Our Maronite Pastors have received a comprehensive email for the 2022 Catechetical Sunday Celebration. Monsignor Georges El-Khalli, Eparchy Director of Religious Education, included many resources that have been adapted for our Maronite celebration. Please refer to your pastor.
Here are a few of them at this LINK including a Commissioning Ceremony, and a Catechist certificate.
New Catechetical Year (click on this link for more tips and resources)
The Evangelizing Catechist: A Webinar with Joe Paprocki Enjoy a recording of Joe Paprocki’s recent webinar, hosted by Julianne Stanz. Catechetical Sunday Find articles and prayers to help you celebrate and pray for the Church’s mission to teach the Gospel to all people. Three Ways to Turn Your Faith Formation Class into a Mini-Retreat Use class time to give the students an opportunity for stillness and quiet.
The Catholic Church in the United States has embarked upon a three-year Eucharistic Revival in hopes of rekindling within Catholics "a living relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist." Eucharistic Adoration Cards Encourage young people to have a conversation with Jesus in front of the Blessed Sacrament. Eucharist Resources Deepen your own understanding of the Eucharist to help young people do the same. Taking Children to Adoration Barb Gilman shares her experience taking third graders to Adoration. |
You can find all the resources here from the God With Us Online website. This is a Byzantine resource that can be used (except for the catechetical religion books). Our Maronite catechetical series is The Faith of the Mountain.
Also, the Roman Catholic Bishops' website has resources for Catechetical Sunday- click here-
Catechetical Sunday Resources click here
This year, the Church will celebrate Catechetical Sunday on September 20, 2020. The theme is: “I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you.” What is new this year is the Leadership In- stitute which was formed to assist the bishops in their responsibility for promoting Catholic mis- sions in the United States. Also new is more Catechetical Sunday Resources, such as articles, vide- os and podcasts, which will be available on an on-going basis throughout the academic year.Each one of us, by virtue of our baptism, is called to live our faith and to bear witness to the Gos- pel in our families, among our friends, and in our parish communities and society. To share in the Church's mission of Evangelization and Catechesis is to grow in our relationship with Jesus Christ and to hand on our precious faith to our youngsters. Catechetical Sunday is a wonderful opportuni- ty to reflect on the role that each person plays, by virtue of Baptism, in handing on the faith and being a witness to the Gospel. It is also an opportunity for us to rededicate ourselves to this mission as a community of faith.
It is in the family that the children are first catechized. Parents are the primary catechists of their children. They prepare the soil and plant the first seeds of faith. On Catechetical Sunday, not only do we highlight the work of catechists in our parish, but we also commend parents and guardians and encourage them to take seriously their role of making their home a place where faith is handed on to the next generation. This is why the rite of blessing of catechists used on Catechetical Sunday includes a blessing of parents and guardians.
This year, Catechetical Sunday Resources such as articles, videos and podcasts, will be available on an on-going basis throughout the academic year. We all, pastors, parents and catechists, should benefit from this availability. All you need to do is visit www.usccb.org, go to Leadership Institute and Catechetical Sunday 2020, then click on “Download Resources” and choose the article, the video or the podcasts of your choice.
Since the packet is in a pdf format, Adobe Acrobat is necessary to have in order to open these files. Should you need any help with respect to this electronic Catechetical Sunday packet, do not hesitate to contact me.
Wishing you a healthy, blessed and fruitful catechetical year, I am Sincerely yours in Christ,
Msgr. Georges Y. El-Khalli, Ph.D.
Eparchial Director of Religious Education
Our Lady of the Cedars of Lebanon Church
61 Rockwood Street | Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
T: 617-522-0225 | F: 617-522-0194
E: pastor@ourladyofthecedars.org | W: ourladyofthecedars.org
Catechetical Sunday Resources click here