Doctrinal Focus

Human Person and Family

  • Jesus wants us to share our good things with others (CCC. 1926)

General Articles

  • Family Advent Customs | Helen McLoughlin [The Liturgical Press St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, 2003]
    Advent is the beginning of the new liturgical year. It is a season of spiritual preparation, marked by eager longing for the coming of the Saviour through grace at Christmas, and for His second and final coming. It is also an ideal time to esta
  • The Stations of the Cross and their Relation to Family Life | Joseph A. Breig [Henry Regnery Company, 1959]
    THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS AND THEIR RELATION TO FAMILY LIFE
  • Making Bread | Catherine Fournier [Domestic Church Communications Ltd., 2001]
    We are asked to fast and abstain during Lent as penance and sacrifice.
  • One Bread, One Body | St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe [Presentation Ministries., 2002]
    Daily Scripture reflection from America.
  • Evangelization Through the Family: in Faith, Hope and Love | A deep article on the resurrection and the universe. [Msgr. Peter Elliott, 1999]
    Looking at the family as a means to propagate Catholic Teaching
  • One Bread One Body, Daily Teaching | Presentation Ministries, Inc. [Presentation Ministries, Inc., 2003]
    Daily Scripture reflection from America.
  • For Our Home and Family | - [kwl.com.au, 0]
    A prayer for our Home and Family

Blackline Masters / Activity Sheets

  • Puppet pattern 25
    Pattern: Jesus, Basket of bread and fish.
    Patterns can be used as
    * Felt board figures
    * Finger Puppets (felt, fabric)
    * Peg Figures (felt, laminated)
    * Colored O.H.T.s (used with adult supervision).
    The above are suggestions for the use of the Level 2a Patterns. Their applications are as diverse as the creativity & imagination of those using them.
  • Puppet pattern 25 (continued)
    Pattern: Crowd.
    Patterns can be used as
    * Felt board figures
    * Finger Puppets (felt, fabric)
    * Peg Figures (felt, laminated)
    * Colored O.H.T.s (used with adult supervision).
    The above are suggestions for the use of the Level 2a Patterns. Their applications are as diverse as the creativity & imagination of those using them.

Links

  • Family
    Links to resources related to family.
  • Family, Marriage, Relationships
    Catholic Church teaching on Family, Marriage and Relationships as listed on the Melburne Archdiocese web site.
  • Marriage & Family
    Deals with Marriage from a Catholic perspective
  • The Signs of Bread and Wine
    Good analysis of the Catholic understanding of the Eucharist, related to its symbols, drawing on the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and contrasting it with Protestant theology.

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