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Catechist Stream: Essential Tools for Digital Catechesis (Episode 11)

Don’t be stressed out by tech! In Episode 11 of Sadlier’s weekly live Catechist Stream hosts Steve Botsford, Sadlier’s Senior Director of Digital Catechesis, and Deacon Matt...

Catechist Stream: National Eucharist Revival (Episode 20)

The National Eucharistic Revival, sponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, kicked off on June 19, 2022. The revival is a grassroots movement of...

Ideas for Making Catholic Ordinary Time Extraordinary

Though the word ordinary can connote something commonplace or dull, Ordinary Time is far from mundane! In this article, you'll discover how to make Ordinary Time an ...

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Helping Catholic Children Cope During Challenging Times

Often, educators, parents, and caregivers struggle with what they should say or share with young children when trauma or tragedy transpires. This can be especially difficult...

Palm Sunday Worksheet for Catholic Children

The season of Lent prepares us for the great celebration of Easter. One of the celebrations during the season of Lent is Palm Sunday. In this article, you will find a free...

Catholic Faith Formation Activities: Plan Multisensory Projects

We all experience the world in a multisensory way with the gifts of sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. Using a multisensory approach within your Catholic faith formation...

February Feast Days– Catholic Saints to Celebrate with Children

These stories of saints whose feast days are celebrated in the month of February are friends of God and our role models in faith. Their examples of holiness will inspire...

Supporting Family Catechesis at Home

A disruptive past year showed us the power of partnering with families for at home catechesis and providing meaningful resources to support family catechesis at home. This...

Putting Amoris Laetitia Into Practice: 3 Pillars of Catholic Family Life

This is the final post in a series of articles invites families to put Amoris Laetitia into practice in their family life in honor of the Year of Amoris Laetitia Family...

Putting Amoris Laetitia into Practice: Marriage is a Process, Not a Perfect Picture

This is the second post in a series of articles inviting families to put Amoris Laetitia into practice in their family life in honor of the Year of Amoris Laetitia Family...

Virtual Learning for Catechesis in a Post-Pandemic World

Catholic schools and parishes around the country responded with creativity and flexibility to restrictions limiting in-person gatherings and classes. As restrictions ease and...

The Pentecost Story Activity for Catholic Kids

Download and share Sadlier’s The Pentecost StoryActivity with your primary students in anticipation of the Feast of Pentecost.

Now STREAM-ing: A Catholic Interdisciplinary Approach to Learning

STREAM is an acronym for a uniquely Catholic interdisciplinary approach. In this acronym, each letter stands for a discipline: S – science; T – technology; R – religion; E –...

The Year Amoris Laetitia Family Printable Resources

To mark the fifth anniversary of the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia on love in the family, Pope Francis announced a year dedicated to families. This year will...

The New General Directory for Catechesis: The Art of Accompaniment

This is the second blog post in a four-part series dedicated to evangelizing catechesis: a key theme of the revised General Directory for Catechesis. See the first post on ...

Remote Teaching and Distance Learning in Catechesis

Once considered futuristic, distance learning in catechesis is suddenly the new minimum operating standard. In the last several months, parishes all over the country have had...

The New Directory for Catechesis: Actions of Encounter

The highly anticipated new Directory for Catechesis was released June 25, 2020. A key theme of the document is “evangelizing” or “kerygmatic” catechesis. This article begins...

Popular Saints for Kids– Saint Joan of Arc

Feast Days provide catechists, teachers, and parents with a great opportunity to introduce children to Catholic saints. In this article, we'll explore another popular saint...

Popular Saints for Kids– Saint Philip Neri

Feast Days provide catechists and parents with a wonderful opportunity to introduce children to Catholic saints. In this article, you’ll discover a short biography and free ...

Ideas to Support Encountering Christ in Catholic Faith Formation

We all know that the purpose of catechesis is to help introduce students to the person of Jesus Christ, and then, help invite them into relationship with him, and...

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