The Family Learning Guide provides parents and guardians with an opportunity to work together with their children, using the Finding God Children's Book, to grow together in faith.
Whether they are doing home catechesis with their kids or just seek to be more deeply involved in their children's faith formation,
this supplemental program resource assists parents and guardians who wish to actively pass on the Catholic way of life and share their own faith and family faith traditions with their children.
Part One welcomes and orients parents to the program, discusses the experience of family faith formation, presents an overview of their child's faith development throughout grades one through six, and offers a step-by-step process for going through a session with a child.
Part Two helps parents or guardians work with their child and specific Finding God sessions, offering convenient overviews of all of the core sessions in the program, opening prayer services, and opening and closing family activities for each unit.
Part Three contains family activities to mark and celebrate liturgical seasons, saints days, and feasts of the Church. And Part Four contains additional resources for families, including a Family Learning Guide CD with songs, instrumental music, dramatized Scripture recordings, and recorded guided reflections from the Finding God program.
Program supplement. Speak with your sales representative for more details.
Gathering Together is a ready-to-use, quality family faith formation program for parishes to use with parents whose children are preparing for their first celebrations of Reconciliation and the Eucharist. Co-authored by Jane E. Regan and Mimi McReavy Bitzan—who together wrote the Finding God adult faith formation Gathering Sessions—Gathering Together helps parents and families build a faith that matters while growing in their understanding of the sacraments.
Easy to implement and self-contained, this program includes four ready-to-use parent gathering sessions and two parent-child retreats, one on Reconciliation and one on Eucharist. The sessions and retreats are designed to foster connections between the sacraments and daily living and to offer families opportunities for meaningful conversation and interaction. For flexibility of use, it may be implemented and expanded gradually.
Three-Ring Binder 0-8294-1938-1 $69.95
Sacred Times: Our First Celebrations of Reconciliation and Eucharist is a family keepsake book that invites parents to participate in the preparation and celebration of these sacraments with their child. The book guides parents to reflect on their own First Reconciliation and Eucharist experiences and share these stories with their children. It also offers space to preserve thoughts, prayers, and special photographs from the child's celebrations.
Paperback 0-8294-1939-X $4.95, Pack of 25 0-8294-2003-7 $69.95
Toward an Adult Church presents the vision for adult catechesis that is integrated into the Finding God: Our Response to God's Gifts program. Written by Jane E. Regan, who also wrote Finding God's adult faith formation Gathering Sessions, Toward an Adult Church draws on both ecclesial church documents and practical field experience to reveal the contemporary call for a new religious education paradigm—one that brings adults into focus. Regan lays out the foundations needed to make this transition within parishes and offers principles for effective adult faith formation.
Paperback 0-8294-1806-7 $15.95
Finding God in All Things offers a deeply rooted Catholic message—that everything in this world is an invitation to draw closer to God and to experience his love more fully. Using personal stories and everyday examples, this video helps viewers understand God's ability to communicate and work through all circumstances and guides viewers to a greater awareness of God's presence in their own lives. Echoing the invitation-response catechetical model integrated into Finding God: Our Response to God's Gifts, this powerful visual resource will complement your catechist preparation. Also recommended for adult faith formation, retreats, and personal reflection. Includes a free Study and Discussion Guide.
Produced in association with Loyola Productions
Video (22 mins.), Closed-Caption 0-8294-1536-X $29.95
In Why We Go to Mass charismatic liturgist Rev. J-Glenn Murray, S.J., energetically challenges the idea that Mass is "boring" or has little to do with daily life. Speaking to today's Catholics, he addresses issues such as table fellowship and liturgical ritual, and then walks viewers through the order of the Mass, explaining how each segment calls for our "full, conscious, active participation" in the liturgy. Recommended by the U.S.C.C.B. for liturgical renewal. Includes a free Study and Discussion Guide.
Produced in association with Loyola Productions
Video (3 approx. 30-min. segments) 0-8294-1934-9 $29.95
Raising Faith-Filled Kids is an enjoyable read that offers practical ideas, tips, and tools to help parents nurture spirituality at home. Written by Tom McGrath, author of the Finding God parent newsletters, this hands-on book encourages and supports parents who are seeking friendly wisdom and guidance.
Paperback 0-8294-1425-8 $12.95
Spanish Edition 0-8294-2214-5 $12.95
Also available, the Discussion Guide: Raising Faith-Filled Kids is a companion to Tom McGrath's book that encourages meaningful conversation about family faith issues and helps build parish community. The guide provides material for one book group orientation and five discussion sessions. Each session is based on a theme and includes a short prayer, group discussion questions, and questions for individual reflection.
Paperback 0-8294-2067-3 $9.95; 10/pk 0-8294-2133-5 $49.95
Spanish Edition 0-8294-2272-2 $9.95; 10/pk 0-8294-2319-2 $49.95
In Raising Kids Who Will Make a Difference, mother, counselor, and family-life educator Susan Vogt guides parents and communities seeking to raise children who will make positive contributions to the world. With honesty, realism, and humor, Vogt presents successful parenting strategies and straight forward discussions on important issues such as care for others, materialism, global awareness, racism, substance abuse, and peacemaking.
Paperback 0-8294-1792-3 $13.95
189 Ways to Contact God by Marlene Halpin, O.P.—whose decades of work helping teach children to pray inspired the meditative prayer components of Finding God—provides 189 creative ideas to jump-start one's prayer life. Whether readers are new to prayer or have been praying regularly for years, this collection of practical tips will help them to pray.
Paperback 0-8294-1365-0 $10.95
The Ball of Red String is a guided meditation for children written by Marlene Halpin, O.P., a Finding God contributor and one of today's foremost leaders in teaching children to pray. Through this simple, engaging, and imaginative reflection, children visit Jesus and are gently encouraged to share their thoughts, feelings, and experiences with him in prayer. For children of all ages.
Paperback 0-8294-1139-9 $5.95
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