Educating in Christ: A Practical Handbook for Developing the Catholic Faith from Childhood to Adolescence -- For Parents, Teachers, Catechists and School Administrators

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Children learn best when they begin with concrete materials which help them first of all to love the God who created these things for them, and then to reflect upon and grasp the meaning intellectually. Every moment, every gesture and every word in the Eucharist is connected in multiple ways to what has been revealed in the Bible. Educating in Christ provides a comprehensive outline of religious developmental stages, indicating activities appropriate for each of these from age three years to adolescence. So far, O’Shea has opened my eyes to quotidian ways to educate my non-school-age children within my own faith tradition. This means that a sacrament always has two dimensions – a sign that can be detected by the senses and a spiritual reality that is present simultaneously.

Balancing the natural and the supernatural, the theoretical and the practical, and combining the best of traditional methods with modern educational theory and psychology (with great prudence), Gerard O’Shea describes how a mystagogical catechesis lies at the heart of Catholic education.Book review: Educating in Christ: A Practical Handbook for Developing the Catholic Faith from Childhood to Adolescence-for Parents, Teachers, Catechists and School Administrators. Children are provided with a learning journal in which all of the materials for each level are identified by: a title; a picture; a short description and a brief doctrinal summary. Drawing on ideas from Maria Montessori and Sofia Cavalletti, it explains how to hand on the faith at different stages of a child's development.

As these charges are the responsibility of the recipient, please check the customs service in your destination country to see if charges are applicable.And he argues that Catholic schools are yet to take as seriously as they should “their role as communities [of faith], rather than mere functional organisations”. Oftentimes, we pick up books for one reason and discover more reasons why we’re reading them as we go along.

Mystagogy is the process whereby we start with a particular aspect of the Liturgy and find how it might be linked to some part of the Bible. e. re-sourcing and re-inspiring; stepping outside ourselves towards others, not just our current friends, and sharing the Gospel with them – evangelising and catechising; working with others, sharing gifts and challenges with them, i.In fact, the code envisions that munus docendi belongs not only to hierarchy but for all the faithful. We pay respect to the Elders past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today. Educating in Christ is a guide to such re-sourcing and re-inspiring, evangelising and catechising, collaborating and communing, planning and acting. Educating in Christ covers the essential practical and theoretical elements of religious education and catechetics for parents, catechists, teachers, and Catholic school administrators.