St. Mary's Parish in Waverly, IA, offers you a copy of the covenant learners and parish ministers make with each other about faith formation.
Being a learning community is an essential practice and mindset at the heart of being a faith community. How does your community fare?
A sample process to guide a parish's evaluation of faith formation efforts with a focus on whole community.
This article explores the relationship between Catholic parishes and secular culture in order to find new meeting ground for cooperation in faith formation.
Hospitality as an antidote for those losing their religion. • By Denise Utter
This sample info booklet was shared by Marianne Slattery, St. Noel Parish, Willoughby Hills, Ohio. The information was packaged into a small booklet with one learning session outline per page.
There are so many options out there now for a mission trip or service trip that we might get discouraged trying to figure out what is best for our parish or school. Having tried several, I offer some suggestions on what would make this a powerful experience that will strengthen your catechetical efforts and build a foundation for young people in your setting. • By Jane Angha
A 4 page article that highlights the who, why, what, where, and when of lifelong learning.
This journal article describes the meaning of the "culture of encounter" to which Pope Francis has called us. It reflects on the implications for lifelong faith formation in the parish in both method and content. • By Joan Weber
Do those you serve themselves become servants? A servant leader is a servant listener.
Ten pastoral implications of the Synod on the Word.
For us in catechetical and pastoral ministry, we must remember this simple truth about how human beings learn and grow. The story has a place of great prominence.
Hospitality and creation are deeply intertwined. Without hospitality there would be no churches, no friendships, no marriages, no children. • By Jim Merhaut
A close look at Acts of the Apostles to answer the question, "What is the Church?" • By Ronald D. Witherup SS
An overview of the Acts of the Apostles. • By William S. Kurz SJ
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