Jennifer Galvin's activity books continue to grow in popularity. This latest one branches out to include holidays that would be found in parochial school calendars. My Catholic School Holiday Activity Book incorporates both secular and religious holidays. Fun and entertaining word finds, crossword puzzles, color-by-number puzzles, crack-the-code puzzles, and so on, will all enable children to learn the religion behind certain holidays and just have fun on others. Parents, parochial school teachers, and CCD and Sunday school teachers will all find this useful and will be happy to add this volume to their collection. Some of the holidays included are Columbus Day, St. Francis of Assisi, Election Day, the First Day of Winter, Thanksgiving, President's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, Mother's Day, and the Crowning of Mary. +

A book full of fun activities that takes kids on a journey from Ash Wednesday through Pentecost.

Presents over 175 Bible stories, accompanied by prayer suggestions, references to where the story appears in Catholic liturgy, suggestions for family activities related to the story, and quotations.

A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati’s The Catholic School, the winner of Italy’s most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy. Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion were seen as under threat. It is this environment, the halls of San Leone Magno in the late 1960s and the 1970s, that Edoardo Albinati takes as his subject. His experience at the school, reflections on his adolescence, and thoughts on the forces that produced contemporary Italy are painstakingly and thoughtfully rendered, producing a remarkable blend of memoir, coming-of-age novel, and true-crime story. Along with indelible portraits of his teachers and fellow classmates—the charming Arbus, the literature teacher Cosmos, and his only Fascist friend, Max—Albinati also gives us his nuanced reflections on the legacy of abuse, the Italian bourgeoisie, and the relationship between sex, violence, and masculinity.

A new examination of how and why American religious parents seek to pass on religion to their children The most important influence shaping the religious and spiritual lives of children, youth, and teenagers is their parents. A myriad of studies show that the parents of American youth play the leading role in shaping the character of their religious and spiritual lives, even well after they leave home and often for the rest of their lives. We know a lot about the importance of parents in faith transmission. However we know much less about the actual beliefs, feelings, and activities of the parents themselves, what Christian Smith and Amy Adamczyk call the "intergenerational transmission of religious faith and practice." To address that gap, this book reports the findings of a new national study of religious parents in the United States. The findings and conclusions in Handing Down the Faith are based on 215 in-depth, personal interviews with religious parents from many traditions and different parts of the country, and sophisticated analyses of two nationally representative surveys of American parents about their religious parenting. Handing Down the Faith explores the background beliefs informing how and why religious parents seek to pass on religion to their children; examines how parenting styles interact with parent religiousness to shape effective religious transmission; shows how parents have been influenced by their experiences as children influenced by their own parents; reveals how religious parents view their congregations and what they most seek out in a local church, synagogue, temple, or mosque; explores the experiences and outlooks of immigrant parents including Latino Catholics, East Asian Buddhists, South Asian Muslims, and Indian Hindus. Smith and Adamczyk step back to consider how American religion has transformed over the last 100 years and to explain why parents today shoulder such a huge responsibility in transmitting religious faith and practice to their children. The book is rich in empirical evidence and unique in many of the topics it explores and explains, providing a variety of sometimes counterintuitive findings that will interest scholars of religion, social scientists interested in the family, parenting, and socialization; clergy and religious educators and leaders; and religious parents themselves.

The prayers in this collection have been selected to reflect the world andoncerns of young children. They comprise a mixture of familiar traditionalaterial, new prayers and blessings, and paraphrases of some Bible prayers.

This Bible activity book introduces preschoolers and kindergarteners to 17 beloved Bible stories accompanied by more than 100 fun yet challenging activities. Some activities even come with stickers! This activity book also includes Bible references with every story for further reading with the child.ƒ‚‚ Activities include... Word searches Puzzles Crosswords Stickers And more! Vibrant, imaginative illustrations bring each page to life. Following the Great Adventure Bible format, in accordance with Catholic theology and Church Doctrine, this activity bookƒ‚‚provides content that is authentically Catholic. By engaging with Bible stories while they play, children will love to learn and learn to love God's glorious plan for salvation history.

With humor and a prayerful spirit, Jeanne Hunt taps into her experience and creativity as mother, grandmother, catechist, artist, and writer to show us in easy and practical ways how to look deeper at these ordinary things surrounding us in order to enter into the sacred way. She encourages parents and grandparents, teachers, and religious educators to use this as a handy resource for celebrating in your home and classroom settings the seasons and special people of the calendar year and the church's liturgical year. She offers hundreds of activities, rituals, and prayers to make living our faith tangible, spiritually enriching--and fun! Activities include a New Year's campout, morning prayer for Christian Unity week, a Lent poor box, an Emmaus walk, a Pentecost meal, an All Saints' festival, a St. John the Baptist Advent wreath--and many more.

Add The Advent Storybook to your family holiday traditions and enjoy the rich images and thoughtful retellings of ancient stories that feature God's recurring, faithful promise to rescue us. A simple question at the end of each story helps readers engage in understanding the bigger story God wants us all to know--the good news of Jesus coming to save us. Parents and children alike will delight in the biblical messages of joy, hope, and peace every day as they look forward to celebrating Jesus' birth.

My First Catholic Bible Stories is an authentically Catholic board book filled with 15 favorite Bible stories to introduce little Catholics to the God who loves them. Crafted with playful children in mind, this sturdy book is created to be passed down and loved by many young Catholics. With big hearts and wide eyes, little ones will see in vibrant color God's glorious plan for salvation history for the very first time. Integrated with The Great Adventure Bible Timeline Learning System, children will be able to see the different periods of salvation history in a fun, color-coded system. All within a beautiful toddler board book. Written in simple language with engaging illustrations, this book is an excellent first step to forming little ones in the Catholic Faith.