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Office of Evangelization and Catechesis
Office of Child and Youth Protection
Roman Catholic Diocese of
Springfield - Cape Girardeau
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Spring Parish Catechetical Leader Meetings
The spring parish catechetical leader meetings have been scheduled and we hope that you will be able to attend. It is always good to get together with fellow leaders and share ideas. We will also have a presentation.
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Monday, April 24
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Cape Girardeau
St. Mary Cathedral Parish
(Huel's Room of Parish Office Bldg)
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Gather at 8:30 a.m.
Meeting 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch included
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Monday, April 24
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Cape Girardeau
St. Vincent de Paul Parish
(upper meeting room of church)
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Gather at 6:00 p.m.
Meeting 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Dinner included |
Thursday, April 27
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Springfield
The Catholic Center
(Pallotti Center Meeting Room)
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Gather at 8:30 a.m.
Meeting 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch included |
Please contact Rosie Francka at rfrancka@dioscg.org or (417) 866-0841 let her know if you will be attending. For Cape Girardeau meetings please reply by April 20, for Springfield meeting reply by April 24. |
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Save the Date!!
2017 Catechist Institutes
Our keynote speaker this year will be our own
Bishop Edward Rice! It promises to be a wonderful day!
Also in Springfield, back by popular demand,
Oddwalk Minisitries will be performing for us.
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Saturday, October 14
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7:45 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.
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Holy Trinity Parish Center
Springfield
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1:30 - 4:00 p.m. |
St. Vincent de Paul Parish
Cape Girardeau
(upper meeting room) |
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Have your teachers gotten started?
26 Parishes and
22 Schools are well on their way to becoming certified.
Hurry! You don't want to be the last to enroll!
After the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis page opens, click on the image similar to this one to find information and forms for the new process.
If you are unable to print this information, please contact Rosie Francka at
rfrancka@dioscg.org or (417) 866-0841 to request copies of the booklet or forms.
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Reject inertia of 'Mannequin Challenge,' reach out to refugees,
po
pe says
"Don't abandon them"
Pope
Francis says in a video in reference to the poor, the marg
inalized and refugees. The message shows a busy street with
pe
ople doing a "Mannequin Challenge," the viral internet craze, and ignoring a
shiveri
ng man in the corner.
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What does the Church teach us about Immigrants and Refugees?
"Welcoming the stranger and those in flight is not one option among many in the Christian life. It is the very form of Christianity itself." - Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo
Here are some resources to help you understand what the Church teaches about migrant and refugee issues in light of the Gospel.
Click here
for resources, to assist in your journey of supporting immigrants, migrants and refugees.
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Parish and School Report of Completions
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Bulletin Announcement
Put this in your bulletin now! Registering now for Cycle 2, 2017
Adult Faith Formation and Catechist Certification courses online!
The Virtual Learning Community for Faith Formation (VLCFF) is a program of the Institute for Pastoral Initiatives at the University of Dayton. The VLCFF offers online adult religious education and faith formation courses in support of the Church's catechetical ministry. This means that you can deepen your faith at a time and place convenient to you via the internet.
The Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau partners with the VLCFF to extend these opportunities to all the faithful in our diocese at $50.00 per course. Courses may be taken for undergraduate credit
(for an additional fee) and courses qualify for credit in our diocesan Catechist Formation Process.
Registration: January 18 - Mar 1
Course Schedule & Listings: English Spanish
Classes held: Mar 5 - Apr 8
Sample Courses for Cycle 2 include
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- Catholic Beliefs
- Introduction to Catechesis
- Praying with children
- Principles for Addressing Diversity Issues in Youth Ministry (YM)
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- Bible Basics
- Images of Jesus
- Introduction to Christian Morality
- Sacraments
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You may apply for a diocesan Lay Endowment Grant for reimbursement upon successful completion of a course. This newsletter has more information about the grant.
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Diocesan Lay Endowment Grant
You may be eligible to apply for a Lay Endowment Grant to receive a reimbursement for course fees for the University of Dayton VLCFF. Click the links below for more information.
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The Spirituality of the Catechist: Feeding Your Soul, Growing in Faith, Sharing with Others
By Janet Schaeffler, OP
This moving and inspirational book invites catechists to put aside their lesson plans and teaching supplies every so often to discover how God continues to call them. With insights on various types of spirituality, plus discussion questions and suggested activities for spiritual growth, this book makes a perfect guide for catechist retreats or individual study, as it gives catechists new strength to accompany others on their faith journey.
If you would like to borrow this from our Resource Library contact Rosie Francka at
rfrancka@dioscg.org or (417) 866-0841.
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Keep your small groups going!
Live Lent!
Plan your 40-day challenge to LIVE LENT:
- Gather weekly in small groups
- Get inspired by the Sunday Gospel readings
- Explore Old Testament insights
- Reflect and pray each day of the week
- Take action in everyday life.
Written by RENEW's own Sister Terry Rickard, OP, Live Lent! helps Catholics make the most of this season of preparation and spiritual renewal.
Participants can use the journal format to create a personal 40-day Lenten plan with daily prompts. Parish small groups pray, delve into scripture and live Lent!
Read more
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Be Transformed: See and Share the
Sacraments in a Whole New Way
February 21, 2017
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
Want to make sure your parishioners are truly moved by the experience of Baptism, Confirmation, Communion, and the other Sacraments? Consider attending this live, online presentation.Presented by: Bob Schuchts, author of
Be Transformed.
Register here
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Cr
eative Curriculum Development
Tuesday, March 14, 2017 3-4 p.m. CST
Parish catechetical leaders and catechists: Join Shannon Chishol
m, MA to discover exciting and innovative strategies to help students find
God in all things through creative play. You'll leave the webinar with ideas for students of all ages.
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Teaching for Discipleship: The Call, The Challenge, The Difference
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 3-4 PM p.m. CDT
In this Sadlier/NCCL webinar, Mike Carotta presents why now is the time to emphasize the call of discipleship. He discusses the challenges involved in making what the Church calls "necessary adaptations" dynamics that distinguish Teaching for Discipleship from our past approaches and practices that can help us all keep heart.
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Prayers Around the Time of the Rite of Election
Download these beautiful prayers, written by Diana Macalintal.
- A Catechumen's Prayer Before the Rite of Election
- Prayer of a Catechumen Who Has Decided to Wait
- The Baptized's Prayer for the Catechumens
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Discover the Power of the Lenten RCIA Rites
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We all know that well-celebrated liturgy is powerful. Some of us came to faith because of a liturgy. All of us have been moved to deeper faith by liturgy. The lenten rites of the RCIA are designed to move your catechumens and candidates to a profound, enduring faith as they prepare to enter fully into the paschal mystery of Christ.
Well, they are designed that way, but do the rites really convert the catechumens? Every time? In a powerful way?
Here's the secret you need to know
- The RCIA rituals that we celebrate in Lent are extremely simple
- You don't need specialized training to plan and celebrate them well
- What you do need is a clear understanding of the purpose of the rite
- And some clear guidelines on how to let the rite do what it is intended to do
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TeamRCIA has created an audio course to give you everything you need to celebrate amazing, awesome Lenten rituals with your catechumens.
This course will be a series of five, one-hour conversations with Rita Ferrone and Nick Wagner on the rituals that RCIA teams are responsible for during Lent.
Click here for more details.
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The following is being provided as a courtesy for your information.
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Young Adult Evangelization & Ministry
Fr. Bill Edens, CSP
The first thing I tried turned out to be the most successful. I started an "Open Sanctuary" to which people of all ages were invited. It involved food, tours of the church, Praise and Adoration, and conviviality. It has evolved into a young adult event.
We now start with a discipleship talk from 7:00pm to 7:30pm (given by a member of the parish pastoral staff), followed by Praise and Adoration with live sacred music from 7:30pm to 8:30pm. This is followed by a visit to a local pub.
Read more....
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Ministry with GEN-Z and their Families
The Center for Ministry Development invites you to join us at the Blanchette Catholic
Center
in Crest Hill,
IL. for our 2017 workshop on Ministry with Gen Z and Their Families- There's an App for That. Just as we are getting used to the Millennials, along comes Generation Z, which includes youth born in the mid to late 1990's, mostly to Gen X parents. These young people are tech savvy, social innovators, and are anxious to create a customized way to belong and contribute. We can accompany this generation toward active discipleship by listening and responding.
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Videos: What is Lent
Catholic Relief Services has seven wonderful videos, most are only 2-3 minutes long, on the topic of "What is Lent." Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York does one and Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles does another. These videos could be used by your catechists in the classroom, or at a parent meeting, or Lenten Activity gathering.
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Rice Bowl App
In two weeks, the Church invites us as a People of God to once more encounter Lent, a time of spiritual growth through prayer, fasting and almsgiving. We are given forty days of opportunity to encounter ourselves, our neighbors and our God anew. And, on Easter Sunday, we encounter the Risen Christ-and the hope that the Resurrection brings.
Are you ready for this journey? CRS Rice Bowl wants to accompany you and your faith community throughout these forty days with stories, prayers, reflections and faith formation. Get started now by downloading our app and setting a daily reminder to pray with it each day.
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The Journey/El Camino
Announcing a new resource from Paulist Evangelization Ministries designed to help Catholics today deepen their personal relationship with Christ - it's a simple and direct way to encounter Jesus in our lives.
The main component of The Journey are the faith-sharing
groups which meet to reflect each week. Through these small groups, participants come to share their experiences of Jesus Christ with one another and grow together in their faith. Participant booklets are available in both English and Spanish for adults, and in English only for youth.
There are three Parts* in The Journey. In
Part 1, each session focuses on our personal encounter with Jesus. In
Part 2, participants reflect on what it means to belong to Jesus' community, the Church. In
Part 3, the sessions explore how w
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Lenten Resources from Paulist Evangelization Ministries
Help your parishioners participate more fully in the Sunday liturgy this coming Lent, with two easy-to-use, cost-effective Living the Eucharist resources:
Sunday Bulletin Inserts--just 5ยข each.
There is one Living the Eucharist Bulletin Insert for each Sunday during Lent. Each insert is one page, front and back, and includes:
- An engaging, thought-provoking lesson that helps parishioners learn about and love the Eucharist,
- Reflect, Act, and Pray suggestions to help parishioners understand and act on each week's lesson in their daily life.
- And, every insert is available in both English and Spanish.
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Living the Eucharist Mobile App 
Our newest resource features the popular Lenten daily devotional booklet From Exodus to Easter: My Daily Journey Through Lent. The app includes the full text of From Exodus to Easter, plus three how-to videos. The app and the videos are free to everyone. Individual parishioners who wish to download the full devotional pay just $4.99.
Learn More and Download the App
Also Available in Spanish
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First Things: Ongoing Catechist Recruitment
The recruitment of catechists is one of the most important responsibilities of a catechetical leader. It is an ongoing activity, always inviting individuals to find out more about being a catechist.
While many parishes focus their recruitment efforts in August and September, this is the time that all catechists should have already been recruited and have completed orientation, training and formation. Catechists will be ready to welcome the children, youth, adults and families into the various programs for faith formation.
Read more...
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Anatomy of a Developmental Relationship
Breaking Down the Components of Quality Relationships
As most people who work or live with young people can tell you, relationships are vitally important. That's something that's been confirmed by the research of Search Institute and others.
But it's really not enough to say that relationships matter. To really be effective, we need to get specific about the ways adults and peers interact with youth to help them learn, grow and thrive.
So Search institute has embarked on a major initiative to understand the qualities of relationships that contribute to positive youth development. We call developmental relationships. Click here for information you can pass on to your catechists and parents from the Search Institute.
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Encourage Prayer, Penance, and Good Works
Embrace Lent as a season of simple living and an opportunity to pray, do penance, and do good works in preparation for Easter. Explore and download Lenten resources for disciples of all ages.
Download free resources
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What are we doing at the Rite of Election?
Many RCIA teams and many more catechumens seem to not quite clearly grasp the reason that a Rite of Election is included in the initiation process. Many believe the purpose of the rite is to introduce the catechumens to the bishop.
Or, as an extension of that, to show the catechumens that they are joining the Catholic Church, which is made up of many, many parishes - not just their home parish.
Some seem to see the Rite of Election as the catechumens' final choice to be baptized - a grand public declaration that they have finally decided to sign up, literally.
None of these, however, are reasons we celebrate the Rite of Election. The reason we celebrate this ritual is given to us in the introduction to the rite....
read more
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Prepare Your Ash Wednesday Outreach
Ash Wednesday will be here in four weeks. Planning for Lent, Holy Week and Easter are well underway in most parishes. Many have observed and commented that blessed ashes are like a magnet which draws many Catholics, active and inactive, to Church. Ash Wednesday is a day that tugs at their deepest identity. ....
Read more
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GEMS: Adult Faith Formation Newsletter
The February 2017 issue of GEMS is now available.
As you read this issue you might say, "this is way beyond what one parish could do."
As you read, think about the adaptations or tweaks that you might be able to make.
As you read, don't miss the end which suggests some simpler possibilities that might be appropriate for you and your parish.
All the past issues of GEMS are archived at
www.janetschaeffler.com
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How Parents Pass on the Faith (and What We Can Do To Help)
I'm preparing for the workshop I'm giving at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress and I wanted to share one small piece of the message I plan to present. The workshop is focused on empowering parents as the primary religious educators of their children, or more specifically, as disciples and teachers.
So this begs the question: How, exactly, do parents best educate (or better: evangelize and catechize) their kids?
Here is what I realized in talking with people who cite their parents or grandparents as significant influences on their faith:
It wasn't what they said that mattered, it was what they did.
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Tracking Mary: Mysteries & Messages-Catholic Kidz Camp 2017
The Queen of Heaven Express is Leaving the Station! Discover how Mary
brings us closer to Jesus through the POWER of the Rosary. Mysteries and Messages are revealed at each stop. Experience the wonder of Our Lady of Lourdes, Ou
r Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Knock and Our Lady of Moun
t
Carmel. Union Station Skits, Full Steam Faith, Boxcar Bible, Gondola Games, Caboos
e Crafts, Switchback Snacks & Steam Whistle Music!
PLUS: All New Family Catechesis and much more are ALL INCLUDED!
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Vacation Bible School
The Pastoral Center announces their brand new VBS,
Message Received
. It's a great way to teach kids in your parish about how to be a disciple:
listening for and responding to God's call. And you'll all have a lot of fun doing so!
They are also offering our
EarthKeepers VBS for a second year. It focuses on Pope Francis' On Care for Our Common Home (Laudauto Si') and how our faith teaches us to care for our planet and everything on it.
If your community has never hosted a Vacation Bible School, maybe this is the year to start. Check out our free VBS: What, Why, How? resource to learn what it can do for your community and how easy it can be.
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