Professional Development Webinar Recordings

It’s not always easy to speak about racism, race, and culture within the context of our faith. It is sometimes easier to stay silent, especially in our politicized environment. However, silence can hurt our chances of truly learning about the lived experiences of our brothers and sisters in the peripheries. Jesus taught us about loving our neighbor, feeding the hungry, and forgiving multiple times. Join Cynthia Psencik, director of the office of youth ministry for the Archdiocese of New York, and Armando Cervantes, director of youth and young adults and interim director of Hispanic ministry for the Diocese of Orange, as they discuss and share how authentic dialogue can help us make the changes needed in our communities.

We all recognize the call to carry out the New Evangelization in the Catholic Church today, but what does that really require? You might be asking yourself:What forms of evangelization will really work today? Am I capable of carrying these things out? Do we have enough resources in our parish to even create a thriving church? \nIt's easy to get overwhelmed. Everywhere you turn today, we hear the doom and gloom about our Church's dropping numbers. It's easy to overlook the positive. There are, right now, a number of people showing a new approach to ministry. These leaders are showing new and simple ways to create evangelizing ministries. \n\nUsing strategies and stories from his book To Heal, Proclaim, and Teach, Jared Dees offers ten highly practical and easy-to-implement approaches to evangelizing ministry that have the potential to transform your parish. These approaches are based on the work of thriving ministers and ministries seeing growth in the number of people who are passionate about the Catholic faith. \n\nYou will be able to immediately implement all of the strategies presented in this webinar. No strategic planning meetings or big programs will need to be scheduled. No special gifts in preaching or teaching are required. You will get simple, effective ways to start transforming yourself and your ministry today.

Also available on Vimeo.Faith Formation for Families with Six Sacred RulesFor centuries, the spiritual tradition of Saint Ignatius has contributed to the faith formation of thousands of priests and religious men and women. In recent decades, lay men and women have turned to this tradition for in their spiritual lives. In their new book, Six Sacred Rules for Families, Tim and Sue Muldoon open up this tradition to Catholic families seeking spiritual growth in the domestic church.Tim, a theologian who teaches at Boston College, and Sue, a therapist and religious educator, reflect on how Ignatius spirituality offers parents a way of looking at their vocation of raising faith-filled children. They draw six sacred rules from the Ignatian tradition that people in all walks of life—no matter what their current relationship to the Church may be—can use to cultivate a spiritual life both for themselves and their children.