Want to learn how to introduce Catechesis of the Good Shepherd to your kids at home? Here’s my background: Over the past year I’ve shared about our family’s home atrium on Instagram (part 1 and part 2) and in my Holy Labor newsletter (here). After I completed Level I training in the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (CGS), I felt drawn to offer a version of this Montessori-based method of faith formation to my own children—as I hope to help start an atrium in our parish one day, too. Turns out the pandemic brought me that unexpected opportunity as our kids were home all the time! Over the past two years, I’ve been introducing our kids to the beauty of CGS, making materials, and learning about the joys (and challenges) of being a catechist for one’s own children. Readers have asked me to share about our experience of building a home atrium, so I wanted to compile this collection of ideas and resources that might help others. A few important notes before we … [Read more...] about Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: our home atrium
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faith formation at home: 4 favorite resources
The sign-up sheet from church stared at me for months while I hemmed and hawed. What was the best day and time to pick for their religious education classes? Which one of us would drive and pick up? How would we fit it into the rest of the weekly calendar? Nothing worked perfectly. We talked ourselves into one option. Then another. Frustrated, I picked two class times and scribbled out a check. Then one Sunday morning, before I dropped off the registration forms, I pulled everything out of the envelope again. Nope, I thought. This doesn't feel right. We're not cramming faith formation in as one-more-thing, one-more-pickup-and-drop-off. We're doing it at home. . . . Here is the embarrassed admission of the theologically-trained mother: I am terrified to be the primary educator of my kids' faith formation, as the Catechism so beautifully puts it. I am scared because I know how frightfully important this is. It is the ultimate truth, the faith that defines my life and … [Read more...] about faith formation at home: 4 favorite resources
