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Breaking Open the Word
sessions are sold in monthly
packets as E-products. They are
sent to you as an attachment to
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The price you pay entitles you to reproduce
it for use within your own parish. You may
buy them one month at a time, or to save
20% you can buy an entire year at one
time. They will be sent every other month.
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sessions are sold in monthly
packets as E-products. They are
sent to you as an attachment to
e-mail.
The price you pay entitles you to reproduce
it for use within your own parish. You may
buy them one month at a time, or to save
20% you can buy an entire year at one
time. They will be sent every other month.
Click here to find it fast.
| Use this resource for parish meetings, youth ministry, school or religious ed classes, adult education, small church communities, or (and it was designed for this purpose) The RCIA |
Doctrinal Catechesis Sessions
are sold as E-products. They are
sent to you as an attachment to
e-mail. You have them on your computer
and may use them as needed year after year.
You only pay for them once. You may buy
them one session at a time, or to save 20%
you can buy the entire collection.
Click here to find it fast.
are sold as E-products. They are
sent to you as an attachment to
e-mail. You have them on your computer
and may use them as needed year after year.
You only pay for them once. You may buy
them one session at a time, or to save 20%
you can buy the entire collection.
Click here to find it fast.
| ...Connect... Consult the Scope and Sequence to select the doctrinal topics that best connect to the week's Sunday readings and whole liturgy. Click here to go to the Scope & Sequence. + Then use the Connecting Statements provided by Mary to link the Word with the Doctrine. |
Begin...
Breaking Open
the Word.
Mary has written
an outstanding
weekly resource
for this purpose.
About 30 minutes.
Click here to see a
sample.
Breaking Open
the Word.
Mary has written
an outstanding
weekly resource
for this purpose.
About 30 minutes.
Click here to see a
sample.
| ...Continue Doctrinal Catechesis Sessions. Mary has written a series of 40 lovely adult learning sessions. About 90 minutes Click here to see a sample. |
| Correlations |
| The scope and sequence for Faith, Life & Creed is comprehensive and systematic. All areas of Catholic belief and lifestyle, Catholic ritual and practice, are presented with clarity and fidelity. Go to the full scope & sequence here. See all the correlations. It is completely correlated with
Use Growing Faith booklets to support and expand the learning. Growing Faith presents a summary of the entire Catechism, in plain English or Spanish, with an Imprimatur. See more about Growing Faith here. Read the very important overview of Faith, Life & Creed. Click here to open it as a PDF. FREE samples. Click here. We're so sure you'll love this resource, we're going to give you your first several sessions at no cost. Try it for a couple of weeks. Let your catechists use Mary's invaluable resource. |
| Click here to see the Overview of Faith, Life & Creed |
| Reviews See what leaders in the RICA have to say about Faith, Life & Creed |
| Two-and-a-half steps Step 1: Liturgy Mary discovered the secret to holding in balance the complete coverage of doctrine and the varied, grace-filled lives of the candidates and catechumens is to use the Sunday liturgy as the starting point. Faith, Life & Creed provides a Breaking Open the Word session for every Sunday of the year. Through these sessions, the catechist reflects with the catechumens and candidates the doctrine of the church that flows from the celebration of the liturgy over the course of a complete liturgical year. Half-step: Connection Every celebration of the liturgy is an encounter with Christ. And every encounter with Christ stirs up questions of faith and belief within us. Faith, Life, & Creed provides several examples of possible teachings that might respond to the questions raised in your session. And it provides a simple, clear connecting statement that ties the experience of the catechumens and candidates directly to the teaching of the church. It couldn’t be simpler! Step 2: Catechesis Faith, Life, & Creed provides forty possible easy-to-use doctrinal sessions that flow naturally from the celebration of the liturgy and the liturgical year. Each session has enough solid material for two hours of teaching. But what if your sessions are shorter than that? No problem. The material is easily adaptable to whatever length you need. Each doctrinal session is keyed to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. And Faith, Life, & Creed provides helpful resource handouts—with complete copying permission—for your catechumens and candidates. |
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| "An excellent curriculum for RCIA programs." —Dr. Thomas Groom Read his entire review. "Provides all you need in an online resource that is faithful and creative." —Rev. Paul Turner Read his entire review. "Well thought out, well prepared set of materials..." —Sr Kate Dooley OP Read her entire review. |
Four huge benefits for your RCIA process
1. Faith, Life, & Creed makes preparation a snap! Everything the busy catechist needs is included right in the material.
2. Faith, Life, & Creed is designed with conversion in mind. Catechists don’t have to struggle with having to do a lot of lecture-style teaching while never
quite getting to the faith-sharing, life-changing aspects of a gradual conversion process.
3. Faith, Life, & Creed is complete. And when we say complete, we mean complete! The resource is thoroughly researched and is based not just on the
Catechism of the Catholic Church but on all the foundational documents of the church—both liturgical and doctrinal. Your catechists never have to worry that they
might be missing something important.
4. Faith, Life, & Creed is completely field-tested. This process has been put through the most important test possible—weekly use for three years in a parish
setting with catechists just like yours. And they’ve seen it work. The Faith, Life, & Creed methodology has transformed the lives of not only the catechumens and
candidates where it has been used, but also the lives of the catechists themselves. It just plain works!
1. Faith, Life, & Creed makes preparation a snap! Everything the busy catechist needs is included right in the material.
2. Faith, Life, & Creed is designed with conversion in mind. Catechists don’t have to struggle with having to do a lot of lecture-style teaching while never
quite getting to the faith-sharing, life-changing aspects of a gradual conversion process.
3. Faith, Life, & Creed is complete. And when we say complete, we mean complete! The resource is thoroughly researched and is based not just on the
Catechism of the Catholic Church but on all the foundational documents of the church—both liturgical and doctrinal. Your catechists never have to worry that they
might be missing something important.
4. Faith, Life, & Creed is completely field-tested. This process has been put through the most important test possible—weekly use for three years in a parish
setting with catechists just like yours. And they’ve seen it work. The Faith, Life, & Creed methodology has transformed the lives of not only the catechumens and
candidates where it has been used, but also the lives of the catechists themselves. It just plain works!
