where both an old woman and a young woman can be seen depending on the viewer’s perspective.
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A Prayer Service in Intercession for Ordained Ministers
A prayer service for ordained ministers including multiple readers, speakers, and responses.
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Litany Promises Promises
Rev. John P. Mack Jr. discusses the rite of ordination, including the litany and the promise to obedience that priests make. He also talks about the challenges that priests face, and questions that he is often asked by high school …
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Love and Faith in Times of Trouble
This excerpt discusses the ups and down of married life, and how one should respond in both good times and bad.
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Fellow Prophets, Pray for Us
A short prayer service asking the Lord to grant us the gifts of the prophets before us.
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Teach Us to Pray
An activity to help students learn "The Lord's Prayer" from "The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth" Teacher Guide.
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Praying with Scripture The Magnificat
Praying with Scripture, using The Magnificat, from "The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth, Teacher Guide.
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Prayer Service: Love One Another as I Have Loved You
A prayer service focusing on loving one another as God loves us.
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Living the Life of a Disciple: Prayer Service
A small-group planning sheet for a classroom prayer service on living the life of a disciple.
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The Fourth Commandment
An excerpt from Pope John Paul II's letter to families in 1994, the Year of the Family, dealing with the fourth commandment.
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Student - Is This a Calling? Teresa of Avila
An excerpt on calling and vocation, written by Saint Teresa of Avila.
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Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide
An article on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, from "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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The Moral Act
An excerpt on moral acts from "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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The Strengths of Catholic Social Teaching
A document highlighting the strengths of Catholic Social Teaching, from "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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Poverty and Wealth
An excerpt on poverty and wealth from "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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Context of Roland Joffes Film The Mission
The context of Roland Joffes film, "The Mission," from "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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Ignatius of Loyola and the Gift of Freedom
A reading on Saint Ignatius of Loyola and the Gift of Freedom, from "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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The Litany of Loreto
This handout is part of the Living in Christ Series. The Litany of Loreto, which is a devotional prayer through the intercession of Mary.
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Adonai Shalom
Adonai Shalom “Lord of Peace” Adonai Shalom Lord, let there be peace in my heart, so that it may be open to feel love, kindness, and goodness. Adonai Shalom Lord, let there be peace in my life, so that I …
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