Due to my upraising (or lack there of in certain areas) I didn't get confirmed until I was 22 or so. As an adult I chose to make the Catholic Church my permenant home and a nun-friend (who was involved in Campus Ministries) gave me individual classes. I read through the CCC and we discussed the parts I didn't agree with or had problems with. She had a great sense of humor (needed to try and teach a disagreeable person like me) and gave me a wonderful blessing as my confirmation sponsor.
My plans for Dd#1 are not so simple, but hopefully will give her at least as good of a send off into the adult phase of her faith. I'll most likely have her keep a notebook on it. She'll be in CCD, but I haven't been super impressed with how much she's learned when she's gone (we put the kids in during sacrament years - Dave's preference). I got plans from this person and Elizabeth Foss' plans. It sounds like a lot of books, but we already own the items in black and I don't really expect to get through it all. Also, we're really focusing on religion this year and letting science & writing be a side-note rather than a real subject. I'm also just looking for a nice rounded smattering of the following:
Catechism
- Didache Series : Introduction to Catholicism: A Complete Course - she did this in 7th grade
- The Sacrament of Confirmation for Confirmation Candidates
- Confirmation Preparation for Young Catholics
- Baltimore Catechism No. 2
- Saint Patrick's Summer
- CCC to look items up as they surface
- A papal encyclical or 2. Any suggestions??
- Prove it! God (Amy Welborn) She did this series of books in 7th grade
- Prove it! Jesus (Amy Welborn)
- Prove it!Church (Amy Welborn)
- Prove it!Prayer (Amy Welborn)
- Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
- The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis) - 7th grade
- Boys to Men (Gray and Martin)
- A Philadelphia Catholic in King James' Court & *Optional : Study Guide
- Listen to Jeff Cavins CDs - Great Adventure
- - Listen to Scott Hahn's Salvation History
- The Joyful Mysteries of Life
- Rome Sweet Home (Hahn)
- Surprised By Truth (Madrid)
- This IS My Body (Shea)
- By What Authority? (Shea)
- Witness To Hope (Wiegel)
Church History
- Mrs. Carroll's History Sampler Series
- 2000 Years of Christian History - 7th grade
- A Life of Our Lord for Children (Marigold Hunt) - 6th grade
- Completely Christ's: The Radical Call of the Consecrated Life DVD
- Real Love (Bonacci)
- Dressing with Dignity
- LifeWork DVD: Finding God's Purpose in Your Life
- LifeWork: Finding Your Purpose in Life
- My Path to Heaven: A Young Person’s Retreat with Saint Ignatius (Fr. Geoffrey Bliss, S.J.), home retreat.
- Letters to A Young Catholic (George Weigel)
- Catholic Christianity (Peter Kreeft)
- Free article online - "How to Discern Elements of Your Personal Vocation" by Fr. Peter Ryan http://newmancentre.org/pages/ryanpeter.htm
- We own many of the vision books
- We're also purchasing several saint movies from Ignatius Press
- 30 hours of some kind of service outside of our home (this works out to around 1/wk during school)
- helping clean the church
- helping clean a house for someone who just had a baby
- visiting a nursing home, etc.
- Holy Hours of Eucharistic Adoration
- "Extra" Mass weekly
- Solo prayer each evening
- Stations of the Cross Fridays of Lent (we attempt this every year and fail -- maybe if it's an assignment we'll accomplish it.)
- Consecration to the Holy Spirit
- Continue to pray in front of the abortion clinic at least once a month
Dominum et Vivificantem - JPII's encyclical on the Holy Spirit. The first part is slow going but as you move on it bears a lot of fruit. We had to come up witha parish program for Confirmation and theis document was so helpful.
ReplyDeleteOh, Jenni -- THANK YOU so much for the suggestion!! That sounds GREAT!!
ReplyDeleteWe need one more encyclical and I think we'll be set for the year!