December 7, 2009 - Volume 2, Number 15
Resources Featured
on the Catholic Faith Education Blog |
§ Advent Family Activities on the Web site of the Diocese of Ogdensburg. Read more...
§ Advent Calendar with a daily "Thought" , Scripture passage, Prayers, and poetry extract. Read more...
§ A collection of thousands of images on biblical themes from Bible cards and books. Read more...
§ Video: Church History in 4 minutes
§ sermons4kids.com offers a fairly large selection of coloring pages. Read more...
§ One Pair of Hands - Music Video
§ Michael Falk Art Gallery - Stories from the Bible. Read more...
§ BibleMap.org allows you to select a book and chapter in the Bible, read the text and see geographical locations mentioned in that chapter. Read more...
Technology
and Religious Education |
§ Photo Peach – This online application allows you to create slideshows with captions for each image and add background music. You can even insert multiple choice questions on the images. You can then also embed the slide show in your own blog or Website. See below for an example.
Bible Posters - Isaiah on PhotoPeach - The images in the slide shows below are from our collection of
free Bible posters downloadable here: http://www.4catholiceducators.com/bible_posters_archive.htm
Useful Resources on Saints and Feast Days |
Resources for feast days in November:
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Advent Resources
Advent: General | Advent: General 2 | Advent: Meaning | Advent Coloring Pages | Advent Calendars | Advent Wreaths & Crafts | Jesse Tree | Prayers of Advent | Advent & Christmas Clipart | Advent Site Reviews
Christmas Resources
Background articles and commentaries, homilies, children's stories, art, clipart, videos and other resources on the Mass readings for upcoming Sundays:
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Words
of Wisdom Posters |
Scripture
Posters |
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness—on them light has shined. --Isaiah 9.2 |
Also see Bible Verses Cards, Scripture Clipart Cards and Wisdom of Saints Posters
Articles
Online |
§ The Holy Family by James Martin, Catholic Update
JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH! Who could be more familiar to us? Yet there is actually little that we know of the activities of the Holy Family in the years before Jesus’ public ministry. The stories of this famous family, though, appear in the Bible for a reason. So what can the distinctive lives, experiences and spiritualities of the members of the Holy Family teach us?
§ Teach our faith with the Advent wreath by Michael John, Religion Teacher's Journal
§ Rediscover the Word made flesh in the Christmas gospels: Use the readings of the season to explore the mystery of Jesus’ birth by Janet Schaeffler, OP
§ Prayer with an Infallible Guarantee by Ron Rolheiser, OMI
"There are several places in the gospels where Jesus assures us that if we ask for something in his name we are guaranteed to receive it."
§ Christmas: A Season of Love by Reverend Mark Connolly, Spirituality for Today December 2009
§ The Stranger Child A Legend by Count Franz Pocci Spirituality for Today December 2009
§ Joseph, A Saint for the Perplexed by Louise Perrota - The Word Among Us, Advent 2009