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Unleashed for Ministry Webinar
Sonja CorbittEven with the profusion of modern resources and training in Catholic ministry and formation today, parish leaders continue feel ineffective at overcoming the superficial lives of the people they lead. Is there a "key" to effective ministry and leadership? What are some of the Holy Spirit's own methods of ministry, training, and formation?In this webinar, author Sonja Corbitt will offer surprising yet powerful tools that can help parish leaders emulate the Holy Spirit in influencing those they lead in exponential, eternal ways and teach others to do the same.
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The Unsheltered Heart: Exploring the Spiritual Riches of Advent
Ronald Patrick Raab, C.S.C.Advent is a new beginning for all people. It is a time to awaken within us a deep desire Christ's presence and to awaken our hearts to God's faithfulness. Join Fr. Raab for an hour of guided reflection on how to prepare your own heart to be unsheltered, open, vulnerable, and free
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Teens and Chastity: Implementing the USCCB’s New Document, "Catechetical Formation in Chaste Living"
Everyone agrees that our young people need education in chastity, but few seem to know how to go about imparting that essential information to them. In Catechetical Formation for Chaste Living (USCCB, 2008), the US Bishops define chastity as the virtue that “directs our sexuality toward authentic love and away from using persons as objects for sexual pleasure” and offer a framework that will help young people to develop that virtue. In this webinar, Sister Kieran Sawyer will offer an approach to sexuality education that she believes corresponds to the core content of the Chaste Living document. Based on the acronym LIFE (love, infatuation,...
Everyone agrees that our young people need education in chastity, but few seem to know how to go about imparting that essential information to them. In Catechetical Formation for Chaste Living (USCCB, 2008), the US Bishops define chastity as the virtue that “directs our sexuality toward authentic love and away from using persons as objects for sexual pleasure” and offer a framework that will help young people to develop that virtue. In this webinar, Sister Kieran Sawyer will offer an approach to sexuality education that she believes corresponds to the core content of the Chaste Living document. Based on the acronym LIFE (love, infatuation, friendship, and exploitation), her approach has been used successfully with teens for many decades.
Vatican II and the Future of the Church
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Where Two or Three are Texting: Incarnation and Sacrament in a Virtual World
Jonathan F. Sullivan
The young people in our schools and parishes are increasingly citizens of a virtual world where they carry out many traditionally “physical” activities, including living out their faith! Other Christian communities are experimenting with “online church.” What is an "online church" and is it an option for Catholics? How does the "digital continent" influence the way we prepare young people and catechumens to receive the sacraments?This webinar will explore these questions and offer some avenues for appropriate use of digital technologies in living our faith.Jonathan F. Sullivan is the director of catechetical services fo...
The young people in our schools and parishes are increasingly citizens of a virtual world where they carry out many traditionally “physical” activities, including living out their faith! Other Christian communities are experimenting with “online church.” What is an "online church" and is it an option for Catholics? How does the "digital continent" influence the way we prepare young people and catechumens to receive the sacraments?This webinar will explore these questions and offer some avenues for appropriate use of digital technologies in living our faith.Jonathan F. Sullivan is the director of catechetical services for the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. He blogs on evangelization and catechesis at www.JonathanFSullivan.com.Presentations Slides and NotesCheck out Jonathan's blog for a complete list of notes and links from the presentation.He has also been kind enough to share his presentation on Slideshare:Where Two or Three are Texting: Incarnation & Sacrament in a Virtual World from Jonathan Sullivan
How to Make the Case for Catholicism
Brandon VogtBrandon Vogt, author of Why I Am Catholic (and You Should Be, Too), did not grow up Catholic. He chose to enter the Catholic Church in college, precisely when so many of his friends were heading in the other direction. Learn what drew him to Catholicism and how you can make the same case to others, especially atheists, agnostics, and the "spiritual but not religious."
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Webinar: On the Way of Catechesis: Highlights of History, Hope for Ministry
Dr. Jerry Baumbach
The Church’s catechetical witness burns as a fire across centuries and through lives of faithful service. We navigate the way ahead informed by this compelling history, which yields extraordinary witness along the way of catechesis.For this webinar, Dr. Jerry Baumbach will (1) explore some contemporary perspectives and four characteristics for advancing catechesis; (2) consider selected highlights from major eras of the Church’s catechetical history; and (3) reinforce our looking ahead as a breathing community of living faith, still emerging, developing, and inquiring.Indeed, our shared past informs our shared future for catechesis and the...
The Church’s catechetical witness burns as a fire across centuries and through lives of faithful service. We navigate the way ahead informed by this compelling history, which yields extraordinary witness along the way of catechesis.For this webinar, Dr. Jerry Baumbach will (1) explore some contemporary perspectives and four characteristics for advancing catechesis; (2) consider selected highlights from major eras of the Church’s catechetical history; and (3) reinforce our looking ahead as a breathing community of living faith, still emerging, developing, and inquiring.Indeed, our shared past informs our shared future for catechesis and the New Evangelization! Webinar Reflection Questions 1. How does your parish occupy a place of fellowship, discipleship, and hope for you? What image, person, practice, or term symbolizes this belonging?2. What motivates you to carry faithfully the Gospel from your life to that of another? What does Jesus call you to do and to become as your ministry continues?3. Whom do you rely on when discerning important matters of faith in your life? Why? How does prayer help to guide your discernment and reflection?4. How might “dying” and “rising” occasions of life mark your way as you live by faith each day?5. What scriptural passage informs your discernment and offers you hope as your ministry unfolds? Why this choice?
