Format : Octavo
SKU: GI.G-4807
An aid to preparing meaningful, prayerful children’s non-eucharistic liturgies. Ideas on how to prepare the children and worship space, organize processions, and incorporate music—plus checklists. “Order of Worship†section resembles Sacramentary for easy use by the presider and includes music suggestions, citations to Roman Missal and alternative prayers. Homily and mystagogy suggestions also included.
SKU: GI.G-017171
We, the Church, are to welcome and invite those children who have not yet been baptized, have come to an age of understanding, and are of catechetical age to be a part of the process of faith formation. This manual encourages directors of faith formation and catechists to be creative and to draw on their own faith experiences as they prepare children to receive the sacraments of initiation through the RCIA as adapted for children. The 25 sessions in this resource offer a variety of ways to explore each topic as part of a continuous and ongoing process, including gathering prayers, scripture readings, games or icebreakers, hands-on activities, reflective responses by the participants, and closing prayer rituals. The enclosed CD-ROM contains all of the handouts, worksheets, and letters to parents found on the printed pages of this book, making this a convenient, easy-to-use resource for RCIA ministers, directors of faith formation, and catechists alike.
SKU: GI.G-10619B
Save when you purchase all three volumes of Children of the Light!  Volume 1: The 25 sessions in this resource offer a variety of ways to explore each topic as part of a continual and ongoing process, including gathering prayers, scripture readings, games or icebreakers, hands-on activities, reflective responses by the participants, and closing prayer rituals. Includes a CD-ROM with all handouts, letters, and worksheets.  Volume 2: This second volume of contains 28 more sessions that build on the children’s evolving faith formation first explored in the precatechumenate period and developed in the first volume. Includes a CD-ROM with all handouts, letters, and worksheets.  Volume 3: Volume 3 provides rich, interactive sessions for the Period of Purification and Enlightenment and the Period of Mystagogy as children prepare for and receive the sacraments of initiation through the RCIA as adapted for children. It offers eleven core sessions, two retreat formats (a Day Retreat to Prepare for the Rite of Election and a Lenten Day of Reflection) plus an additional session on the sacrament of reconciliation.  This volume includes a code to access downloadable PDFs of handouts, worksheets, and a letter home for each session.
SKU: GI.G-017166
This second volume of the Children of the Light resource builds on the children’s evolving faith formation first explored in the precatechumenate period and developed in the first volume. These 28 sessions offer ways to explore each topic as part of a continuous and ongoing process, including gathering prayers, scripture readings, games or icebreakers, hands-on activities, reflective responses by the participants, and closing prayer rituals. Each session begins with a summary of its purpose, a brief section of catechist formation, and ideas for setting the environment. A template for a letter home is also provided for each session. An optional “Remembering Back†section is included for some of the sessions to provide an introduction to the experience of mystagogy. The enclosed CD-ROM contains all of the handouts, worksheets, and letters to parents found on the printed pages of the book, making this a convenient, easy-to-use resource for RCIA ministers, directors of faith formation, and catechists alike. .
SKU: GI.G-017264
UPC: 641151172644. English.
Catholic Press Association Book Awards Winner -- Third Place, Liturgy category! If you have ever been called on to lead prayer at a parish meeting or event, this book is for you! Included inside are thirty-seven complete prayer services for the many occasions that occur in the life of the parish community. Inside you'll find prayers for opening and closing meetings, seasonal reconciliation and penitential services‚ embarking on a parish trip‚ blessing of pets‚ Christmas Vigil/Las Posadas‚ gatherings of liturgical ministers‚ volunteer appreciation‚ blessing Easter foods‚ welcoming new families‚ seasonal blessings of parish meals, and more, plus appropriate music suggestions for each service. The book and the included CD-ROM provide all necessary leader's texts and easily reproducible assembly sheets.
SKU: GI.G-9252
UPC: 785147925293. English. Text Source: Eucharistic Prayer for Masses with Children II, Revised Order of Mass 2010.
In 1984, Marty Haugen released his Mass of Creation. For the next thirty years it enjoyed the distinction of being perhaps the most performed mass setting in Roman Catholic worship. Now, more than five years after the release of the revised Order of Mass 2010, the revised edition of Mass of Creation has once again surfaced as the most popular setting in the GIA catalog. In response to its popularity, Marty has crafted two eucharistic prayer settings: Eucharistic Prayer III (with five varied prefaces) and Eucharistic Prayer II for Children, complete with all the additional acclamations.
SKU: GI.001167
UPC: 641151011677. English.
Great to give to parish groups or organizations, faith-sharing groups, children in religious education programs or schools to take home, all parishioners as a bulletin stuffer on Christ the King Sunday or the First Sunday of Advent, Catechumens and candidates, or to teachers to use as a prayer in class. Use this prayer to begin parish meetings, gatherings or group activities during Advent, keep on hand in meeting rooms and offices, use for group prayer before meals during Advent or as a prayer for lighting the Advent wreath in a classroom or home or as a reminder to folks of the weekly reading from the Bible in the bulletin. Mail to parishioners with newsletters and schedules 5.5 x 8.5.
