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Youth Flyer - Share it /Invite a Friend Youth Flyer 2

Great Tool, I reccommend YOUCAT, we will be using this in conjunction with the Holy Bible scripture and other resources. In the YOUCAT the selections of quotes along the margins are of a wide variety and well selected they correlated with the text. The doodles are cute but not distractive and easy read for any teen or young adults.

Thank You for your commitment and dedication to our youth. I hope to keep you posted on Catechist events, workshops.

Safe Environment Training Link:

http://www.safeenvironmenttraining.org/index.php

Attention Catechist:

Great opportunity to continue your faith formation Catechist receive diocesan credit towards certification or re-certificaition. Ongoing education for everyone. Flyer pdf form

Peaks of Faith

Another great opportunity coming next year, visit www.Salvationhistory.com/events

The Eighth Annual West Coast Biblical Studies Conference:
January 14-16, 2011 | Riverside, CA
“The Coming of the Kingdom: Reading Matthew's Gospel for All It's Worth.”

The original meaning of the word Catechist is "teacher", or one who "echoes" God's word. But a catechist is more than just a teacher who has factual knowledge of the Catholic tradition and teachings. A catechist is a "minister" of the church, one who is commissioned by the community to help pass on the faith to the children, young teens or young adults of the parish. A catechist is also a "proclaimer" of the Good News of Christ, which assumes that he/she truly believes in Christ and therefore teaches with joy and enthusiasm. A catechist is a "mentor", showing the children by his/her own example of how to live as a Catholic, both in celebrating the sacraments, and in how to live as a Christian in the midst of often conflicting societal values and morals.

What will it take? Prayer, Devotion, Commitment to Jesus & Love for the Youth and :

Try to make time to prepare the class ahead of time, You will have all the materials ahead of time, take about two hours during the week prior to the class. You should plan to arrive about 20 minutes early to get the classroom ready, call upon the Holy Spirit for guidance, and SMILE : ). The time goes by very quickly and you will be amazed at the interaction of the teens engaging with the material you present. And remember: the goal is not to get through as much material as possible so the teens can pass a test, it is to give the teen a little bit of quality faith-sharing time and prayer time with Jesus.Scripture,Scripture and Catechism.

Materials, You Ask ???? Got you Covered....

The Religious Education office has numerous resources for craft projects, ideas for games, storybooks, prayer books, and audiovisual materials to support your lesson plans. A good number of catechists have had a few years experience teaching, and are more than happy to share tips and suggestions. Like anything else, once you get started you will get the hang of it, and learn what works and what doesn't for your particular class and your group of kids. You will never be alone and you always will have a outline, resources and materials available to you.

Words for Catechist from John Paul II

Aim of Catechesis

Catechists should be encouraged to meditate on the aim of catechesis and to read the entire apostolic letter, On Catechesis In Our Time by Pope John Paul II.
The definitive aim of catechesis is to put people not only in touch but in communion, in intimacy, with Jesus Christ: only He can lead us to the love of the Father in the Spirit and make us share in the life of the Holy Trinity (Pope John Paul II, On Catechesis In Our Time, n. 5).

The specific aim of catechesis is to develop, with God's help, an as yet initial faith, and to advance in fullness and to nourish day by day the Christian life of the faithful, young and old. It is in fact a matter of giving growth, at the level of knowledge and in life, to the seed of faith sown by the Holy Spirit with the initial proclamation and effectively transmitted by Baptism.
(Pope John Paul II, On Catechesis In Our Time, n. 20)

Catechesis aims, therefore, at developing understanding of the mystery of Christ in the light of God’s Word, so that the whole of a person’s humanity is impregnated by that Word. Changed by the working of grace into a new creature, the Christian thus sets himself to follow Christ and learns more and more within the Church to think like Him, to judge like Him, to act in conformity with His commandments, and to hope as He invites us to.
(Pope John Paul II, On Catechesis In Our Time, n. 20)

To put it more precisely: within the whole process of evangelization, the aim of catechesis is to be the teaching and maturation stage, that is to say, the period in which the Christian, having accepted by faith the person of Jesus Christ as the one Lord and Savior and having given Him complete adherence by sincere conversion of heart, endeavors to know better this Jesus to whom he has entrusted himself: to know His "mystery," the kingdom of God proclaimed by Him, the requirements and promises contained in His Gospel message, and the paths that He has laid down for anyone who wishes to follow Him. (Pope John Paul II, On Catechesis In Our Time, n. 20)

It is true that being a Christian means saying "yes" to Jesus Christ, but let us remember that this "yes" has two levels: It consists in surrendering to the word of God and relying on it, but it also means, at a later stage, endeavoring to know better-and better the profound meaning of this word. (Pope John Paul II, On Catechesis In Our Time, n. 20)

JUNIOR HIGH PROGRAM /MATERIALS:

6th ,7th GRADE

8th GRADE